Dr. Jenny Underwood
Details
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College: Fashion & Textiles
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Department: Fashion & Textiles
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Campus: Brunswick Australia
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jenny.underwood@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-4519-3745
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Dr Jenny Underwood is the Associate Dean Research and Innovation in the School of Fashion and Textiles. Her research is interdisciplinary, and practice-based to develop material-led design strategies and systems-based approaches for responsible design innovation in the context of fashion and architecture. She is recognised internationally as a leading expert in advanced knit design and 3d seamless knitting technology.
She is also an experienced senior supervisor, having supervised some of the first practice-based research PhDs, within the field of fashion and textile design internationally.
Dr Jenny Underwood and Dr Leanne Zilka are leaders of the Floppy Lab - a collaborative research lab that sits across architecture, fashion and textile design. Situated between Brunswick and City campuses in Melbourne, Australia. For more information contact Leanne or Jenny.
Supervisor projects
- Knitted Structures for Smart Textiles with Enhanced Comfort and Performance
- 22 Sep 2024
- Spacesuits for Preserving Human Health and Mobility
- 14 Dec 2023
- Research proposal for Sustainable Transformation of Unreal Fur
- 5 Jul 2023
- Sustainable methods of fashion production: Developing textile manufacturing practices for the holistic application of colour to fabrics
- 8 Feb 2023
- Future Anxieties: XR in Speculative Critical Design
- 14 Sep 2022
- Collaborations for Remake: Participation in Practice
- 28 Feb 2022
- Material-Touch-Emotions: An Approach to Understanding and Categorising Textile Materials Based on Emotional Responses to Touch
- 16 Jan 2020
- Fashion Futuring: A Methodology For Enacting Values-Driven Transitions Towards Sustainability
- 15 Apr 2019
- Intra-active Fashion
- 8 Feb 2019
- Pursuing Sustainable Futures in Vocational Textile Design Education
- 1 Mar 2018
- Textile Urban Metabolism: Investigating the Flows of Unwanted Textiles Throughout the Urban Environment
- 3 Jul 2017
- Antifragile - A Textile Design Practice to Hypothesise a Future Scenario for Sustainable Fashion
- 2 Mar 2015
- EMBEDDING SURFACE IMAGERY: Exploring a hybrid textile design practice - the Desktop Atelier
- 3 Mar 2014
- A Body-neutral Inclusive Practice for Dress and Clothing
- 4 Mar 2013
- The Practice of `Handmade' in the Contemporary Designer-Maker Marketplaces of Melbourne
- 1 Mar 2010
- Post-material making: explorations for a materially connected textile design practice
- 1 Mar 2010
Teaching interests
Supervisor interest areas:
- Fashion and textile design practice
-Sustainability
-Design innovation
-Interdisciplinary methods
-Digital fashion technologies
-3d knitting
-Education for Sustainability
Programs
-BP326 - Bachelor of Fashion and Textiles (Sustainable Innovation)
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/fashion/fashion-and-textiles)
-BP121 - Bachelor of Textiles (Design)
(https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/fashion/fashion-and-textiles)
Research interests
Design innovation, Interdisciplinary methods, Textile design, Digital fashion technologies, 3d knitting, Fashion and textiles sustainability, Education for Sustainability
