Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran

Dr Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran is an Iranian Canadian academic and designer. She is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. She spent ten years studying and working in Tokyo, where she learned about Japanese fashion and traditional craft practices.  In her 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 is currently undertaking 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 paper. She is co-editor of Radical Fashion Exercises: a workbook of modes and methods, with Dr Laura Gardner and published by Valiz. She co-runs a creative research practice called DNJ Paper which explores the use of paper for clothing and design objects.