SPACE BETWEEN

Space Between was founded by Senior Lecturers and sustainable fashion researchers Jennifer Whitty and Holly McQuillan, while working at Massey University's award-winning School of Design (SoD), at the College of Creative Arts, New Zealand. Massey was ranked 1st in Asia-Pacific in 2019 by Red Dot and SoD was the only school in Australasia to be included in the top 10. Space Between was instigated to fill a gap between tertiary education and industry, bringing their academic research and others into an ‘applied' space. Operating in a third space, between university, industry and civic communities, it acted as a platform for design activism, social innovation, sustainable mindsets, models, materials, systems and methods for fashion and textile design... During Space Between's time at Massey it occupied both the physical and digital realm. A vibrant studio of practitioners, and an online community of supporters formed this ecology of work. It connected university research and external..