Luis García Is a Public
innovator, researcher
and systems thinker.
Luis Garcia
2026
Relationality as Reconciliation – Designing for Equiponderance
Design Research Society

2026
Public Design Education: Plural Practices and Situated Teaching and Learning
Design Research Society

2026
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Present
Public Design Reading Group
Design Research Society

2026
Designing Between Worlds: A Reckoning with the Unfinished Condition of Public Design Transitions (PhD Dissertation)
Carnegie Mellon University

2025
Examining the Impact of Design Studies: Systems and Persuasion Courses on Undergraduate Design Students at Carnegie Mellon University
Design Research Society

2025
Design for Social Innovation
Carnegie Mellon University

2024
DRS2024: PhD Consortium
Design Research Society

2024
Designing for Just and Sustainable Policies in the Space between Institutions and Experimental Government Practices
Design Research Society

2024
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2025
Design Studies: Systems
Carnegie Mellon University

2023
Design Studies: Cultures
Carnegie Mellon University

2023
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2025
Design Studies: Persuasion
Carnegie Mellon University

2022
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2026
Senior Teaching Consultant Fellow, Eberly Center
Eberly Center

2022
Co-Design of a Program for Medical Students’ Experiential Learning in Community-Engaged Research
Indiana University

2021
A New ‘HIP’ Public
Indiana University

2021
Understanding the designer’s role in Latin American Public Sector Innovation Labs
Indiana University

2020
Quito Metropolitan Corridor - A public space intervention
Public Contest

2020
Re-Imagining the Canal Walk experience in Indianapolis
Indiana University

2019
Citizen participation to monitor and improve the public bike-sharing system in Cuenca, Ecuador
Council for Citizen Participation and Social Control, Ecuador

2018
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2019
Two open innovation processes to identify initiatives for improving public transportation in Cuenca
CEDIA - National Research and Education Network of Ecuador

2018
Understanding the interactions between the psychosocial factors, the environment, food patterns and physical activity in schools of Cuenca
Universidad de Cuenca

2018
Design of the flipped learning model for three subjects in the University of Cuenca
Universidad de Cuenca

2017
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2019
El Studio Podcast
El Studio, Cuenca, Ecuador

2017
UI / UX for “Cash in My Mobile” E-Money Service in Ecuador
Universidad de Cuenca

2016
Co-Designing brands and business models with local entrepreneurs
Universidad de Cuenca

2016
"Box of light" a research project for improving photography teaching and curriculum
Universidad de Cuenca

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