Responsibilities
Associate Professor "Design, Redesign and Sewing of Clothes"
Lecturer and supervisor at the Master in Traditional Art
Competences
PhD Cultur Studies: Fit step in ready-to-wear clothing - Towards a reduction of garment disposal in view of sustainability, University of Southeeastern Norway
MA in Traditional Art: Green Fashion - Everyday clothing for long-term use, Telemark University College
BA in Clothing Design, Oslo Academy of the Arts
BA in Folk Art Textile, Telemark University College
One year program in Design and Sewing of clothes, Oslo University College
One year program in Creative Machine Knitting I and II, Telemark University College
One year program Einar Granum School of Art
Certified Dressmaker and Tailor
Practical Pedagogical Education for Vocational Design and Crafts, OsloMet
Veronika Glitsch has worked with her clothing brand 'Rethink' since 2005 and has prepared 14 independent collections with a total of around 500 unique clothing items. The collections have been shown in galleries and design sales and had several exhibitions, including at Oslo Fashion Week. She works with environmentally friendly materials in the form of organic sfabrics and recycled materials.
Veronika holds courses in Design, Redesign, Pattern construction and tailoring for a number of different course organizers in Norway and Sweden. See more at www.veronikaglitsch.no or @veronikaglitsch
Publications
January 2020:
Glitsch, V. S. (2020). Fit step in ready-to-wear clothing - Towards a reduction of garment disposal in view of sustainability. (Doctoral dissertation). University of Southeast Norway, Rauland.
June 2017:
Glitsch, Veronika: ”Fit in ready-to-wear clothing - Why people dispose garments before they are worn out” in Design for a Sustainable Culture Perspectives, Practices and Education (Edited by Astrid Skjerven and Janne Beate Reitan) Routledge. The anthology is part of the series: Routledge Studies in Culture and Sustainable Development (Series Editors: Katriina Soini and Joost Dessein). ISBN: 978-1-138-71490-8 (hbk) ISBN: 978-1-315-22906-5 (ebk)