Originally from Brazil and living in Aotearoa New Zealand, Dr. Tatiana Tavares has won numerous awards for her illustration and design across Australia, New Zealand, the UK and the US. From a fifteen-year career in advertising and graphic design, Tatiana received her MA (2011) and PhD (2019) in Art and Design from AUT – Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. She is now a Senior Lecturer in Communication Design at AUT University, where she teaches at the undergraduate and postgraduate in the subjects of graphic design, illustration, narrative studies and contextual theory.

She is a practicing artist and a scholar that examines the intersection between decolonial storytelling and media language. Her artistic doctoral thesis is concerned with the potentials of polyvocality and interactive digital narrative. Her subjects involve practice-led research methodologies, Latin American syncretism in artistic and literary form, magical realism, and emergent technology. Her design practices cross graphic design, creative writing, illustration, prop making, film, sound design, AR technology and animation. Tatiana is a research associate for Cultural Spaces and Design in partnership with HyperWerk Institute – Basel, Switzerland. She has been recently appointed as a researcher collaborator in a number of research projects with the Te Arai research group (Palliative Care & End of Life Research) — School of Nursing (University of Auckland).

Email Contact: taty.tavares@gmail.com. | ttavares@aut.ac.nz