Hi, my name is Beata Wilczek 👋


I work in fashion and tech as a researcher, educator and strategist.
I specilize in building projects for digital, diverse and sustainable fashion futures.



I AM
↳ a Founder and Director at Unfolding Strategies
↳ a Host at the Fashion Knowledge Podcast
↳ a PhD candidate at the ADBK Wien

PREVIOUSLY
↳ a Head of Impact at The Dematerialised
↳ Lecturer at AMD and ESMOD Berlin




EVENTS & TALKS

28/04/23                 Google x Fashion Revolution     Digital Sustainability in Fashion

14/04/23                 Parsons Paris x LCF                      Digital Fashion Symposium

29/03/23                 DigiFashion Forum Taiwan        Keynote: Bridging Worlds ↱
24/03/23                 Fotografiska Museum                 Cultural Fabric

14/03/23                 Responsible Fashion Series      Digital Fashion and Cultural Heritage ↱
10/02/23                 PARSONS Paris                               Body in Web3: Intersectional Avatars

09/02/23                 Farfetch Twitter Space               Latest Trends in Digital Fashion ↱

18/01/23                 Berlin Fashion Summit                Fashion and Culture in Web3

02/12/22                 Immersive Tech Week                 Virtual Fashion & Virtual Bodies ↱

09/11/22                 WEIFT Podcast                               Future Proofing Fashion ↱

26/10/22                 The Berlin Fashion Hub               VORN Academy Innovation Lab ↱

20/10/22                 LJM University                               Metaverse Ethics Symposium

11/10/22                 Vogue & BCG                                    Business Fashion Environment Summit ↱

07/09/22                 Berlin Fashion Summit                Phygital Fashion

07/09/22                 DRHA Conference 2022              Digital Sustainability

07/07/22                 Fashion Tech                                    Fashion Industry enters the Metaverse ↱
22/06/22                 Warsaw Stock Exchange            Designing in a Digital World ↱
17/06/22                 Aarhus University                          Digital Fashion in the Metaverse ↱
31/05/22                 Central Saint Martins                   Blockchain in Art and Fashion ↱
21/04/22                 Fashion Revolution Week           New Fashion Systems ↱
11/10/22                 University of Antwerp                  Responsible Fashion Series

01/10/21                 Fashion Multilogue                       Teaching Fashion Together




BIO
Beata Wilczek works across fashion and tech as a researcher, educator and strategist. She is an advocate for sustainability, digital transformation and systemic change in fashion and creative industries. In 2021 she founded a fashion consultancy and education labd Unfolding Strategies and in 2021-2022 served as a Head of Impact at the NFT marketplace The Dematerialised. Wilczek has academic background in Social Psychology (MA), Fashion Studies (PhD, to be completed in 2023), Digital Cultures and Curating (MA).
She has been teaching for over 10 years at various universities worldwide and in past held Guest Prof. at the University of Virginia (Digital Design), co-wrote an MA program in Social Design and Sustainable Innovation (Berlin/Beirut) and gave talks on fashion in London, Warsaw, Tokyo, Mexico City and Beirut. In years 2007-2017 she worked extensively as a fashion art director, VR film concept developer and contemporary art curator on projects for such clients as Uniqlo, Diesel, Moncler, Novembre, Marco Brambilla Studio, Space Doctors, Contemporary Museum Wroclaw, Design Gallery BWA.




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You can also reach me at beata@unfoldingstrategies.com and follow on Linkedin, Twitter or Instagram.