2024
PhD Dissertation



2024
Buluşan Topluluklar ︎︎︎
Workshop


2023
Essay


2020 — 2022
Research + Coordination


2019 — 2022
Exhibition + Journal Article

2022
Presentation


2021 — 2022
Coordination

2021
Coordination


2021
Presentation


2021
Participation

2021
Journal Article






2021
Participation

2021
Journal Article

















2017 — 2019
Workshop Series

2017
Workshop Series

2017
Journal Article

2014 — 2017
M.Sc. Degree






2016 — 2017
Fieldwork

2014 — 2015
Award




2014
Research + Design

2013
Summer School


2010 — 2014
Bachelor Degree


📧  CONTACT

E-mail: buraktasdizen[at]gmail[dot]com
Web: https://buraktasdizen.com



📎  WORK EXPERIENCE

11.2022 — 02.2025 (part-time)
Doctoral Researcher at Koç University

Online Crowdfunding in Arts, Culture, and Media Industries

TÜBİTAK 3005 Project (Project no. 122G078) 


01.2020 — 03.2022 (2 years 2 months, full-time)

Research Fellow and Project Coordinator at Orient-Institut Istanbul, Max Weber Stiftung
IRSSC, Knowledge Unbound (BMBF-funded, Project no. 01UG1903)


08.2019 — 02.2020 (7 months)

Grant Recipient Research Fellow at Mekânda Adalet Derneği [Center for Spatial Justice]
MADAraştırma 2019


04.2016 — 12.2019 (3 years 9 months, full-time)

Research Assistant at Özyeğin University

Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture and Design


🌿  EDUCATION

September 2018 — December 2024

Ph.D., Design, Technology and Society, Özyeğin University

Thesis: Designing Zoöpolis: A Grounded Theory of Design for Interspecies Care
Supervisor: Özlem Özkal

Co-supervisor: Melike Şahinol

September 2014 — September 2017

M.Sc., Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University [METU]

Thesis: Politics of the Knitting Pattern: Ethnography of Knitting Practice and a Women’s Knitting Community
Supervisor: Harun Kaygan

Graduated with High Honor and Course Performance Award

September 2010 — June 2014

B.ID., Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University [METU]
Graduation Project: Tofa
Industry Collaborator: Rapido
Graduated with Honor


March 2013 — July 2013

Exchange Student in Integrated Design, Hochschule für Künste Bremen [HfK]



📚   PUBLICATIONS


THESES and BOOKS


Taşdizen, Burak. (Forthcoming). Designing Zoöpolis: A Grounded Theory of Design for Interspecies Care. Ph.D. Thesis. Özyeğin University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Şahinol, Melike, Burak Taşdizen and Gülşah Başkavak. (2022). Hair:y_less Masculinities. A Cartography. https://doi.org/10.25360/01-2022-00000. 2022. ISBN: 978-625-00-9547-8. Accessible here.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2020). İnsandan Öte Bir İstanbul Düşlemek | Imagining A More-than-human Istanbul. Mekânda Adalet Derneği [Center for Spatial Justice], Istanbul, Turkey. Accessible here.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2017). Politics of the Knitting Pattern: Ethnography of Knitting Practice and a Women’s Knitting Community. M.Sc. Thesis. Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Accessible here.


PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES


Taşdizen, B. (2024). “Interspecies Liminality on the Edge of Life: Human-Animal Companionship in Madame (1989).” REFLEKTIF Journal of Social Sciences, 5(2), 307–329. https://doi.org/10.47613/reflektif.2024.161

Taşdizen, B., Yetiş, E. Ö., and Bakırlıoğlu, Y. (2024). “Intersubjectivity as an analytical concept to study human-animal interaction in historical context: street dogs in Late Ottoman period.” Frontiers in Sociology, 9. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsoc.2024.1389010

Okay, Ayşe Melis, Burak Taşdizen, Charles John McKinnon Bell, Beyza Dilem Topdal and Melike Şahinol. (2022). “Cyborg Encounters: Three Art-Science Interactions”, NanoEthics 16, pp. 223 — 238. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11569-022-00423-0.


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2021). “Medicalised Masculinities in Turkey and Iran: The Eigensinn of Hair in Hair Transplantation”, Somatechnics 11 (1), pp. 48 — 67. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2021.0339.


