KEITH DOYLE is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University of Art +
Design. He is a lead/co-lead Investigator on a few Emily Carr research ini-

tiatives including, the ssHRC Insight cloTHING(s) as conversation project
and is a founding faculty member and the current Co-Director of Material
Matters, a pragmatic material research centre within the Intersections
Digital Studios at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Material Matters’
mandate is to explore sustainable yet innovative material practice through
industry outreach and partnerships, social forums and workshops for
knowledge transfer. Keith holds both a Bra and an MFA in Sculpture. He
maintains an active material practice exhibiting locally and abroad.

KATE FLETCHER’s work is both rooted in nature’s principles and engaged
with the cultural and creative forces of fashion and design. Over the last
two decades, her original thinking and progressive outlook has infused

the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and
come to define it. Kate has over 50 scholarly and popular publications in
the field. Among other books, she is author of Sustainable Fashion and
Textiles: Design Journeys (2014, 2008), whichis in active use in commercial
design studios and is the principal text in academic seminar rooms around
the world and of a pioneering new text Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion
(2016). Kate is Professor of Sustainability, Design, Fashion at the Centre for
Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London where she has a broad
remit spanning enterprise, education and research. Her strategic leader-
ship permeates the Centre’s activities, including its role as co-secretariat to
the All Party Parliamentary Group on Ethics and Sustainability in Fashion
at the House of Lords.

HELENE DAY FRASER’s textile and garment-based work addresses concerns
and developments in the areas of: sustainability, new digital technologies,
craft and legacy practices of making, and generative systems. Her research
consistently explores modes of social engagement, identity construction
and clothing consumption habits. It is informed by a design education, and
a past professional career in fashion, design, and manufacturing. Hélene

is an Associate Professor At Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She is
the lead investigator of the cloTHING(s) as Conversation research initiative,
co-founder of the Material Matters research center and the Lab Manager
for Emily Carr’s DEsIs lab.

GRANT GREGSON is the Coordinator of Emily Carr University’s Teaching
and Learning Centre administering and teaching Emily Carr's elearning
platforms, Moodle, WordPress Blogs and Wiki. Grant's research supports
faculty and staff with incorporating new technologies for use in online
learning, the classroom, research projects and web publishing, together
with scholarly and pedagogical practices. Grant directs Emily Carr Uni-
versity Production Services (ECUPS), a student media team providing
filming, publishing and web-casting of events and lectures at Emily Carr.
Grant serves on the Curriculum Planning + Review Committee (CPR), on
the Pedagogy, eLearning and Technology Committee (PET), on the British
Columbia Teaching & Learning Council (BC-TLC) and on BC’s ETUG Steer-
ing Committee (SCETUG).

LISA H. GROCOTT isa Professor of Design and head of department at
Monash University, Australia and Director of THRVNG a co-design 39
research lab. Before recently returning to Melbourne Lisa spent the past 12
years at Parsons School of Design in New York. Half of that time she was
the dean of academic initiatives and the past six years she was core fac-
ulty in the Transdisciplinary Design MFA program. Lisa collaborates with
learning scientists from psychology, neuroscience and education to design
research experiments that have social impact in the classroom and partners
with universities on speculative design projects that explore the future(s)

CONTRIBUTORS

of higher education. She regularly publishes on design research and is cur-
rently a chief investigator on a federally funded research grant into teacher
change and innovative learning through the University of Melbourne.

DR. GARNET HERTZ is Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts
and is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Design and Dynamic Media

at Emily Carr. His research explores Diy culture, electronic art and crit-
ical design practices. He holds a PhD from the University of California
Irvine and has exhibited his studio work in seventeen countries including
SIGGRAPH, Ars Electronica, and DEAF. His research is widely cited in
academic publications, and popular press on his work has disseminated
through 25 countries including The New York Times, Wired, The Washington
Post, NPR, USA Today, NBC, CBS, TV Tokyo and CNN Headline News.