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Ms Alia Parker is a Lecturer in Design at The Australian National University's School of Art & Design. Her practice bridges transdisciplinary design, science, and ethics, focusing on collaborations with non-human organisms like fungi and biomaterials. She explores repair, transformation, and ecological precarity through textiles, fashion, and installation art.
- Education: MPhil (UNSW), Master of Fashion & Textiles (RMIT), Bachelor of Design (UNSW)
Research interests include bio-design methodologies, posthuman ethics, and speculative futures. Recent projects include exhibitions at Canberra Contemporary Art Space (2023) and Bankstown Biennale (2020). Her collaborative paper with Stephen Loo on fungal care was published in Performance Research Journal (2023).
Recipient of the 2022 Northern Beaches Environmental Art Prize (wearable category), Parker has exhibited nationally and internationally, including Sydney Design Festival and Melbourne Design Festival. She co-leads the Food as Design Material in Off-centre Extreme Environments project (2024–2025), exploring Arctic-Australian cross-disciplinary collaborations.
Her work emphasizes experimental biomaterials, waste remediation, and ethical frameworks for co-designing with ecological systems in the Anthropocene.
