Rachel Tyler

Lecturer, School of Architecture, Design & Interiors

Rachel is a transdisciplinary artist, researcher, and educator, working across art, architecture, fashion, and geography; collaborating with artists, designers, and makers. Their research draws on a professional design background and focuses on developing innovative methodologies and approaches to feminist, queer, and inclusive knowledge-making. Foregrounding creative practice-led research, Rachel’s research expands understandings of architecture and heritage, harnessing theories of colour, surfaces, and new materialism.They advocate for equitable, transdisciplinary knowledge exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration across the arts, sciences, and humanities, as well as academic and public collaboration and co-curation.

Between 2019-2025 Rachel conducted doctoral research, supported by Technē AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, exploring geographies of garments and making, and how these can be expressed through cartography. The thesis, "Skipped Stitches: Palimpsestuous Mapping of East London Fashion in the 21st Century", employs creative practice-led methodology, with a specific focus on London’s fashion industry and precarity.

Alongside their position as a lecturer at Falmouth University, Rachel works with The DisOrdinary Architecture Project, a not-for-profit platform that starts from the experiences, expertise and creativity of disabled artists. Rachel has held research positions at University College, London (UCL), The Bartlett, Urban Laboratory and Royal Holloway, University of London, alongside guest lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture, and Brighton University.

External Links

• The DisOrdinary Architecture Project

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