Patricia Wu Wu is an interdisciplinary designer, researcher and educator. Her practice operates at the intersection of fashion, computational design, and data to investigate new ways of thinking and designing with the body in response to planetary scale issues. Patricia holds a practice-based PhD in Design from the University of Edinburgh (2021), titled ‘An Expanded Fashion Practice Towards Interfacing the Anthropocene’. Through this PhD, she explored fashion as a narrative interface, translating environmental data into multi-modal works spanning across 3D printed wearables, diagrams, visualisations, generative animations and installation.

Her work has been exhibited and presented at international events, galleries and museums, including Milan Design Week, Berlin Fashion Film Festival, Disseny Hub Barcelona, Fondazione Mondo Digitale, British Museum, Arebyte Gallery, Talbot Rice Gallery and the BBC Broadcasting House as part of the Bridging Responsible AI Divides (BRAID) Programme Launch. Key publications have appeared in peer-reviewed design journals 'ELISAVA Temes de Disseny', international conferences 'The Association of Fashion & Textiles: Futurescan 5', and a contributing chapter in 'Radical Fashion Exercises'.

Prior to joining the Fashion department, Patricia has taught in the MA/MSc Design Informatics program for 5 years, for courses: 'Histories & Futures of Technology' (DESI11073) and ‘Design with Data’ (DESI11025). Her teaching portfolio extends across the School of Design, where she contributed to Design and Screen Cultures courses: ‘Surfaces & Screens’ (DESI10123); ‘Design & Screen Cultures 4’ (DESI10052) and course modules such as ‘Disseminating Design Practices’ (DESI11099); ‘Body, Identity & Technology’ (DESI11176). This extensive cross-disciplinary experience has shaped Patricia's pedagogical approach, where the body becomes both subject and medium of inquiry.

Patricia has previously worked on diverse funded research projects, such as ‘AI Fashion Co-creation’ (2021), a collaboration between The University of Edinburgh, University of Arts London and fashion tech company Away to Mars, where she developed unique computationally designed datasets for an AI-powered commercial prototype. She has also worked as a research assistant on the ‘Experiential AI Pilot Study’ (2019) which subsequently led to the launch of The New Real hub. The Study investigated the role of artistic practice in revealing the complexities behind AI systems, involving an artist residency with Ars Electronica and Edinburgh International Festival.

Patricia was a reviewer for the 35th International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference (2022) ‘Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society’ at Keele University. Between 2023-2024, Patricia was the guest editor for RchD: Creación y Pensamiento (Creation and Thought), Vol. 9, No.16, a peer-reviewed design journal established within the Design Department at University of Chile.

Patricia holds a Masters degree in Fashion & Textiles at the Glasgow School of Art, with previous industry experience at renowned fashion studios such as Iris van Herpen, where she developed experimental approaches to form-making.