Luigi Ferarra

Luigi Ferrara is a Registered Architect, a member of the Ontario Association of Architects and the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. He is the Director of the School of Design at George Brown College, and oversees the Institute without Boundaries. Luigi previously served as a principal of Ferrara Contreras Architects Inc., President and CEO of DXNet Inc., a network for design and innovation that redefined the practice of design using digital media and advanced computing and telecommunication platforms, Vice-President of the Design Exchange and in various architectural consulting roles at Stirling, Wilford Associates, Peter Turner Architects, Paul Reuber Architect and Russocki Zawadzki Architects. In addition to his roles as architect, designer, entrepreneur and educator, Luigi has curated exhibitions and authored books and catalogues for the University of Toronto, the Joseph D. Carrier Gallery, the Ontario Heritage Foundation, the Triennale of Milan, the Architectural Literacy Forum and the Design Exchange. Most recently he has written a second volume in the Canada Innovates series focusing on sustainable building design following on the first volume that covered digital creativity in Canada. In his role at Dxnet, Luigi founded Digifest, a festival for new media.