Timo rissanen biography of rory

by Mae Colburn

When I met Timo Rissanen, he was fielding a flurry of emails and phone calls.

Timo Rissanen, associate professor at the University of Technology Sydney and founding member of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.

Communicating Climate Urgency: Dr. Zoë Sadokierski and Dr. Timo Rissanen on the Power of Storytelling in the Sixth Extinction.

Timo Rissanen is a researcher, educator, artist and designer working across fashion, art and sustainability.

She is an independent researcher, blogger, and media consultant writing about sustainability and fashion digitalities in Africa.

Papers of the playwright Brian Friel, comprising material relating to his early days as a short story writer, and the subsequent writing and production of.

His office was crowded with books. Sample garments were piled next to the door. The arrangement was clearly deliberate, testament to his belief in the productive synthesis of research and design. Rissanen is one of few academics globally to bear the word 'sustainability' in his title.

Special thanks to Alice Payne and Timo Rissanen whose encouragement gave me the confidence to undertake this project.

He developed the idea of Zero Waste fashion in his P.h.D. dissertation, “Fashion Creation without Fabric Waste Creation.”  Now, he’s teaching Zero Waste at Parsons the New School for Design, where he is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability.

MC: How did sustainability inform your own education?

TR: Zero waste fashion design started for me in 1999.

We had to do a written dissertation in our final year of undergraduate before we went into final collection, and mine was on Ma