Gabriele Ferri

Gabriele Ferri is an Assistant Professor in the department of Industrial Design at the Eindhoven University of Technology. Prior to joining TU/e, Gabriele worked at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, where he set up and directed the M.Sc. program in Digital Design. He has also held academic positions at Indiana University (USA) and the University of Bologna (Italy). Gabriele is interested in understanding how people hack, reappropriate, and reimagine technologies, particularly in community makerspaces and repair cafés. His research also focuses on the ethics and politics of design, challenging students to reflect on the long-term consequences of their creations. Gabriele draws on his expertise in Humanistic HCI, Interaction Criticism, Ethnography, Critical Design, and Narrative Semiotics to inform his work, which includes Research through Design on playfulness, urban spaces, interactive narrative, and design fiction. Gabriele has taught courses on design ethics, research methods, and interaction criticism.