Dr. Timo Rissanen

Editorial Board Member

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)
 

Timo Rissanen PhD is an educator, scholar, designer, and artist. He is an associate professor of fashion and textiles at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Prior to UTS he was an associate professor of fashion design and sustainability at Parsons School of Design, The New School. He was born in Finland and trained as a fashion designer at the UTS. Rissanen completed a PhD on zero waste fashion design at UTS in 2013. As an artist he has focused on nature, politics, and love through installation, performance, and cross-stitched poetry. Rissanen has co-published two books on fashion and sustainability, Shaping Sustainable Fashion with Gwilt in 2011 and Zero Waste Fashion Design with McQuillan in 2016.