In 2020 Troy Nachtigall joined the Faculty of Digital Media and Creative Industries at the Amsterdam University of Applied Science (AUAS). Troy completed his PhD at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) with the dissertation Materializing Data; Technology and Craftsmanship for Ultra Personalization. Before joining AUAS, Troy completed post-doctoral research on CoDesign and ShapeChange with the Socio Technical Design group at Aarhus University. Troy was also a fashion designer in Florence, Italy for more than a decade where he also taught courses at the ISIA Firenze, Sapienza and IUAV Universities. Troy leads research that seeks to understand how data can be used as a material (for fashion). Understanding data as a material serves to help practitioners, companies and municipalities use data in everyday practice. This is done from a practice-based research perspective where demonstrators and tools enable understanding of sustainability, circularity and ubiety driven by a designerly intelligence of digital physical relationships.
Anthony has a broad academic background both in the UK and overseas. Previously, he was the Academic Director/Head of Fashion for an International Design Institute in Beijing, before becoming the Head of Design at AUB Bournemouth then Associate Head of The Fashion Institute at Manchester Met before being appointed as the Head of Department of fashion at Kingston in 2020. Anthony is an alumnus, of Kingston and have previously shown Fashion collections in London, Paris and Japan, both as an independent designer and retailer as well as part of a design team. His research activities investigate the relationship between Fashion, Art, Culture and Society, through writing, presenting at conferences and exhibiting on 20th Century Chinese Fashion and the production of sculptural installation pieces at international exhibitions and conferences constructed from non-traditional fashion materials such as cardboard, currency and wood. He continually question existing practices in fashion and encourage students and staff to challenge norms.
Professor José Teunissen is Dean of the School of Design and Technology at London College of Fashion, UAL, and Professor of Fashion Theory. Currently she is the principal investigator of 3 European funded project around Fashion Tech and digital learning (E4FT, FT Alliance, DeFINE) Next, she works as a free-lance Fashion curator. From 2002- 2016 she held a Professorship in Fashion Theory at ArtEZ where she established the Centre of Expertise Future Makers. José previously worked as a journalist for several Dutch newspapers and Dutch broadcast television and was curator Fashion and Costume at the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (1998-2006). In collaboration with Boijmans Rotterdam she curated two traveling exhibitions Art of Fashion (2009) and The Future of Fashion is Now (2014) José has co-edited many books including: Fashion and Imagination, 2009; The Art of Fashion, 2009; Couturegraphique, 2013; The Future of Fashion is Now, 2014; and Everything but Clothes, 2015.
Her research is focusing around the power of fashion as a cultural phenomenon and more specific on how current challenges around sustainability and digitalization are driving forces for innovation and system changes. See for example: A Fashion Odyssey (ed Jan Brand, Jose Teunissen) ArtEZ, 2013 and Fashion Data, 2015. https://tijdelijkmodemuseum.hetnieuweinstituut.nl/en/publication And the exhibition State of Fashion Arnhem 1 June- 23 July2018 Searching for the New Luxury celebrating 50 innovative, disruptive and sustainable example of the fashion discipline. See digital catalogue: https://issuu.com/stateoffashion/docs/stof_07_2018_catalogus_interactive_
Ulrike Nägele was born in Stade, in the north of Germany. She studied Textile-, Fashion.-and Costume-Design at HAW, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences. For more than 20 years she worked for several theatres, film productions and operas like Burgtheater Vienna, State Opera Hamburg and Tanztheater Pina Bausch in Wuppertal. Since 2011 she holds a professorship at AMD Akademie Mode & Design, department of design of Fresenius University, and works as Munich vice-dean and dean of studies in the field of Fashion Design.2018 she won the IFFTI senior faculty award in Shanghai. Her research interest is the enlargement and crosslinking with and beyond fashion
Professor Kent completed a PhD from the University of the Arts London for his research into the locational contexts of fashion retail stores, their built environments and interior design. Previously he undertook a funded MBA, specialising in retail, and holds a BA (Hons.) in Modern History from the University of Oxford where he received two awards. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Fellow of the Higher Education Institute. He is currently Chair of the Research sub-committee of the International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutions IFFTI. He was formerly Chair of the Marketing Special Interest Group of the British Academy of Management and co-organiser of the Marketing, Design and Branding Colloquia 2011- 2017.
Research areas
Professor Kent's research is centred on interdisciplinary approaches to marketing and design, focusing on the convergence of physical and virtual environments. Professor Kent has further interests in
sustainable fashion retail and upcycling and research methodologies and their application across disciplines. He was Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded research project, 'Metamorphosis of Design
Management' examining the relationship between education, research and industry in this field. Professor Kent has initiated a number of academic conferences and symposia including the first Design and
Marketing symposium in 2011. Previous projects have included EU funded programmes on business mentoring, skills training and development.
Dia Mirza (born Dia Handrich; 9 December 1981) is an Indian model, actress, producer, and social worker who predominantly works in Hindi films. Mirza won the title of Miss Asia Pacific International in 2000. She made her acting debut in Bollywood in 2001.
Dia Mirza is the UN advocate for sustainable development. has been involved with Cancer Patients Aid Association and Spastics Society of India, and has worked extensively with the government of Andhra Pradesh to spread HIV awareness, prevention of female foeticide, PETA, CRY and most recently the NDTV Greenathon – an effort to find tangible solutions against pollution and the book, "Deke Dheko" by Radio Mirchi (a campaign initiated to collect books for underprivileged children). She is on the board of the CocaCola foundation that works towards development in rural India. She is associated with campaigns such as Sanctuary Asia's Leave Me Alone and Female Foeticide. She also won the Green Globe Honor for Extraordinary Work by a Public Figure, The Sixth Geospa Asiaspa India Awards for Eco Crusader of the Year, Best actress for Kaafir at Dadasaheb Phalke Awards 2020 to name a few.