Helga Lára Halldórsdóttir
Helga Lára Halldórsdóttir is a PhD candidate in fashion design at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås. Before, she has completed a BA degree in fashion design at The Iceland University of the Arts in 2015, followed with an MA degree in fashion design from The Swedish School of Textiles in 2018. In-between and following her studies she has worked as a fashion designer in London, Paris, Amsterdam and Reykjavík along with being a part time lecturer at The Iceland University of the Arts and The Reykjavík School of Visual Arts. Helga’s work has been exhibited internationally and she is involved in various interdisciplinary collaborative projects and continues to do so within her PhD studies. She began her PhD research in Sweden in November 2021 and currently explores care behaviour in its materiality between object and individual through play and interaction to generate emotionally intelligent objects.