Julia Valle Noronha

I am Assistant Professor in Fashion Design at the Department of Design and work across the research groups Empirica and Fashion/Textiles Futures. My work focuses on practice research in fashion design, with a particular interest in integrating academic research into fashion design practice. This includes, for example, wearing methodologies, alternative knowledge systems, wearer-clothing relationships and academia-industry collaborations for more responsible futures. 

In the years 2026-2028 I teach the courses Experimental Fashion and Texile Design and Advanced 3D Shaping at the Fashion and Textile Design major. In addition, I advise and supervise master's students and doctoral researchers. 

I am currently working as the PI of the MAST Network — Making knowledge for sustainable transformations project. 

My doctoral dissertation, Becoming with Clothes, looked into the relationship between people and the things they wear and how wearing (and caring) becomes a site of knowledge and aesthetics production in which both clothing and people deeply affect each other. You can read it here (open access). 

www.juliavalle.com