Niki D. Gallardo

Niki is a designer, artist, and researcher. Her current practice and research areas include designing for alternative futures, non-traditional narratives in contemporary media, environmental sustainability, and traditional and digital graphics using social-scientific and humanistic insights.

Her work encompasses world-building, visual, narrative, and speculative design. Having been born into a bicultural household, her interests connect individual experiences influenced by her heritage, our relationships with the natural environment, and the intersection between our inner and outer worlds.

Niki has a background across architecture, art, digital media, and social impact sectors. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and is a current Master of Fine Arts candidate in the Design department at the University of California, Davis. Her thesis research has been supported by the Dean's Graduate Summer Support Award and the Christina Eichler Bullock Sustainable Design Award.