About

I am an educator, artist and designer. These pages document my research, teaching and creative practice across fashion, art and sustainability. I was born in Finland and trained as a fashion designer at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in Australia. I completed a practice-based PhD on zero waste fashion design at UTS in 2013. As an artist I have focused on the (in)humanity of labour, politics and love through installation, performance and cross-stitched poetry. I co-curated Fashioning Now with Alison Gwilt in 2009 and Yield with Holly McQuillan in 2011, and I have co-published two books on fashion and sustainability, Shaping Sustainable Fashion with Gwilt in 2011 and Zero Waste Fashion Design with McQuillan in 2016. I took on the role of Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons School of Design in 2010, and was promoted to Associate Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability, with extended employment, in 2019. In 2020 I returned to UTS as an Associate Professor. With Kate Fletcher, Mathilda Tham and Lynda Grose, I am a founding member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.
Copyright Timo Rissanen 2006-2023.