Meet the Lumière Dreamers: Dr. Patrick Pennefather

Dr. Patrick Parra Pennefather is a mixed reality visioneer, sound designer, composer, teacher, researcher and serial collaborator. He has mentored multi-disciplinary teams co-constructing scalable digital prototypes with over 50 companies and organizations in the fields of medicine, games, mobile dev, mixed reality, education and the arts. He has received numerous national grants, nominations and international awards in music composition and educational technology. Patrick has facilitated ideation workshops for EA, Riot, Microsoft Games, and others. He’s published in the fields of Sound Design, xR, VR, MR, Bio-Medical Visualization and Agile application development with a soon to be released book ‘Mentoring Digital Media Projects’ (Apress Springer/Nature). He’s an Assistant Professor at UBC Theatre and Film, faculty in residence at the Emerging Media Lab, and a founding member of the Master of Digital Media (MDM) Program mentoring emerging real-world xR projects. Patrick teaches sound design, improvisation, creativity management, collaborative prototyping, and project pipelines, mentors grads and undergrads on immersive technologies, co-creates and conducts research on Mixed Reality prototypes.