Head of The Evelyn Burgoyne Textile Innovation Lab
Assistant Professor of Fashion Design
Office Phone: (513) 556-4362
Office Location: Aronoff Room 6459
Email: ashley.kubley@uc.edu
Ashley Newsome Kubley has over 15 years of education and professional experience in the fashion design, apparel production and textiles industries. She is passionate about the advancement of maker culture as well as the implementation socially + environmentally sustainable practices in the apparel industry. Her research focuses on bridging the gap between historical techniques and contemporary technologies, pursuing projects at the intersection of history and new technological innovations specific to textiles. She also uses her textile and apparel technology background to explore the potential for smart textile structures, new material composites and fabrications, and wearable technology applications that fuse nature and tech together. Working on interdisciplinary teams with engineers, medicine, and business where collaboration is the key to innovation. Her body of work on these emergent topics continues to grow as the push for sustainable, tech enabled futures become critical.