Gizem Çelebi

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• Doctor of Philosophy
• Research Assistant at Istanbul Technical University

The domestication of smart artifacts has transformed our homes into hybrid environments of physical and digital worlds. It also has been changing our mindsets, behaviors, meaning attributions to, expectations from, frustrations about, and interactions with smart artifacts. By extension, the smartness definition is reconstructed by users who are the...

This study explores a design fiction approach in an educational context by applying it to a third-year industrial design studio class. The Food Futures project is conducted with thirty students in the design studio. We approached the future of food using a design fiction approach since the combination of food and design is a highly complex and soci...

Products embody possibilities for performativity in everyday actions. These are eliminated in the design process to create usage scenarios. But users interpret product use in terms of performativity. Product use cases are discussed in performativity terms borrowed from performance art literature: iterability, referentiality, delegated performance,...

Making and producing traditions have been in a state of change with the emergence of digital media that creates knowledge sharing platforms affecting the conventional pathways. With a focus on embroidery activity, this paper seeks the dynamics of domestic craft-making under the influence of digitalization culture and aims to reveal the change of tr...