FNDT-115

LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza (mixed race Indigenous Guarani-Spanish) architect, designer, researcher, and educator with extensive professional multidisciplinary practice in South America and Canada. Their work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action, embodying a commitment to sustainable and inclusive solutions.With special focus on land-based design, social innovation and sustainability their work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems. Their current research is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a doctoral fellowship, and it focuses on integrating emergent and re-emergent technologies into design practice and pedagogy to promote sustainable and equitable futures.Pat is a member of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability network (DESIS); the Design Justice Network; the American Computing Association (ACM); The Native American Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA); The Latin American Studies Association (LASA), among other professional networks. They teach courses in Design and Critical Studies at Emily Carr University; Pat has a Master in Interdisciplinary Design from ECU and they are currently a PhD candidate in Design and Social Context at RMIT University.

LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza (mixed race Indigenous Guarani-Spanish) architect, designer, researcher, and educator with extensive professional multidisciplinary practice in South America and Canada. Their work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action, embodying a commitment to sustainable and inclusive solutions.With special focus on land-based design, social innovation and sustainability their work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems. Their current research is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a doctoral fellowship, and it focuses on integrating emergent and re-emergent technologies into design practice and pedagogy to promote sustainable and equitable futures.Pat is a member of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability network (DESIS); the Design Justice Network; the American Computing Association (ACM); The Native American Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA); The Latin American Studies Association (LASA), among other professional networks. They teach courses in Design and Critical Studies at Emily Carr University; Pat has a Master in Interdisciplinary Design from ECU and they are currently a PhD candidate in Design and Social Context at RMIT University.

LatinX Paraguayan-Canadian Mestiza (mixed race Indigenous Guarani-Spanish) architect, designer, researcher, and educator with extensive professional multidisciplinary practice in South America and Canada. Their work stands at the intersection of systems thinking, service design and climate action, embodying a commitment to sustainable and inclusive solutions.With special focus on land-based design, social innovation and sustainability their work in industry includes architectural projects and a specialization in exhibit design, experiential design, visual communication-information design, placemaking, architectural urban signage and wayfinding programs for airports and transportation systems. Their current research is supported by the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with a doctoral fellowship, and it focuses on integrating emergent and re-emergent technologies into design practice and pedagogy to promote sustainable and equitable futures.Pat is a member of the Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability network (DESIS); the Design Justice Network; the American Computing Association (ACM); The Native American Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA); The Latin American Studies Association (LASA), among other professional networks. They teach courses in Design and Critical Studies at Emily Carr University; Pat has a Master in Interdisciplinary Design from ECU and they are currently a PhD candidate in Design and Social Context at RMIT University.

Mimi’s interdisciplinary work explores her interests in phenomenology and technologies of intuition through an embodied practice of walking and mapping and through works and installations that point to the existence of the animacy and agency of objects. The cross-cultural dialogue exemplified in her work suggests a pre-existing connection to the other-than-human worlds. It is her cosmological orientation, in other words, her Ojibwe/Métis worldview and the language that expresses it that predisposes her to be open to the reality of the spirit and life of objects and their ability to communicate across diverse thresholds.  

She is currently completing her research praxis PhD in Cultural Studies at Queen’s University on the metaphysics of Indigenous mapping. She continues to exhibit internationally with recent exhibitions in France, Germany and Tokyo and was included in the seminal exhibition, "On line" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2011.