In & Around Design: Ana Rita Morais

Ana Rita Morais is a Toronto-based academic, educator, and administrator. She is the Chair of the School of Design at George Brown College, and holds a doctorate from the Communication and Culture program at Ryerson University. She has devoted much of her academic career to investigating mobile media, including her SSHRC-funded research-creation doctoral project, me-dérive: toronto— an augmented reality counter-archive of Toronto’s historical urban environment. Ana Rita is the Principal Investigator on a multi-year NSERC-funded project in partnership with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, a member of the HXOUSE programming team, and a director on the board for The ArQuives. Her research has been widely funded, and disseminated at international conferences held at Oxford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Technical University of Berlin.