Anne Louise Bang

Anne Louise Bang is a Research Manager of Design for Longevity and a Senior Associate Professor in Design & Sustainability at the Centre for Applied Research in Textiles, Design & Circularity at VIA University College. The Centre supports the largest Danish design and business education for the creative industries. Bang is a member of the management group, where she is a driving force in design research as well as building the cross-sector consortia that characterizes the center’s research profile. In 2022-24 she was appointed a Professor II at University of South-Eastern Norway, where she was affiliated to the Center for Embodied Making and Learning with a leading role in the Making & Materiality Group. Bang’s most significant research contribution lies within fashion and textile design, and it supports the green transition of the related industries. Her research is related to the systems and structures constituting the industry and includes research about alternative materials, the use and re-use of these, and the importance of prototypes in the light of circular economy. Moreover, Bang’s research impact is within dialogue tools with industry stakeholders, consumers and users to generate knowledge about interaction with and use of clothing and textiles. The collaboration with industry stakeholders ensures that her research diffuses into the industry and supports the necessary paradigm change of the industry. This is well connected to her research in design methodology, where she has contributed to experimental and practice-based research and ways in which design practitioners can generate knowledge using design tools and craftmanship.