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(Designer, Germany) Sylvie Krüger comes from a family with a long tradition of producing textiles. After having studied textile design in Germany and the Netherlands she established a multidisciplinary design studio engaged in projects ranging from textile product design and textile interior design to exhibition design. For two years she managed the home textile studio of her family’s automotive and upholstery fabric weaving mill. Since 2006 she has been working as a freelance designer specialising on the use of textiles […]

(Associate Professor, Lingnan University, Hong Kong) Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University and co-founder of Mobile Co-learning, a local non-profit organisation aiming at facilitating co-learning outside formal schools in Hong Kong. His main research interests are education and cultural studies, cultural economy, history of capitalism and markets, and alternative development. Having co-edited the 6 volumes of Cultural and Social Studies Translation Series (jointly published by Oxford University Press, Hong Kong, and Central Compilation & Translation Press, Beijing), […]

(Artist, Head of the Fashion Design Master’s programme at ArtEZ University of the Arts, Netherlands) A Dutch-born artist and fashion designer based in New York and Arnhem. She is a graduate of the fashion department at ArtEZ Hogeschool voor de Kunsten, Arnhem, along with five other graduates, among whom Viktor & Rolf, she showed as Le Cri Neerlandais, the first Dutch fashion designers to have a runway show in Paris. Gatzen produces and facilitates large collaborative projects using clothing as […]

(Textile Catalyst, Hong Kong) Edith Cheung juggles her time between commercial and self-initiated projects as a textile catalyst. She takes interest in all textile-related matters, ancient and modern, East and West. After returning to Hong Kong from New York and Europe in the late 1980s, she started working as a costume designer in the film industry. At the 27th Golden Horse Award, Cheung was awarded the Best Costume Design and Best Art Direction for her work in Director Yim Ho’s […]

(Director, Business Development, The Hong Kong Research Institute of Textile and Apparel, Hong Kong) Experienced in textile and apparel manufacturing, sourcing and retailing. Prior to joining HKRITA, she was Division Merchandising Manager in Ralph Lauren, responsible for global sourcing, cost planning, merchandising, and material and product development. Before that, Chan worked with a number of global textile and apparel companies, responsible for global sourcing, merchandising, licensing, and research and development. Chan graduated with a Higher Diploma in Textile Technology from […]

(Founder, PET Lamp, Spain) Álvaro Catalán de Ocón in 2004 starts up his own studio in Barcelona where he designs LA FLACA lamp, winner of the Design plus Award (Frankfurt) and DELTA Awards in Barcelona. After his travel to the Colombian Amazon in 2011, he founds PET Lamp. This is a project that mixes the reuse of PET plastic bottles with selected traditional weaving techniques from different corners of the world in order to create unique handmade lampshades. Currently he […]

(Artist, Australia) Nicole Barakat is an artist lives and works in Sydney, Australia. She works to unpick the borders of art and life, re-examining intersections between drawing and textiles, collaboration, live work and community-engagement. Her work embodies the love and patience that often characterises traditional textile practices. Nicole approaches making as a form of meditation, with intentions to transform the conditions of everyday life, conjuring new ways of thinking, feeling and envisioning reality. Barakat’s practice includes extensive collaborative community-engagement. Within […]