Research interests / activities
Associate Professor Timo Rissanen is a fashion and textiles researcher and the UTS academic lead of the UTS/TAFE NSW Centre of Excellence in Sustainable Fashion and Textiles. He investigates the interconnection between sustainability and social justice as they relate to the contemporary fashion industry. Timo’s practice-based research sits firmly within the UTS School of Design’s Material Ecologies theme. He has a growing interest in soil-to-soil fibre systems and Earth Logic, a research framework developed by Kate Fletcher and Mathilda Tham that puts natural systems at the forefront of fashion and textiles practice, as well as in the development of systems-level solutions to solving the challenges of fashion manufacturing waste.