My work is concerned with fashion as an expression of emotion. I research what humans wear to express collective and individual identities, as well as communicate and relate to each other. This is to better understand and map possibilities for more satisfactory futures. I engage with speculative, critical design and design fiction. Still, as much as I see myself as a ‘futurist’, I’m also a ‘presentist’ making a conscious effort to stay with the trouble and appreciate the world as it appears to me now. I investigate how environments, people, feelings, materials and products come together through storytelling, by developing polyvocal ideas and uniting narratives. I employ art and design aesthetic to reduce the fear of complexity and embrace its beauty. And I like to build engagement through play and sneak in questions about the interconnectedness of the world.
