Performance designer, researcher and writer Donatella Barbieri is senior research fellow and principal lecturer in design for performance at London College of Fashion: University of the Arts London. She is the author of Costume in Performance: Materiality, Culture and the Body, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. (Prague Quadrennial, 2019 Best Performance Design & Scenography Publication Award and shortlisted for the Society of Theatre Research Book Award) and founding editor of Studies in Costume and Performance. As a practice-centred researcher, she has authored articles and chapters for both performance and fashion scholarly publications while her costume-based practice has been performed and displayed in museums and other cultural sites such as the V&A and the British Library. Her long association with Prague Quadrennial includes the curation of PQ07 Scenofest costume workshops and the co-production of "LES/Forest" performance with Jana Zborilova at DAMU. Performance "Old into New" for PQ 11 was devised with performer Mary Kate Connolly, while "Wearing Space" at PQ15 was re-proposed in Oslo and Tallin. More recently she devised “Materials Interactions” in collaboration with an international group of designers and performers at PQ19. Her advancing of knowledge around costume through pedagogy includes the founding of the experimental MA in costume design for performance at LCF:UAL where she still teaches.