EDUCATION
Curriculum taught at the interface between design, biology and technology. Creating a disciplined approach with how designers can interact with future systems, innovation and sustainability.
Classes taught @ Parsons School of Fashion
Thesis 1: Materiality
Collection based design through the exploration of material development.
Design Studio 3: Materiality Futures
Materiality Futures, Development of personal research methodologies, philosophies and processes with specialized approaches to materiality. A strong focus on textile inno-vation through sustainability, technology, fabric manipulation, dyeing, print, weaving and knitting techniques. Incorporating basic engineering principles from biology, technology, and physics, and fusing this with social and environmental current events. Students are prompted to foreshadow future materiality and fashion systems and begin to conceptualize and design into the future.
Design Studio 4: Materiality
Focus on the application of material and textile innovation to fashion design in relation to the body and beyond. Course aims to help students generate new possibilities for fashion through the integration of new technologies and sustainable approaches with foundational methods of dying, knit, print, surface treatments, embroidery, and weave while challenging students to explore new fabrication techniques. Deep hands-on research exploration towards applied materiality outcomes including both garments/wearables and non-garment/non-wearable outcomes are encouraged.
Design Studio 4: Fashion Systems and Society
Using fashion design as a pathway to address current soci-etal and environmental problems, utilizing ethical modes of conduct and harnessing current and future technology to traditional techniques. Students develop innovative fashion systems that focus on social, environmental, economic improvement.
H&M Global Change Award Critic 2018&2019
Helping new companies refine their product and innovation
Thesis 2 : Materiality
Collection based design through the exploration of material development.
Designing with Mycelium
Syllabus Development: Materiality Futures and Materiality Futures Lab
Genetic Engineering & Arduino Interfaces
BIODESIGN ADVISING
Collaboration between the Department of Chemistry and Department of Design at Syracuse University to develop bio materials through genetically engineered bacteria
H&M Global Change Award Guest Critic
2018 & 2019
