Profile statement
Jennifer Whitty is a Senior Lecturer of Design, teaching sustainable systems across the School of Design. Her work aims to usher in a new era of deep systemic change for global fashion, that is expansive and diverse, rooted in social and environmental justice. She specialises in reimagining mindsets, models, and systems for fashion through the integration of theory, and practice.
Jennifer publishes and exhibits widely on fashion and sustainability in both academic and popular media, working with various global clients including Conde Nast, Future Learn, and SERO. She strongly believes in global diversity and consideration of multiple worldviews and has been engaged in multi-staged sustainable fashion projects in mainland China since 2015 as one of the first foreign recipients of the prestigious Thousand Talents Program Scholarship (海外高层次人才引进计划). Her work (teaching and research) aims to usher in a new era of deep systemic change for global fashion, that is decolonial, holistic, expansive and diverse, rooted in social and environmental justice. She specialises in reimagining mindsets, models, and systems for fashion through the integration of theory, and practice. Some of her latest works examine fashion as part of nature and energy, for wellness, through the lens of Indigenous Knowledge, Taoism, degrowth, service design, and conscious consumption.