Bio
Matt Ratto is Associate Dean, Research and a full Professor in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Dr. Ratto is also a faculty affiliate with the Climate Positive Energy Institute (CPE), the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society (SRI) and an SDG Fellow with the Sustainable Development Goals Institute (SDGs@UofT). He was awarded the Ontario Minister of College and Universities’ Award of Excellence in 2020, and has received two Canada Grand Challenge grants, Stars in Global health and Transition to Scale for his work on 3D printed prosthetics. He was the Bell Canada Usability Labs Chair in Human-Computer Interaction from 2018-2023 and the inaugural Director of the Bachelor’s of Information degree program. His research explores the social production of knowledge in the context of emerging digital technologies and leverages critical theories and perspectives from the humanities and social sciences to develop novel insights and design paradigms. He is most known for his conceptual work on ‘critical making’ and its application in the creation of novel socio-technical systems.
Awards
- Minister of College and Universities’ Award of Excellence, 2020
Other Appointments
- Associate Dean, Research
- Faculty Affiliate, Schwartz Reisman Institution for Society and Technology
- Faculty, Book History and Print Culture Collaborative Program, University of Toronto
- Faculty, Knowledge Media Design Institute, University of Toronto
- Associate Member, Graduate Faculty, Centre for Environment, University of Toronto
- Bell Canada Usability Labs Chair in Human-Computer Interaction, 2018-2023
Teaching
INF351H1 Information Design Studio I: How to Make a Computer and Why 0.5 Credits
INF453H1 Capstone Project 0.5 Credits
INF1501H Introduction to Culture & Technology 0.5 Credits
INF1502H Culture & Technology II 0.5 Credits
INF2241H Critical Making: Information Studies, Social Values, and Physical Computing 0.5 Credits
INF2242H Information Policy Research Methods 0.5 Credits
INF1003H Information Systems, Services and Design 0.5 Credits
INF1005H Information Workshops I (2024) 0.25 Credits
INF1006H Information Workshops II (2024) 0.25 Credits
INF2300H Special Topics in Information Studies: UX Research and Design for Video Games 0.5 Credits
Supervision
Current
Olivia Doggett
Sarah Gram
Supervisor: Matt Ratto
Past
- Brian Sutherland
- Isaac Record
- Dan Southwick
- Gabby Resch
- Antonio Gambi-Bari
- Virginia Coons