Teodora Bujdei
Textile Design BA Hons
Central Saint Martins UAL
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles /
Location: London, United Kingdom
Teodora Bujdei
First Name: Teodora
Last Name: Bujdei
Specialisms: Textiles - Knit / Sustainable Fashion/Textiles
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My Location: London, United Kingdom
University / College: Central Saint Martins UAL
Course / Program Title: Textile Design BA Hons
About
I am a knit textile designer whose research-led practice explores the intersections of sustainability, material innovation, and narrative. Informed by posthumanist perspectives, my work challenges anthropocentric approaches to design by acknowledging the agency of materials and the interconnectedness of human and non-human systems.
Growing up in a rural community, where resourcefulness was a necessity, shaped my sensitivity toward waste and the potential of overlooked materials. This mindset continues to inform my creative process, in which everyday elements are reconsidered as active agents in shaping material meaning and textile language. By combining traditional craft techniques with experimental processes through a slow-making methodology, I aim to develop textiles that are both materially responsible and conceptually reflective, positioning textile practice as a critical space for ecological responsibility and material storytelling.
What do we know about (Un)known?
My Final Major Project, "What Do We Know About the (Un)known?", is a conceptual, sustainability-led textile exploration that investigates material agency through a posthumanist lens. Emerging from personal dislocations - solo travel in Korea and the rupture of my bathroom during renovation - the project frames the unknown not as absence, but as a generative condition where matter and meaning co-emerge. Working with fish scales and chitosan-based bioplastic (Korea) and PTFE tape (Bathroom), I transformed each material through casting, spinning, dyeing, pigment activation, and slow textile processes such as archival needlework and Korean knotting. These embodied methods foreground material responsiveness and challenge the subject–object binary. The resulting works position textiles as onto-epistemological sites - spaces where knowing and being arise through making - and invite a multisensory, open-ended encounter with the unknown. Sustainable practice becomes relational and speculative, with materials acting as co-constitutive agents in shaping knowledge and lived experience.
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