After exploring electronics to create adaptive and responsive textile surfaces and communicative objects, Svenja Keune turned toward seeds as a potential biological alternative, and as a dynamic material for textile design. During her PhD project “On Textile Farming” within the MSCA ArcInTexETN, and in order to explore alternative ways of living that the textile plant hybrids propose, she built and moved into a Tiny House ... Read More

In their artistic practice PUTPUT (Stephan Friedli, CH and Ulrik Martin Larsen, DK) explore our immediate surroundings and the objects we use, abuse, admire and interact with in everyday life. Often entering a negotiation or interrogation with specific objects to fully examine what they are and what they may become. Ideas are exhausted distilled and refined to accomplish works that are self-explanatory, ambiguous and profoundly superficial.... Read More

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Experiment 0, Karin Peterson, Riikka Talman, Holly McQuillan, Kathryn Walthers, 2020... Read More

Marjan Kooroshniais a colour researcher, assistant professor and senior lecturer in textile design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. Her research area is colour and light, with a focus on how they affect the process of designing dynamic surface patterns. x... Read More

Faseeh Saleem is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden since Oct 2019. He is conducting his artistic research with a specialization in fashion and textile design. He is a designer, artist, researcher... Read More

Clemens Thornqvist is a professor in fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. Thornqvist ́s research spans fashion, art and organization with the aim to develop fashion design through experimental research methods. Focus of the research is to develop new foundations for fashion design through methodological developments published in several forms of educational tools and volumes... Read More

Erin Lewis is a Ph.D. student in Textile Design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden. Her Ph.D. research explores electromagnetic textile expressions through experimental design methods. Prior to her studies in Sweden, Erin taught wearable technology with in the faculty... Read More

Delia Dumitrescuis is a professor in textile design at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås (UB). Her research focuses on the development of novel textiles design methods and aesthetics using a cross-disciplinary approach, which combines textile technology to digital fabrication. Her cross-disciplinary approach to the field and knowledge in textile structures enabled ... Read More

Kathryn Walters is a PhD researcher in the field of smart textile design. Her work explores woven textiles as complex systems, capable of transformative and reactive behaviour based on the synergistic combination of their materials and structure, while simultaneously seeking to investigate the potential three-dimensional morphologies that can arise and derive from flat-woven textiles ... Read More

Kathryn Walters is a PhD researcher in the field of smart textile design. Her work explores woven textiles as complex systems, capable of transformative and reactive behaviour based on the synergistic combination of their materials and structure, while simultaneously seeking to investigate the potential three-dimensional morphologies that can arise and derive from flat-woven textiles ... Read More

Stefanie Malmgren de Oliveira is a lecturer and researcher in fashion and textile design at the Swedish School of Textiles in Borås, where she completed her practice-based PhD in Fashion Design in 2018. Her dissertation investigated ‘Seeing’ as methodological tool in the fashion design process as foundation for ideation and imagination. She was trained as a fashion designer at the Royal Academy of fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium, where she received a bachelor and a master diploma and gained professional experience at the fashion house Balenciaga in Paris ... Read More

Jan Tepe graduated with a Master of Arts in Fashion Design at the Berlin University of the Arts in 2018. His graduate project took a speculative take on perception-altering technologies to investigate changing bodily awareness. He then moved on to work as a design researcher at the Design Research Lab Berlin where he joined a collaboration with the governmental owned Bundersdruckerei GmbH to investigate and prototype novel technologies for identification purposes. In September 2019 ... Read More

For Holly McQuillan, the most exciting space in design research is between systems thinking and textile-form thinking –it requires that the designer understand and act at the level of the system while developing the product that will result from that system. This multimorphic way of thinking is exemplified in her research practice through Woven Textile-forms ... Read More

Anna Lidström is a designer and PhD student at Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. She is working with artistic research within the field of sustainable fashion. The focus of her research is to explore and analyze the aesthetic potential in clothing waste and surplus for new design expressions and functions, and to develop foundational theoretical design methods for remake. Since 2015, Anna is also the creative director at ... Read More

Karin Landahl is a senior lecturer in textile and fashion design at the Swedish School of Textiles with a focus on knits as construction and form building. She defended her PhD thesis The myth of the silhouette - on form thinking in knitwear design in 2016. Karin is questioning the starting point for form thinking when textile and form is one, the knitted knot is a suggestion of using invariants as alternative foundation for form development.... Read More

Prof. Hina Tayyaba Khalil (Vice Chancellor, Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design - PIFD) is inviting you all to attend a virtual session on the role of artifact in artistic research scheduled ... Read More

Meet Mr. Faseeh Saleem, Assistant Professor PIFD. He is currently enrolled as a doctoral student at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Sweden since Oct 2019. He is conducting his artistic research ... Read More

Meet Dr. Vidmina Stasiulyte. She is a researcher, fashion designer, artist and lecturer at School of Textiles, University of Boras - Sweden, whose work merges the field of non-visual ... Read More

This exhibition is curated by Dr Vidmina (Researcher, Fashion Designer, and Artist based in Sweden) and Mr. Faseeh Saleem (Assistant Professor at PIFD and currently pursuing doctoral ... Read More

The exhibition Drafts, is curated by Dr Vidmina (Researcher, Fashion Designer, and Artist based in Sweden) and Mr. Faseeh Saleem (Assistant Professor at PIFD and currently pursuing doctoral studies in Textile & Fashion Design, Department of Design, Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås) and hosted by none other than Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design.

PIFD Team will be hosting and managing a couple of webinars and exhibitions exploring design research artifacts as intermediary knowledge. For more details, join us Live on Facebook this Friday. Read More

For more details, join us Live on Facebook tomorrow the 12th of March, 2021 at 5PM (PST) / 1PM (CET).