Louise is a fashion designer, maker and researcher. Having worked in-house for brands such as Roksanda and Toogood, she has rich experience of the fashion supply chain: from textile manufacture through design, product development, production and ultimately delivering to the market. At the RCA she lectures on the study platform ‘Systems’ and contributes to academic research within the Fashion Department and the Material Science Research Centre. Her interest lies in transparency, craft, manufacture and their combined communication. Core skills and competencies include:

• Future fashion systems and business models
• Materiality and make, from craft to industrial scales
• Communication and storytelling surrounding provenance and manufacture

Philippa has an interdisciplinary practice developed over twenty five years as an academic, researcher, international designer, editor, curator, strategist and artist within the field of digital woven textiles and materials. Philippa’s primary research interests lie in developing disruptive approaches to 2D and 3D digital industrial manufacturing, woven jacquard loom methods, in collaboration with industry-leading to novel design solutions. She also manages the Woven Textile Pathway at CSM, is part of the Textile Futures Research Community and exhibits jacquard woven art works globally. Additionally, Philippa edits The Weave Shed, an open source online resource site, and blog for professional weavers and is Co-founder of Studio Houndstooth; a collaborative studio creating socially innovated projects that use methods of textile making to bring together industry and the local community. Core skills and competencies include:

• Design innovation, Education, and Research Leadership – sustainable digital woven textiles and materials.
• Academic and industry knowledge exchange  innovation
• Project management