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

acm.org

Design for serene textile experiences: A toolkit

Stefano Parisi, Holly McQuillan, Elvin Karana

Design Research Society

2023

Conformal, Seamless, Sustainable: Multimorphic Textile-forms as a Material-Driven Design Approach for HCI

Holly McQuillan & Elvin Karana

Proceedings of the 2023 ACM CHI Conference

Weaving Textile-form Interfaces: A Material-Driven Design Journey

Alice Buso, Holly McQuillan, Milou Voorwinden & Elvin Karana

acm.org

Methods for Designing Woven Textile-forms: Examples from a pedagogical textile design workshop

Juri-Apollo Drews, Holly McQuillan & Aurelie Mosse

Design Research Society