Georgia McCorkill

Dr. Georgia McCorkill

Senior Lecturer
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  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision

About

Georgia McCorkill is a senior lecturer in design in the School of Fashion and Textiles. Her practice-based research explores sustainable design strategies applicable to bespoke and micropreneur contexts such as upcycling, repair, and co-design. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and festivals within Australia. Her current project Fashion Fix investigates garment repair from industry, community, creative and activist perspectives. Georgia has applied her research into sustainable and circular design to the development and delivery at scale of subjects that embed new processes for creating and making from textile waste as a core competency for students in the Bachelor of Fashion (Design).

UN sustainable development goals

  • 12 Responsible Consumption and Production
  • 13 Climate Action
  • 10 Reduced Inequalities
  • 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

Supervisor projects

  • Idle to Active Dresses: Design Explorations Through Making and Wearing
  • 7 Aug 2023
  • RE-kin-DLE positioning reuse at the centre of fashion practice through the testing of scalable methods of redesign and remanufacture
  • 6 Jan 2022
  • Memories through Miniature Garments Re-enlivening Historical Australian Fashion Practice
  • 1 Oct 2018
  • Felt – Stitching. A Model for Expanded Sensory Embroidery-Making Practice
  • 26 Sep 2018
  • Textile Urban Metabolism: Investigating the Flows of Unwanted Textiles Throughout the Urban Environment
  • 12 Jun 2018

Teaching interests

Georgia is a senior lecturer in the Bachelor of Fashion (Design) at RMIT University where she teaches design studios that explore ethical, sustainable, local or political issues through practical and creative design development and making.

Research interests

Design Practice Research, Making Practices, Designing Through Making, Co-design, Special Occasionwear, Design Activism, Sustainable Fashion, Product Service Systems in Fashion, Repair and Mending
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