José Teunissen
José Teunissen is dean of Amsterdam Fashion Institute (Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences) and a professor in Fashion and Identity. Previous she was the dean of School of Design and Technology at London College of Fashion. With more than thirty years of experience in art education, curation, journalism and research, she a strong international profile as fashion curator, researcher and knowledge exchange expert in innovation and de-westernization of fashion.
Diana Albarrán González
Dr. Diana Albarrán González is a designer, educator, researcher, and craftivist at the Design Programmes at Waipapa Taumata Rau | University of Auckland. Her research explores different ways of collaboration from decolonial, intersectional, and pluriversal perspectives, interested in collective well-being, Indigenous knowledge, crafts-design-arts, textiles, embodiment, and creativity. With over 20 years of international experience, she integrates a meaningful sense of cultural awareness and sensitivity in different contexts, bringing a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) lens to design practice. She holds a PhD in Indigenous Development and Design, a Master’s degree in Design Management and a Bachelor’s in Industrial Design.
Mi Medrado
Anthropologist and editor, Medrado focuses on the economic and cultural circuits of fashion and media in the Global South: Brazil, Angola, and the United States. She is a doctoral candidate at the Federal University of Bahia, with a doctoral research stay at Agostinho Neto University in Angola. Medrado holds a Master of Arts degree and is a doctoral student at the University of California, Los Angeles. She experiments with ways to innovate the epistemology of fashion in the Global South.
Tamara Poblete
Tamara Poblete is a PhD candidate in Design History at the Royal College of Art in London and an academic at the University of Amsterdam, where she teaches courses in Fashion Studies and the Bachelor's Degree in Global Art, Culture and Politics.
Her critical practice focuses on two fundamental axes: the exploration of the political re-signification of clothing as a tool of protest in social movements, particularly feminist ones, and the vindication of the repoliticisation of Latin American anti-colonial resistance struggles as a critique of decolonial thinking in Western Europe. In 2016, together with Loreto Martínez, she founded the transdisciplinary and transfeminist collective Malvestidas.
Miguel Ángel Gardetti
Before obtaining his doctoral degree, Miguel earned two master's degrees: one in Business Administration from IAE Business School (Austral University, Argentina) and another in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Development from the University of Business and Social Sciences (Argentina). In the field of sustainable textiles and fashion, he founded the Sustainable Textile Center in 2008. He has been a guest co-editor and author in various journals and books. He is a renowned professor at several Latin American universities. In the area of decoloniality associated with fashion and design, he is a member of the Research Collective on Decoloniality & Fashion. Within this Collective, he formalized the ABYA YALA Coalition (Abya-Yala.earth) and founded the publishing house Otra-Otro (otra-otro.org).