Ileana Jalil Kentros
PhD candidate, designer, professional, academic. Her research interests and publications have focused on critical design, technologies, fashion and design education, and she is currently analysing inequality in higher education in Mexico.
Dra. Kirsten Scott
Head of Research at the Instituto Marangoni in London. She is the founder of the Barkcloth Research Network, a multidisciplinary research group comprising artists, environmentalists, farmers, scientists and designers from the United Kingdom, the United States and Uganda.
Dra. LeeAnn Teal-Rutkovsky
Founded IMPACT Fashion Hub (USA, 2018), an organisation that focuses on the resurgence of indigenous knowledge and decolonisation, with the aim of reducing cultural repression and the aftermath of imperialism.
Brenda Mondragón Toledo
PhD in Sociology and Latin American Studies from University College Cork (Ireland). Mexican feminist sociologist.
Jennifer Whitty
Researcher, educator, consultant and design professional. Her approach integrates pedagogy, research and activism to reimagine fashion as a vehicle for social and environmental justice.
Carolina Martínez Tolosa
Diseño Detonante´s founder, an experimental nomadic design studio that considers design as a political practice of re-existence, insubordination, disobedience and recognition.
Héctor Tabares Rodríguez
Diseño Detonante´s founder, an experimental nomadic design studio that considers design as a political practice of re-existence, insubordination, disobedience and recognition
Tamara Poblete
PhD candidate in Design History at the Royal College of Art in London and founder of the transdisciplinary and transfeminist collective Malvestidas
Loreto Martínez Labarca
Artist-researcher, cultural manager and co-founder of Colectivo Malvestidas.
Siviwe James
Artist, researcher and creative strategist. Her work explores the return as a decolonial design methodology. Rooted in the Xhosa sensibility of relationship, repair and rejection, her practice integrates listening, ritual and archival work into new forms of cultural and material research.
Mi Medrado
Anthropologist and editor who focuses in the economic and cultural circuits of fashion and media in the Global South: Brazil, Angola and the United States.
Şölen Kipöz
PhD and associate professor in the Department of Textile and Fashion Design at the University of Economics in İzmir (Turkey). Her research and practice focus on ethical, social and sustainable fashion, with an emphasis on critical fashion studies and conceptual design.
Miguel Angel Gardetti
Founded the Sustainable Textile Centre in 2008 and, as a member of the Research Collective on Decoloniality & Fashion, created the ABYA YALA Coalition. He also founded the publishing label Otra-Otro.
Sandra Niessen
PhD, specialized in clothing and textile traditions of the Batak people of North Sumatra, Indonesia, about whom she has written 4 books, numerous articles, and produced 2 films. She taught for 15 years at the University of Alberta. Founding member of the Research Collective for Decoloniality and Fashion and Fashion Act Now.