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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
P-R-O-T-O

PROTO is a research group formed by four people working in different disciplines. Its members are Julian Gatto (PhD Canddiate, UC Davis, artist), Daphne Mohajer Va Pesaran (PhD, fashion designer), Cameron Allan McKean (Anthropologist, writer and photographer) and Mercedes Villalba (Anthropologist and writer). PROTO’s purpose is to gather knowledge about human relationships to raw materials using tools that come from different disciplines: critical theory, artistic performance, craft, investigative journalism and fictional narrative.

PROTO’s first project is around the subject of water and human interaction and its research takes place in Beppu city at Oita prefecture, Japan, the second major hot-spring emergence point in the world.