Dr Patricia Flanagan

Dr. Patricia Flanagan is an artist, designer and academic whose work is represented in private and public collections in Australia, Ireland, Germany, Italy and China. Tricia has an extensive international exhibition portfolio including the Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art and Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien Berlin and was the representative for Oceania at the Tournai Contemporary Textiles Biennial Belgium. Tricia's work has, at its foundation, a systems thinking approach. Her practice includes, critical and speculative wearables, site-specific sculptural installation, social sculpture and performance installation, often combining hand crafted art and design practices with digital technologies. Tricia established the Wearables Lab at the Academy of Visual Art at Hong Kong Baptist University in 2009. She currently works as a Lecturer for the University of New South Wales in the School of Art and Design, Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture where she is the co-director of the Interactive Media Lab and Lead Researcher Wearables at the Creative Robotics Lab. Art and Design; Textiles; Wearables; Tangible Embodied HCI; Future Materials; Generative Design; Agile Manufacturing; New Materialism; Speculative Critical Design; Posthumanism; Co-Design; Public Art; Design Anthropology; Craft; Intangible Cultural Heritage; Environmental Humanities