Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Daphne is a Senior Lecturer in fashion and textiles design and research in The School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She spent ten years studying and working in Tokyo, where her interest in sustainable community-based practices and especially traditional forms of papermaking began. In her material-led research and design practice she works with garments/products made from handmade paper and explores what materials and relationships can emerge in communities of human and nonhuman people. Daphne has recently completed research fellowships for the British Museum, the Australian Museum, and the International Specialized Skills Institute to research the use of paper for clothing in Japan and the Pacific Islands, as well as recycling used clothing into rag paper. She has recently published a book with Valiz, titled Radical Fashion Exercises: a workbook of modes and methods, co-edited with Dr Laura Gardner. With Jake Nakashima-Edwards, she runs DNJ Paper, an award-winning research and design studio focusing on circularity and the use of paper in all forms of design for everyday life.