⟶ Floriane Fo Misslin (they/iel) is a researcher and design educator.
Fo is a senior lecturer at London College of Communication (UK), a doctoral researcher in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK), and a tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).
⟶ Informed by their design background, Fo's doctoral research is a sociological investigation on infrastructures of fashion imagery production and representations of gender nonconformity.
Fo is the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award by the International Journal of Fashion Studies for their article Gender nonconformity at an impasse: Infrastructures of fashion production in London’s editorial photography (forthcoming).
⟶ In their teaching, Fo combines critical studies on the production of visual and material culture with design methodologies and practices. Working with professionals and students in the creative industries, they develop participatory visual research methods reworking the use of mood boards and diagrams.
They are a contributor to Futuress, an international, queer intersectional feminist platform on design.
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To get in touch, write to ⟶ fomisslin@gmail.com
Fo is a senior lecturer at London College of Communication (UK), a doctoral researcher in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths University of London (UK), and a tutor at Design Academy Eindhoven (NL).
⟶ Informed by their design background, Fo's doctoral research is a sociological investigation on infrastructures of fashion imagery production and representations of gender nonconformity.
Fo is the winner of the 2025 Emerging Scholar Award by the International Journal of Fashion Studies for their article Gender nonconformity at an impasse: Infrastructures of fashion production in London’s editorial photography (forthcoming).
⟶ In their teaching, Fo combines critical studies on the production of visual and material culture with design methodologies and practices. Working with professionals and students in the creative industries, they develop participatory visual research methods reworking the use of mood boards and diagrams.
They are a contributor to Futuress, an international, queer intersectional feminist platform on design.
↺ Follow them on Instagram for the freshest updates.
To get in touch, write to ⟶ fomisslin@gmail.com