Design - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Nat Stratos is a multi-disciplinary design practitioner in the Fashion and Textile industry and is interested in how we might create design tools and prototypes for designers and users to create value-led artefacts, knowledge-led practices, and new circular fashion economies towards sustainable fashion and textiles futures. Nat is the founder of start-up Neo3DT , a circular apparel and 3D print jewellery concept with a closed-loop take-back service.Practicing and consulting for 23 years as a Textile, Fashion, and Costume designer, Nat designs defence issue for the Army, RAN, and RAAF, services a variety of ready to wear fashion retailers and wholesalers, notably adidas, Play Corp, Target, Big W, Anaconda and has worked in social innovation and cultural development for the Local Government as an Art Director and Costume Designer,Currently, Nat is completing a Master of Design Futures at RMIT, her research area is circular design, zero-waste design, and 3D visualisation and is investigating how methodologies Co-design, Systems thinking and Transition design might address the fashion and textile socio-technical systems wicked problems in the context of planetary boundaries and human equality.