Dr. Carlos Fiorentino | Mount Royal University (original) (raw)

Dr. Carlos Fiorentino [PhD, MDes, University of Alberta, Canada; BDes UNLP, Argentina] is a Visual Communication Designer, design educator and researcher, with main interest on Design for Sustainability and Biomimicry. His current areas of research focus on biocentered design, biomimicry, and structural colour funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). He taught in the Department of Art & Design and Department of Human Ecology at the University of Alberta (2008-2022), in the Design Studies program at MacEwan University (2011-2022), and the Department of Applied Media at the Higher Colleges of Technology in Abu Dhabi, UAE (2022-2023). He is currently appointed as Assistant Professor of Information Design at Mount Royal University, Calgary, Canada.

In 2010 he introduced the first interdisciplinary undergraduate course focused on Design for Sustainability in Human Ecology, University of Alberta. He has disseminated his work contributing to book chapters, presenting in international conferences and symposia, and published in refereed journals. His professional and scholar activities have taken him to Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Germany, China, Australia, South America, the USA and across Canada.

His research on sustainability allowed him to be part of the Education for Sustainability Steering Committee (ESSC) for the Sustainability Advisory Committee (SAC) at Grant MacEwan University (2014-2015). He is co-founder of the Biomimicry Alberta regional network and the Design for Sustainability Research Group at the University of Alberta.

Carlos is co-founder (2004) and design consultant of Pix Design in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He has worked professionally in the visual communication design field for twenty five years.

He has collaborated in research projects involving humanities computing and Information design (2005-2013), like the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE).
Supervisors: Dr. Megan Strickfaden, Dr. Anne Bissonnette, Dr. Tomislav Terzin, and Susan Colberg

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