Higher-Education CollaBorations

Sustainable learning experiences for
students, researchers & educators

my Approach

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

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MY METHODOLOGY INTEGRATES

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

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

  • Contemplative methods that slow down the learning process so that deeper insights can emerge.

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

  • Relational practices that reveal the interconnections between self, materials, processes, ecosystems and impact.

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LEARNING AREAS

    • Pluriversal fashion-textiles.

    • Regenerative fashion-textile practices.

    • Decolonial perspectives on fashion-textile systems.

    • Contemplative design practices.

    • Relational and place-based research methods.

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

    • Practice-led research for fashion-textiles.

    • A performative research paradigm for creative industries.

    • Integrating contemplative practices into academic research.

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

    • Emergent design processes.

    • Animist approaches for design.

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

    • Sacred making practices.

    • Ontological redirections for fashion-textile and design futures.

    • Reimagining fashion-textile and design education.

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    • 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.

    - Ecological awareness and systems thinking.

    - Confidence to experiment with alternative methodologies.

    - Methodologies for pluriversal and decolonial approaches to research. and sustainability.

    - Well-being through creative and contemplative practices.

    - Fresh pedagogical approaches that engage students more deeply.

    - New frameworks for integrating regenerative being into classrooms.

    - Methods for creating more diverse, inclusive and decolonised curricula.

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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 what took place 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. 

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OTHER COLLABORATIONS

  • 2025
    ‘Stitching Worlds: Embroidery as Performative Documentation of Pluriversal Fashion-Textile Practices’.
    Arts and Design Practice Research Exchange 2025: Capturing Practice. Singapore.

    ‘Fashion-Textiles as Alive: Methods for Co-creative and Ritual Practices through the Pluriverse.’
    Between the Seams Symposium.
    Royal College of Art, United Kingdom.

    ‘Relational Fashion-Textiles: Redirecting toward relational fashion-textiles creative research’. 
    Prosperity Fashion International Conference.
    Università degli Studi di Firenze Department of Architecture, Italy.

    2023
    ’The Four Elements as Allies in Anchoring in Pluriversal Fashion Futures.’
    Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Four Elements of Fashion Conference. Università Iuav di Venezia Department of Architecture and Arts Venice, Italy.

    2021
    ‘Realising Fashion through Place: An Exploration of Fashion Rituals on Gadigal Land.’
    Responsible Fashion Series.
    University of Antwerp, Belgium.

    2020
    ‘An Eco-Spiritual Perspective for Sustainable Fashion.’
    Critical Fashion Studies.
    Uni of Melbourne, Australia.

    2018
    ‘Sustainability 5.0 - A Spiritually Grounded Sustainability for Thriving Fashion and Textile Design Futures.’
    Global Fashion Conference: A Discourse on Fashion, Design and Sustainability.
    London College of Fashion, UK.

  • 2023-2024
    ‘Fashion & Sustainability’ lecture as part of the Fashion Intersections second year subject for UTS Fashion Design BA.

    ‘Fashion Futuring’ lecture as part of the Design Futures degree at UTS College.

    • Sacred Stitching - an experiential workshop focused on reconnecting to the magic and mythology in stitching practices. In collaboration with the Lissome. Berlin, 2024.

    • In 2023-2024, I ran several workshops at UTS as part of my doctoral research, introducing fashion educators, students, researchers & practitioners to my methods.

  • 2020-2024
    ‘Pluriversal Fashion Textiles - Re-Directing toward Holistic, Autonomous, Place-Based & Relational Fashion-Textiles Worlds’.
    Doctorate research project, University of Technology Sydney.

    2024
    Research assistant and co-author on research article - ‘Designing Printed Cotton Shirts to Evolve over Time’ with A/Prof Timo Rissanen, Prof Lynda Grose (CCA) & A/Prof Vibeke Riisberg (Design School Kolding).

    2018
    ‘Feminist Internet’ - worked as an assistant for this research project as part of the Futures Research Lab at the University of Arts, London.

    2017
    ‘Resilience - Developing Creative Design Principles’.
    Master’s research project, London College of Fashion, UK.


INVESTMENT

Program fees vary and are 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. I look forward to connecting with you.

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