Ten perspectives from our doctoral students on the future of Textile and Fashion Design

Erika Blomgren

“My research explores sketching methods within design processes, proposing sketching as an observational and analytical tool for examining alternative ways of seeing, understanding, and representing the interrelations between body, dress, and movement.”

Elvira Jönsson

“My research explores the design possibilities of dichroic filters in a textile-based spatial context to create sensuous, light-responsive experiences.”

Helga Haldursdottir

“I’m exploring relationships and the kinds of connections we can establish with objects by giving them caring functions. So, I make a lot of Needy Objects and Pet Objects that demand to be combed, hugged, petted, and cared for.”

Karin Hedlund

“I am exploring how 3D printing can be used to mend broken objects, inspired by ways of thinking about textile repair.”

Leonie Burkhardt

“I’m exploring the form-transformative potential of woven textiles to investigate how form-transformative properties of active materials can activate change in the context of the built environment.”

Majli af Ekenstam

“I’m exploring the bidirectional exchange between textile thinking and digital computation. Investigating how textile materiality and computational processes inform and transform each other.”

Matilda Falk

“In my research in textile design, I am investigating sustainable processes for Swedish residual wool and natural dyes through regenerative design methods.”

Matilda Forsblad 

“My research strives towards different ways of thinking, doing, and being fashion. Its main concern involves fundamental and broad questions such as: What is fashion? When is fashion? Where is fashion? How is fashion? And who is fashion?”

Saina Koohnavard

“My PhD investigates methods for digital-only fashion design practices, using examples such as procedural generation and fashion: game design crossovers to explore how designers can develop new forms of materiality and authorship in the digital realm.”

Elise Piquemal

“My project explores ways to reconceptualise textile heritage through the lens of maintenance (understood as interactions sustaining tools, infrastructures, knowledge, and the values that support them) to address the topic of cultural sustainability, taking as a focus the historical model of artisanal industry and innovation system of Lyon’s silk industry.

My research aims to define not only how professional artisanship can persist within textile industrialised systems, but how it can actively shape the foundations of more sustainable and equitable production models, while revealing alternative strategies that reconfigure the relationship between tradition and innovation.”