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Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran (PhD)︎


Interspecies Collaboration

Interspecies Collaborative Design

Making and Growing with non-human people (films)

PhD Thesis (why can’t plants be community members?)


Making clothes out of paper


DNJ PAPER

A garment in a magazine, is a magazine
Finalist: Victorian Premier Design Awards

Beta Atelier

International Museum Day Lecture with ATOPOS, Athens

Paper textile workshops

Paper, People, Placelessness

Growing paper clothes in rural Japan

Endangered Material Knowledge Program @ The British Museum

Paper coats @ FUTURE PROTOTYPING
Exhibition, Melbourne school of Design

Research Fellow with the ISS

Kamiko Bomber @ CFP, New Zealand


Merging bodies, places, materials


Some (1) Images (2) from my Masters project (3) (...it was 2012...)

FRUiTS, STREET, TUNE

Sebastian Masuda

Back and Forth, In and Out:  The boundless bodies of Long and Stent’s Phanta Firma

From Wajiro Kon to FRUiTS magazine: Tokyo street fashion culture's imprint on collective memory (1) (2)

P-R-O-T-O


Teaching


Advanced Fashion Studios @ RMIT University

Hack the black box: Consumer agency in the sharing economy

Stationary/ Stationery Fashion: A Paper Clothes Making Workshop

Conference and public presentations

Publications

Guest editor, Journal of Sustainability, Special Issue "Community and Collaboration in Fashion and Textiles Practice and Education"

RADICAL FASHION EXERCISES (award winner, Best Dutch Book Design 2023)

Against Durability: A wardrobe made of paper



Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

BD Ryerson University, Toronto
MA BFGU (MEXT Scholarship), Tokyo
PhD Bunka Gakuen Daigaku (JSPS Scholarship), Tokyo


My last name means “Immigrant and Sons” in Persian.
No, I’m not joking—my family took it when they moved from Afghanistan to Iran. With some sons, I guess. 

I am the Program Manager of the Bachelor of Textiles (Design) and (Honours), and a lecturer in fashion and textile design and research in The School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

I like collaborating, and am interested in what materials and relationships can emerge in communities of human and nonhuman people. I’ve done projects for the British Museum, Australian Museum, Valz, iD, Dazed, FRUiTS, and others. I’ll be headed to Europe in 2024 to undertake a research fellowship on rag papermaking. 

In my research and design practice I work with handmade Japanese paper and garments/products made from paper. I workwith designer Jake Nakashima-Edwards  on an ongoing rresearch and design project called DNJ Paper. 

Feel free to get in touch
daphne.mohajer.va.pesaran@rmit.edu.au