Disharee Mathur is an artist and designer based between Jaipur (India) and London (UK). Her work lies at the intersection of traditional craft, material research, and design, described as a conversation between artisans, scientists, and designers. Together they reimagine indigenous craft practices of the past to help mitigate the industrial waste of the present. Her transcultural design education guides her to create work that is good for ecologies and economies alike.

Disharee is a graduate of the MA/MSc Innovation Design Engineering program at the Royal College of Art and Imperial College, London (2021). She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Interior Design at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD, 2017) and has worked at internationally renowned Interior Architecture firms in USA and India.

At Project Newblue, Disharee’s process is currently exploring new recipes from sanitary ware waste to help revive and diversify the local craft of Jaipur Blue Pottery, beyond pottery, for cultural and economic sustainability in Jaipur, India. New is the ceramic material that is made & strengthened using ceramic waste, to revive the blue- which stands for the century-old, sustainable craft of Jaipur Blue Pottery.

India has the largest craft concentration in the world, yet only 2% of the global handicraft market share. These numbers affect remote craft communities across the subcontinent. The Jaipur Blue Pottery craft was studied to understand the scenario from the ground up. Indigenous craft techniques in India are born out of maintaining harmony between nature and local material abundance with generations of research in learning how to use and craft them well. Newblue redirects these craft techniques to work with today’s material abundance - solid waste, bringing back circularity and harmony in material movement between man and nature, while simultaneously allowing product innovation within the traditional process.