Alia Parker is an award-winning experimental textile and fashion designer and researcher investigating the nexus of biology and design to provoke more sustainable and ethical ways of engaging with materiality. Working with more-than-human organisms such as fungi and post-consumer waste, she utilises expanded and process-based methodologies that are collaborative in nature to produce innovative outcomes. Alia has worked in the fashion and textile industry in New York and exhibited her work widely. Her research interests include experimental and critical fashion and textile design, posthuman and multispecies ethics and philosophies of care.

Alia is a Lecturer in Design at the Australian National University and a current Scientia PhD candidate at UNSW Art & Design. She holds a Master of Philosophy (UNSW), Master of Fashion & Textiles (RMIT) and a Bachelor of Design (UNSW).