Aurélie Mosse, PhD, is a designer-researcher, teacher and consultant in the field of future materials. She works at the intersection of textile design, architecture and new materials/technologies, examining how they can inform more resilient and poetic perspectives on inhabiting the world, including working towards the formation of more sustainable creative industries. Teaching in the Textile and Material Design department at Master’s level, her pedagogy focuses on introducing research through design and new materials/processes in light of sustainable challenges and through the prism of a textile, materials, surface sensibility.

In 2015, she co-founded the Soft Matters research group at Ensadlab, Ecole des Arts Décoratifs, supporting the emergence of a first generation of PhDs in textile and apparel design while piloting research into active materials, biodesign, digital craft and soft actuators. She is currently the principal investigator of the ImpressioVivo project, which has been awarded the first ever JCJC grant from the French National Research Agency (ANR) to an art and design school for a practice-based design project looking at the 3D printing of bio-circular materials informed by bacteria. She is also one of the beneficiaries of the SOFTWEAR doctoral network funded by the European Commission’s MSCA program, focused on flexible actuators for wearables and exoskeletons, where she also operates as training manager. In 2019, she became an associate member of the Matters of Activity cluster (Weaving program) at Humboldt University, Germany, and joined the steering committee of the new special interest group (SIG) dedicated to interdisciplinary textile research at the Design Research Society (DRS) as well as the ArcInTex network. At the same time, she is exploring the issues of transgenerational transmission in her book “L’accent fantôme et autres impressions séfarades”, published by Presses Universitaires de Vincennes (2023).

Website http://www.softmatters.ensadlab.fr
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/softmatters_ensadlab/
ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3777-1055