Higher-Education Collaborations

Sustainable learning experiences for
students, researchers & educators

my Approach

Drawing from my doctoral research in pluriversal design, academic teaching and almost 20 years of industry experience, I create IMMERSIVE LEARNING EXPERIENCES
that challenge students, researchers and educators
TO THINK BEYOND CONVENTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY APPROACHES.

Through experimentation and collective exploration, we co-create spaces where
new possibilities can unfold toward regeneration in our industry and beyond.


MY METHODOLOGY INTEGRATES

  • Place-based learning that connects students to their local environment and context.

  • Embodied practices that engage all ways of knowing, not just intellectual understanding.

  • Contemplative methods that slow down the learning process and deepen insights.

  • Decolonial perspectives that honour diverse wisdom traditions alongside western approaches.

  • Relational approaches that reveal the interconnections between personal choices and global impact.

LEARNING AREAS

    • Pluriversal fashion-textiles.

    • Embodied approaches to sustainability.

    • Regenerative fashion-textile practices.

    • Decolonial perspectives on fashion-textile systems.

    • Contemplative design practices.

    • Relational, place-based and holistic research methods.

    • Creative research methodologies for fashion-textile inquiry and practice.

    • Practice-led research in fashion-textiles - moving beyond traditional academic methods.

    • Performative research paradigms for creative industries.

    • Integrating contemplative practices into academic research.

    • Collaborative research with more-than-humans and materials.

    • Emergent design processes - working with liminal spaces.

    • Animist approaches for design.

    • Slow design and alternative temporalities in fashion-textile practice.

    • Sacred making practices for contemporary designers.

    • Ontological redirections for fashion-textile and design futures.

    • Whole-systems approaches to sustainability.

    • Reimagining fashion-textile and design education.

    • Fashion-textiles meets ecological philosophy.

    • Ancient knowledge systems and contemporary design practice.

    • Community-based participatory design methods.

    • Guest lectures (1-2 hours) - Introduction to key concepts.

    • Workshops (2-4 hours) - Hands-on exploration of specific concepts & practices.

    • Intensives (6-8 hours) - Deep dive into themes through a range of discourse, practical and experiential methods.

    • Multi-day Immersions (2-5 days) -Comprehensive explorations into a topic and its sub-topics through various experiential methods.

    These experiences can be run
    in-person at your institution, off-site in a local park, or through a hybrid approach combining in-person and virtual elements.

    Each collaboration is uniquely designed to meet the specific needs, context, and learning objectives of the institution and participants.

  • The workshops, intensives and immersions utilise a variety of methods I have learnt and developed, which may include: discourse, sharing & witnessing, visual mapping, embodiment practices, mindfulness, visioning & futuring methods, material practices, relational and place-based practices, contemplations, and more.

  • These spaces cultivate potential for students, researchers and educators to develop:

    - Critical thinking skills that challenge modern fashion-textile and design systems.

    - Embodied design practices that integrate multiple ways of knowing.

    - Tools for creating regenerative rather than extractive practices.

    - Deep ecological awareness and systems thinking.

    - Confidence to experiment with alternative methodologies.

    - Methodologies for pluriversal and decolonial approaches.

    - Well-being through creative and contemplative practices.

    - Fresh pedagogical approaches that engage students more deeply.

    - New frameworks for integrating sustainability into classrooms.

    - Methods for creating more inclusive and decolonised curricula.

RECENT COLLABORATIONS

For the Fashion & Nature seminar in September 2025, Karina Kallio and I facilitated a workshop, taking researchers through various nature-based, embodiment, experiential practices. This was part of the University of Technology’s higher degree research seminar, with the aim to introduce Australia-wide researchers to diverse ways of engaging with fashion, nature and sustainability, organised and ran by Professor Kate Fletcher & Associate Professor Timo Rissanen.

You can read more about this here.

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In 2023-2024, I conducted various workshops at the University of Technology Sydney, as part of my doctoral research, introducing fashion and textiles students, researchers and educators to various methods I had created to get them engaging these concepts through a diverse lens. Utilising mindfulness, relational and place-based practices, witnessing & sharing, embodiment practices and visioning, participants were taken out of their usual contexts to explore different possibilities. 

OTHER COLLABORATIONS


INVESTMENT

Program fees vary based on format, duration, group size, and travel requirements. I work with institutions to find approaches that fit within academic budgets.

If you’re interested in expanding how your students, research faculty and educators engage with fashion-textile and sustainability, let's discuss how these approaches might serve your institution's vision.

I am based between Australia and Europe, and travel globally to facilitate workshops and speaking engagements throughout the year. Get in touch to discuss dates and locality availability in more detail.

You can book a complimentary 30-minute consultation below.