Ushnah Amjad
Ushnah Amjad is a fashion researcher and designer with a diverse background in the international fashion industry. She studies transitions in fashion ecologies in response to technological, political, and socio-cultural shifts to elucidate their ramifications for fashion design, dissemination, consumption, engagement, and education.
Her doctoral research focuses on decoloniality and anti-imperialism in digital fashion, particularly exploring the data-driven domains of platformized fashion and surveillance fashion. She engages with both academic and public discourse on digital fashion through the lenses of inclusion, intersectionality, and resistance. Ushnah problematizes underexplored areas at the intersections of fashion, politics, and data, aiming to cultivate long-term, decolonial, and subversive fashion interventions for the future.
She was previously a research member in the consortium . Currently, she is a member of the Design Culture Research Group at the Department of Design at Aalto University and affiliated with the network of Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) Research at Aalto.