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Jasmine Dhika

The Royal College of Art

Jasmine is an Indonesian-born, London-based textile designer and material researcher whose practice explores the relationship between craft, ecology, and agricultural systems. She completed her MA in Textiles at the Royal College of Art, where she developed woven materials using banana fibre as part of a research project investigating plant-based textiles for interior applications. Her work draws on situated knowledge from Indonesian textile cultures while experimenting with contemporary material practices. Jasmine previously worked in the fashion industry as a sustainability officer, focusing on responsible materials and textile waste systems. Through weaving and material experimentation, she explores how textile design can reconnect craft practices with ecological cycles and agricultural knowledge.

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Inherited Future

Category: Interior

Competitions: Home Competition 2026

In this Inherited Future collection; “Banana as Matter, Tradition as Knowledge” explores the banana plant as both a material and a vessel of cultural knowledge. Using the pseudo-stem, the plant’s main agricultural by-product, the project highlights banana fibre as a regenerative material requiring no extra land, water, or fertilizer. Traditionally used in Indonesia to make textiles, ropes, and papers, the fibre is processed without added chemicals or synthetic bonding. These practices reflect ancestral knowledge of the plant’s potential. Through material experimentation, the project reconnects ecological responsibility with cultural memory, proposing low-impact systems rooted in traditional wisdom for the future.

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