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Ruby Hoette is a Senior Lecturer in Design and Programme Lead for MA Design Expanded Practice at Goldsmiths, University of London. She serves as External Examiner for ArtEZ University of the Arts and the Swedish School of Textiles at University of Borås, and is a Member of the External Board for the Austrian Center for Fashion Research. Her academic work focuses on expanding the boundaries of fashion practice through critical and experimental approaches.
Hoette holds a BA from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Netherlands) and an MFA from Parsons, The New School (USA). Her educational background informs her interdisciplinary approach that bridges theory and practice in fashion design.
Ruby Hoette's research explores fashion as a cultural index of social and economic interactions, positioning garments as unique artifacts carrying traces of social, cultural and economic transactions. Her work unpicks and reconfigures relationships between garment and system, theory and practice, seeking to expand what constitutes 'fashion practice' through critical methodologies. Key research areas include expanded fashion practice, conversational fashion methodologies, garment-system relationships, and spatial approaches to fashion through mapping and cartography.
Her publication portfolio reveals a consistent focus on challenging conventional fashion paradigms through practice-led research. Hoette's work demonstrates how fashion can serve as a lens for examining broader social, cultural, political and economic contexts. She consistently explores how fashion interfaces with other fields and how it can be reimagined through critical and experimental approaches that emphasize dialogue, mapping, and expanded definitions of practice.
As an educator, Hoette is a third-year tutor on BA Design Publications and contributes to the MA Design Expanded Practice program at Goldsmiths, where she leads the Fashions and Embodiment Studio. Her teaching philosophy emphasizes creating conditions that support the intersection of teaching, learning, and research across disciplines, with a commitment to nurturing non-dominant and experimental approaches to practice and research as legitimate forms of knowledge production.
Hoette leads several significant research initiatives including MODUS - an international platform for expanded fashion practice developed in collaboration with Caroline Stevenson and Roland Brauchli, Conversation Pieces - an investigation into garments as discursive objects, and Patternmapping - a project exploring physical, geographical and political orientations in relation to global fashion infrastructures. These projects form interconnected strands of her research that collectively push the boundaries of fashion practice and discourse.
