Gabi Schaffzin
Gabi Schaffzin is an artist, educator, and researcher based in Toronto. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Design at York University's School of Arts, Media, Performance, and Design. He holds a PhD in Art History, Theory, and Criticism from the University of California San Diego. His dissertation project combined design history, disability studies, and a history of computing to trace the history of designed pain scales in the United States throughout the 20th century. Most recently, he was awarded an Insight Development Grant by the Canadian Social Science & Humanities Research Council for his project, "Documenting the epistemological trajectory of neurological pain research."
