Troy Nachtigall

Troy Nachtigall is a designer, former Marie Skłodowska-Curie Research Fellow, and Professor of Fashion Research & Technology, collaborating with AMFI at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and serving as an Assistant Professor at TU/e. Using research through design, Troy advances Fashion and Design through living labs, assisting quintuple helix partners in addressing future challenges, as exemplified in projects like NewTexEco. His work focuses on digitalization to explore data-material relationships, post-industrial personalization, and product-service ecosystem ecologies, all of which support circularity.

As a Designer and Design Researcher, Troy investigates data-material relationships at the bodily scale. In his roles as Research Professor at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences and Assistant Professor at TU/e, he leads projects in HCI, personalized computational fabrication, and product-service ecosystems, with support from EU and NL research funding. His work cultivates a more-than-human-centered material perspective, proposing alternatives in post-industrial manufacturing and data-enabled lifelong fabrication.

Troy’s career bridges industry and academia. He served as a Designer for Wanaco Group, working with brands like Hugo Boss, Calvin Klein, and Jean Paul Gaultier Jeans, and has collaborated on projects with Apple, Microsoft, Fendi, and Beyoncé. His research approach was further refined through teaching positions at IUAV, Sapienza, ISIA, and IED, along with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship in ArcInTexETN and postdoctoral research in co-design and shape-change at Aarhus University.