Dr. Carlos Fiorentino is an educator, researcher and designer with 20+ years of professional practice and 10+ years in academia. He teaches multiple subjects of design in the Department of Art & Design at the University of Alberta, and in Design Studies at MacEwan University. The focus of his research has been on design for sustainability and biocentered design, and more recently on biomimetics of structural colour. His work has been published in 60+ articles in refereed journals and book chapters and disseminated in international conferences and symposia. Carlos is co-founder of Biomimicry Alberta Regional Network. He has chaired the biomimicry workshops and lectures in the region since 2015. He is regular member of the jury to the Biomimicry Global Design Challenge and affiliated to the University of Alberta’s Sustainability Council and the Climate Change Coalition. He has been Advisor to the Education Sustainability Steering Committee at MacEwan University in 2016. Between 2010-2015 he introduced and taught the first interdisciplinary undergraduate course focused on Design for Sustainability in Human Ecology, University of Alberta. Carlos was born in La Plata, Argentina. He graduated as a Visual Communication Designer (Bdes VCD, 1994) from La Plata National University (UNLP), and later obtained his Master degree in VCD (MDes, 2008), and his Doctoral degree in Human Ecology (PhD, 2020), both at the University of Alberta, Canada.
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