Donna Sgro
interested in fashioning transformation
Australia °1975
research interests: fashion design, tacit knowledge, making, design, pattern cutting, creative practice, creative pattern cutting, creative process, creative methodologies
affiliation: University of Technology Sydney
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Donna Sgro is a fashion and textile design practitioner, and lecturer in the School of Design at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Donna works in the Fashion & Textile Program and has taught in both Interdisciplinary Design and Design Studies programs across six disciplines within the school, since 2009.
Donna’s research is based in the creative practice of fashion and textile design. Her research focuses on ways to enhance and share tacit knowledge of creative making practices. Her doctorate (2018) was in the area of creative pattern cutting for fashion design, and through her practice she continues to advance her method of Dynamic Cutting, in the context of performance design since 2019. Donna is a Powerhouse Research Fellow (2023) working on Lace Codes, a collaborative project with textile artist and academic, Dr Cecilia Heffer (UTS).