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Ms Emma Peters

Ms Emma Peters

Lecturer

Master of Design (Hons)

Arts, Design & Architecture (ADA)
School of Art & Design

Emma Peters is an Education Focussed Associate Lecturer and PhD candidate at Art and Design, ADA, UNSW, exploring circular design pathways for textiles.

Emma’s research operates at the nexus of industry and academia where practice-led, ’research through design’ methods generate new opportunities for discarded interior textiles and also aims to progress the economic benefits of circular economy systems for the bedlinen industry of Australia.

Since working as a commercial textile designer with several of Australia’s leading homeware brands, Emma has been awarded a Master of Design, published research, exhibited as a solo artist and is a founding member of the Circular Textile Lab, a UNSW research group.
E-mail
emma.peters@unsw.edu.au
  • Journal articles | 2021
    Peters E, 2021, 'A Light Touch: Small-scale sourcing of ethical and sustainable wool for designer-makers', Raw Assembly Textile Sourcing Magazine, 4, pp. 132 - 134, https://www.rawassembly.com/issue-04-new-beginnings
    Journal articles | 2021
    Peters E, 2021, 'Sleeping Soundly: Slow and Circular Bedlinen', Raw Assembly, pp. 58 - 59, https://www.rawassembly.com/the-sourcing-magazine-03-edition
    Journal articles | 2014
    Peters EC, 2014, 'The mnemonic qualities of textiles: Sustaining lifelong attachment', craft + design enquiry, pp. 75 - 93, http://press.anu.edu.au/titles/craftdesign-enquiry/
  • Conference Papers | 2023
    Peters E; Green R; Crea T; Mills E; Loo S, 2023, '!Do Something: Provoking sustainable behaviour change through collective design initiatives', in WDO Research and Education Forum Tokyo 2023 Proceedings, World Design Organization, Tokyo, pp. 142 - 148, presented at World Design Organization Research & Education Forum, Tokyo, 27 October 2023 - 29 October 2023, https://wdo.org/programmes/world-design-assembly/wda-2023/wdo-research-and-education-forum-2023/
    Curatorial Outputs | 2022
    Crea T; Loo S; Mills E; Peters E, 2022, !Do Something, exhibited at: UNSW Library, Sydney, 12 September 2022 - 18 November 2022, https://www.library.unsw.edu.au/about-unsw-library/exhibitions-program/do-something
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2022
    Peters E, 2022, Segue, Second Look: Remade and reimagined textiles, Tamworth Regional Gallery, 03 December 2022 - 29 January 2023, medium: Repurposed cotton and wool
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2021
    Peters E, 2021, Above & Below, Second Look: Handmade textiles, Barometer Gallery, Paddington, 06 October 2021 - 24 October 2021, medium: Silk, copper filament, at: http://barometer.net.au/exhibitions/second-look-handmade-textiles/
    Conference Posters | 2021
    Thiele K; Wardrop J; Birzniece V; Campbell P; Crea T; Gooi C; Gribble L; Honson V; Helme-Guizon L; Kim J; Maloney C; Peters E; Mills E; Costello E, 2021, 'Connecting Threads – Enriching the EF Community', Sydney, Australia, presented at UNSW Office of the PVC Education 2020 Learning and Teaching Forum, Sydney, Australia, 21 November 2021 - 21 November 2020, https://viewer.joomag.com/education-festival-poster-ebooklet-2021/0772802001637307966?short&
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2020
    Peters E, 2020, O. scribula I & II, The Sound of Blue, Sturt Gallery, Mittagong, 11 December 2020 - 07 February 2021, medium: Silk & Wool, at: https://www.sturt.nsw.edu.au/exhibitions/special-displays
    Creative Written Works | 2015
    Peters EC; Mitchell L; Hanrahan B; Bell R, 2015, Topography of Memory, Labours of Love: Australian Quilts 1845 - 2015, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre
    Creative Works (non-textual) | 2015
    Peters EC, 2015, Topology of Memory, Labour of Love: Australian Quilts 1845 - 2015, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, 08 August 2015 - 05 October 2015, medium: Wool, Silk, at: http://www.sutherlandshire.nsw.gov.au/Community/Hazelhurst/Exhibitions/Labours-of-Love-Australian-Quilts-1845-2015