Burak Taşdizen is a Research Fellow in “Human, Medicine, and Society” research field at Orient-Institut Istanbul, and works within the project “A Cartography of Hair:y_less Masculinities” as part of IRSSC.
Taşdizen completed his undergraduate and graduate education at Middle East Technical University Department of Industrial Design. He wrote an ethnography of knitting practice over a women’s knitting community, focusing on the micro-economies surrounding the knitting pattern and skill during which he received Course Performance Award from METU Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. He worked as a Research Assistant at Özyeğin University Department of Industrial Design between 2016—2019 and taught undergraduate design studio.
Taşdizen’s research focuses on feminist new materialisms, non/human entanglements and situated knowledge makings around design and medicine, and is ethnographically grounded. He is currently a PhD candidate in Design, Technology and Society program at Özyeğin University, and scrutinizes the entanglements of design and care as part of his dissertation project. Taşdizen’s research and research-related activities have been supported by Center for Spatial Justice, Expeditions—Research in Applied Anthropology, EASST— 4S Society for Social Studies of Science, and Garp Sessions.
Taşdizen completed his undergraduate and graduate education at Middle East Technical University Department of Industrial Design. He wrote an ethnography of knitting practice over a women’s knitting community, focusing on the micro-economies surrounding the knitting pattern and skill during which he received Course Performance Award from METU Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences. He worked as a Research Assistant at Özyeğin University Department of Industrial Design between 2016—2019 and taught undergraduate design studio.
Taşdizen’s research focuses on feminist new materialisms, non/human entanglements and situated knowledge makings around design and medicine, and is ethnographically grounded. He is currently a PhD candidate in Design, Technology and Society program at Özyeğin University, and scrutinizes the entanglements of design and care as part of his dissertation project. Taşdizen’s research and research-related activities have been supported by Center for Spatial Justice, Expeditions—Research in Applied Anthropology, EASST— 4S Society for Social Studies of Science, and Garp Sessions.
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Burak Taşdizen
Orient-Institut Istanbul
Susam Sokak 16, D. 8
TR—34433 Cihangir – Istanbul
phone +90—212—2936067 ext. 128
e-mail tasdizen@oiist.org
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