Angella Mackey is a designer, researcher and educator in the Netherlands.
She teaches at the M.Sc. Digital Design programme at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, and is a researcher with the Civic Interaction Design research cluster. She holds a doctorate degree from the Eindhoven University of Technology in interactive textiles as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie doctoral fellow with the ArcInTex ETN. Her PhD thesis can be accessed HERE.
PAST WORK: From 2007-2015, Mackey’s design practise investigated wearable technologies in art, research and commercial contexts. She designed hyper-functional garments in a wide range of industries and lectured on the design challenges of integrating electronics into fashion. Notably, she founded Vega Wearable Light, a line of illuminated outerwear for style-conscious cyclists from 2010-2014 in Gothenburg, Sweden.
MOST CURRENT WORK: Mackey's research currently explores solar energy and more-than-human understandings of it. Read more about that HERE.
See an interview with Mackey - HERE
Read an interview with Mackey - HERE
More videos - HERE
contact: hello@angella.ca