A common thread that weaves together her research and creative scholarship is a focus on the construction and deconstruction of cultures and subcultures within visual and material design. She draws inspiration from a bricolage of subcultural identities for her conceptual designs, utilizing traditional and innovative technologies and methodologies, such as 3D printing and illumination. Winge’s ethnographic research into the subculture of modern primitive body modification was published in her book Body Style (Subcultural Style), (Berg/Bloomsbury, 2012). This October, Winge is showing her fashion design, Chute—made from a vintage British pink parachute that is 29 feet in diameter—at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.