Mr Tomás García Ferrari
Senior Lecturer (Computer Science), Convenor of the Bachelor of Design (BDes)
Qualifications: BGD SCDT Buenos Aires
Contact Details
Email: tomasgf@waikato.ac.nz
Room: G.G.17
Phone: +64 7 838 4793
Extension: 4793
Website: http://cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tomasgf
About Tomás
Tomás García Ferrari is a Senior Lecturer of Design at the University of Waikato. Previously, he held academic positions at the University of Otago (New Zealand), the Burg-Giebichenstein School of Art and Design (Germany) and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). He has delivered postgraduate courses in several institutions. He has given seminars and talks in international conferences and he has written articles, papers and books chapters on different areas of Design. He works as a professional Design consultant for companies and institutions in Latin America, Europe and New Zealand. Tomás has a Graphic Design degree and a postgraduate Specialisation in Communication Design Theory from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Research Interests
Interaction design; communication design; typography; design theory; complexity and design.
Teaching Commitments
Recent Publications
Dyer, M., Dyer, R., Weng, M. -H., Wu, S., Grey, T., Gleeson, R., & García Ferrari, T. (2019). Framework for soft and hard city infrastructures. Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Urban Design and Planning, Ahead of Print, 1-20. doi:10.1680/jurdp.19.00021
Garcia Ferrari, T., Hinze, A., & Bowen, J. (2018). An IoT for everyone: fact or fiction?. In 32nd British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Conference (BHCI 2018) (pp. 5 pages). Conference held Belfast, Ireland. doi:10.14236/ewic/HCI2018.97
Garcia Ferrari, T. (2018). Design futures: the role of design in a software society. In Unfrozen – A Design Research Reader by the Swiss Design Network (pp. 231-244). Swiss Design Network.
Garcia Ferrari, T. (2017). Design and the fourth industrial revolution. Dangers and opportunities for a mutating discipline. The Design Journal, 20(sup1), S2625-S2633. doi:10.1080/14606925.2017.1352774 Open Access version: https://hdl.handle.net/10289/12761