Ro Pérez Gayo is a designer, researcher, and educator whose work explores the political, affective, and relational dimensions of design within infrastructures, technologies, and governance systems. Grounded in queer and trans experience, her practice embraces friction, foregrounding the minor, often ignored interactions between bodies and systems. She approaches design as a method of positioning: engaging with complexity, contradiction, and complicity rather than resolving them. In design, institutional, and community contexts, she develops situated methodologies rooted in partial knowledge, affective attunement, and collective accountability. Their work resists certainty and consensus. Instead, Pérez Gayo calls upon design as a way to trouble the conditions of what is thinkable and livable, to reorient power, and to imagine otherwise—affirming it as a political and ethical practice of transformation.