Keynote speakers
Keynote speaker: Environment and ethics
Dr. Eija Nieminen
D.Sc.(Techn.)
Director
Designium innovation centre
University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland
Read Dr. Eija Nieminen`s abstract : Sustainable Design - Social Innovation?
Eija Nieminen, Dr. tech, is director of Designium Innovation Centre at University of Art and Design, Helsinki, Finland. She has worked in the Finnish textile and design industry in managerial positions, overseeing product development and marketing for companies such as Fiskars Pic and Lindström Ltd. Dr Nieminen has worked as research director at University College of Borås, and as researcher at Tampere University of Technology and Finnish Environment Institute. In addition to her work at Designium, she has continued her research in textile technology and design as associate professor at the Institute of Fibre Materials Science, Tampere University of Technology. She has published articles and lectured internationally on fiber technology and environmental research.
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Keynote speaker: Visualisations of clothes, fashion and textiles
Pamela Church-Gibson
Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies
London College of Fashion, UK
Read Pamela Church Gibson`s abstract : Masculinity in the new millennium: Spectacle, performance, dress and identity
Pamela Church Gibson is Reader in Cultural and Historical Studies at the London College of Fashion. She has published widely on film, fashion, fandom, history
and heritage. She has published three co-edited anthologies, including
"Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations, Analysis" (2001) and the "Oxford Guide to Film Studies" (1998). She most recently edited "More Dirty Looks: Gender, Power, Pornography"(2004) for the British Film Institute and helped to compile their "Art and Design Source Book". Currently, she is working with the relationship between cities, cinema, consumption and gender in the post-war period.
In addition to the keynote lecture, Pamela Church Gibson will speak at The Norwegian Film Institute, Tuesday 15 May, introducing a small film festival that focuses on the relationship between film and fashion.
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Keynote speaker: Materiality and technology
Dr. Alexandra Palmer
Senior Curator
Nora E. Vaughan Fashion Curatorship
Textiles & Costume
Department of World Cultures
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada
Read Dr. Alexandra Palmer`s abstract: Material Remains: Design, Techology and History
Dr Alexandra Palmer is Senior Curator, Textile and Costume Section of the Royal Ontario Museum, where she holds the Nora E. Vaughan Curatorship. Palmer is also teaching as a professor at the University of Toronto. Her academic background includes art history, history of textiles and dress, and a PhD in design history. In addition to teaching and lecturing, Palmer has curated several exhibitions and also worked as a designer. Her research interests cover the history of western fashion and textile with emphasis on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. She has published extensively and a lot of her work is based on the ROM’s costume collections.
Recently she has published on themes like second-hand dress and fashion seen from a Canadian perspective. Published books include "Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion" (2005), co-edited with Hazel Clark, "Fashion: A Canadian Perspective" (2004), (editor), and "Couture & Commerce: The transatlantic fashion trade in the 1950s" (2001). Currently Palmer is working with twentieth century Haute Couture and printed textiles.