Dr Victoria Geaney is a fashion-led researcher, practitioner and lecturer, and has recently completed her PhD at the Royal College of Art.  Through her practice-led research, Victoria interrogates and explores collaborative fashion and biology approaches through the lens of feminist new materialisms.  Her research is driven by process and her work operates at the intersections of microbiology and fashion design research. 

Victoria is part of the London Doctoral Design Centre (Arts and Humanities Research Council) and has initiated collaborations with synthetic biologists and microbiologists at Cambridge University, Surrey University, and Imperial College London.  She is regularly invited to speak about her research, including at: the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York; Amsterdam’s Waag Institute; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris; Munich Fabric Start; and the University of Western Australia.  Her practice has featured in a number of national and international exhibitions, including: Vienna Design Week, 3rd Istanbul Biennial, SHOWstudio Fashion Film Award and as part of Harvard's entry in the National Science Foundation’s ‘Big Ideas’ Competition, as well as in publications including: Wired, Nylon, U+Mag, Higgs magazine and Design Exchange.

Victoria’s Harvested Sunlight project with Dr Simon Park is included in Rachel Armstrong’s Experimental Architecture: Designing the Unknown book (2020).  Victoria has also contributed a chapter to Leslie Atzmon's Design and Science book (forthcoming 2022).  Her PhD thesis will be available to access digitally in February 2022.

PhD Thesis

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A Fashion-Led Research Investigation into Collaboration Between Fashion Design Research and Biology