Katelyn Toth-Fejel
CSF Design School Associate
Katelyn is a designer, artist, lecturer and PhD researcher whose work centres on localism and the everyday social aspects of fashion and sustainability. Katelyn’s research brings together methods from art, design and the social sciences to to study issues of radical sustainability, with an emphases on localism and socially oriented clothing practices such as sharing and swapping. She was previously designer and co-director of the fair trade knitwear and accessories brand, Here Today Here Tomorrow and worked with Kate Fletcher on the international research project, Local Wisdom, which explored the ‘craft of use’.
Publications
Toth-Fejel, K. (2019) ‘Clothing landscapes: interdisciplinary map making methods for a relational understand fashion behaviours and place’, The Learning Network on Sustainability (LENS) Conference, Milan, 3-5 April 2019. Published in conference proceedings, Vol. 3, pp. 720-724.
Toth-Fejel, K., Crew, J. & Hesse, A. M.(2018) ‘Connected spaces: experimental and social business practises of Here Today Here Tomorrow’, What’s Going On? Global Fashion Conference, 31 October - 1 November 2018, Published in the conference proceedings.
Toth-Fejel, K. & Snare, E. (2018). ‘Residencies: mixed methods research investigating fashion through place’, What’s Going On? Global Fashion Conference, 31 October - 1 November 2018, Published in the conference proceedings.
Williams D. & Toth-Fejel, K. (2017) ‘The will and the skill in education for sustainability’, In: Filho W. L., Azeiteiro U. M., Alves, F. (eds) Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education, World Sustainability Series. Springer, Cham, pp. 79-94.
Fletcher, K. & Toth-Fejel, K. (2014) The Craft of Use Event - A publication of the Local Wisdom project. Centre for Sustainable Fashion: London. ISBN 978-1-906908-31-7.