Dr Holly McQuillan
Holly McQuillan is Assistant Professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems TU Delft, where her research explores the design and development of complex interconnected fibre-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design, manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms.
Oriented through a holistic lens, her research builds on her experience developing and disseminating the field of zero waste fashion design, and advocates for a new understanding of the relationship between designer and system, material, and form to conceptualise and prototype alternative futures.
Publications:
2024
AnimaTo: Designing a Multimorphic Textile Artefact for Performativity
Alice Buso, Holly Mcquillan, Kaspar Jansen, Elvin Karana
Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference
(Re) activate,(Re) direct,(Re) arrange: Exploring the Design Space of Direct Interactions with Flavobacteria
Clarice Risseeuw, Holly Mcquillan, Joana Martins, Elvin Karana
Design for serene textile experiences: A toolkit
Stefano Parisi, Holly McQuillan, Elvin Karana
2023
Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-forms as a Material-Driven Design Approach for HCI
Holly McQuillan & Elvin Karana
Weaving Textile-form Interfaces: A Material-Driven Design Journey
Alice Buso, Holly McQuillan, Milou Voorwinden & Elvin Karana
Methods for Designing Woven Textile-forms: Examples from a pedagogical textile design workshop