⤷ I’m a researcher, designer, and educator whose practice focuses on developing participatory and visual research methods.
I’m a lecturer in art direction at London College of Communication and a PhD candidate in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK).
My research studies the production of fashion photography and fashion practices that challenge the distinction between womenswear and menswear, with a focus on the use of mood boards. This continues my project
⟶ Diagramming Fluidity which was published as a book with
Onomatopee, and a paper in the journal
Fashion Studies. The project was exhibited in
Designs for Different Futures (US) and
Viral (FR). I also wrote for
Futuress about fashion education.
I’m also a visiting tutor to the MA Geo-Design at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL) and to the studio Fashions & Embodiment of the MA Design: Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths (UK).
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How to do sociology with... re-assembling fashion magazines
George Kalivis, Silvia Bombardini, Tom Wadsworth and I created the collective Practice Matter. For our first workshop, we collaborated with the
Methods Lab at Goldsmiths University of London and artist
Femke de Vries for an online workshop on the 30th of May 2021. Using the Vogue.co.uk webpage as a case study, we explored the limits and possibilities of a research method beyond the traditions of text-based research:
✂︎ How can multiple narratives emerge from the collective re-assembling of a fashion magazine?
✂︎ How might screenshotting, annotating, extracting and connecting visuals and texts from a fashion magazine shape how we do sociology?
