Prof. Thomas Garvey |
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| updated July 23, 2011 | ||
 Thomas Garvey is Associate Professor and Director of the School of Industrial Design at Carleton University in Ottawa. He specializes in product development and design for extreme and minimal environments. His interest in small-scale living spaces grew out of his work in New York on space station interiors and led to doctoral studies at the University of Tokyo on the topic of housing and urban density. He became involved in hospital patient room design several years ago after joining the Global University Programs in Healthcare Architecture (GUPHA). The international organization looks at how to address the increasingly complex changes happening in hospitals worldwide, due to expanding and ageing populations.Garvey and his teams have garnered numerous awards and their prototypes have been presented at conferences and exhibits around the world, gathering praise from both the design and healthcare worlds. He holds a Bachelor of Industrial Design from Carleton University, a M.Sc. in Communications Design from Pratt Institute, and a Ph.D. in Architectural Planning from the University of Tokyo. |
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