Erözçelik, Alayça, and Burak Taşdizen. (2017). “Designing on the Spot: Learning from the Social Design Projects in Gökçeada/Imbros Island”, The Design Journal 20, no. sup1, pp. 1751 — 1764. https://doi.org/10.1080/14606925.2017.1352696.


Taşdizen, Burak, and Harun Kaygan. (2016). “Ahlak Dışı Nesneler: Ulus’ ta Kentsel Dönüşümün bir Psikocoğrafyası”, Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi/Journal of Ankara Studies 4 (2), pp. 89 — 103. https://doi.org/10.5505/jas.2016.38257.


CHAPTERS in EDITED BOOKS


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2022). “İnsan Sonrası Erkek(lik): Saç Ekimi Örneği”, in Çokdisiplinli Çalışmalarda Posthümanizm, eds. Sümeyra Buran and Pelin Kümbet. Transnational Press London. Part of Paperback ISBN: 978-1-80135-122-5.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2020). “İnsanın Dışında, Tasarımın Ötesinde: Sokak Kedileri, Geçici Birleştirmeler ve Tasarım Aktivizmi”, in Türkiye’de STS: Bilim ve Teknoloji Çalışmalarına Giriş, pp. 225 — 242, eds. Aydan Turanlı, Arsev Aydınoğlu and Melike Şahinol. Istanbul: İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi. Part of ISBN: 978-975-561-516-5. Accessible here.


OTHER JOURNAL ARTICLES


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “İnsandan Öte Bir İstanbul Düşlemek: Sakat Şehrin Kedi Evleri”, MADjournal 2, pp. 124 — 133. Part of ISSN: 2717-6762. Accessible here.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “#ÖneÇıkarılanProfil’ler, #SağlamTipler ve Diğerleri: Hornet’in Anlık Bir Fotoğrafı”, Beyond Istanbul, Mekânda Adalet ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet, eds. Zeynep Gülru Göker and Cenk Özbay, pp. 81 — 85. Part of ISSN: 2587-2508.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2020). “Knitting unruly kinships through design, a world-making assemblage”, EASST Review 39 (2), pp. 53 — 56. Accessible here.


ESSAYS


Taşdizen, Burak. (2023). “Notes On A Table”, in Garp Sessions: Documentation and Commissioned Works 2019-2022, ed. Ayşe İdil İdil & Deniz Kırkalı. Berlin, Germany: nocturne-platform. Part of ISBN: 978-3-00-076019-8. Accessible here.

Taşdizen, Burak
. (2021). “Feral (Im)mobilities”, in Locomotion, ed. İpek Burçak. Berlin & Vienna: Well Gedacht Publishing.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “Three Material Tales of Babakale”, in Garp Sessions 2020: Fictional Protocols and Desirable Futures, eds. Giulia Civardi, Ekin Can Göksoy, Ezgi Hamzaçebi, Lara Ögel, Cem Örgen and Burak Taşdizen. Accessible here.


Taşdizen, Burak, and Övgü Ülgen. (2015). “Enter and Exit Ankara: The Five New Gates of the Turkish Capital”, Mashallah News. Accessible here.


OTHER


Rieck, Katja, Melike Şahinol and Burak Taşdizen. (2020). “Iterations of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes and Problem Spaces in Turkey, Iran and Germany”, Orient-Institut Istanbul Blog, 31 July 2020. Accessible here.


📑  PRESENTATIONS

Taşdizen, Burak. (2023). “Together at the Same Table: An Exercise on More-Than-Human Design Research”, on 14 December 2023, in Working with Nonhumans in Design | Insights From The Field, organised by Koç University KUAR Design Lab, as part of UNIC project “Developing a Platform for Collaboration and Knowledge Sharing to Support More-Than-Human City Design”, 14 December 2023, hybrid. 

İleri, Eren, and Burak Taşdizen. (2022). “Masculinities and/as Design: Exploring the Space Suit Designs of Commercial Space Travel”, on 25 May 2022, in Masculinities in Design: Objects, Identities and Practices, 24 — 25 May 2022, online.

Taşdizen, Burak. (2022). “Assembling A More-than-human Istanbul: A Methodological Reflection”, on 28 March 2022, in The Urban Ecologies Workshop Series: Workshop One, Methodological Expositions, hosted by the Urban Ecologies Research Group at the University of Cambridge, online.


Şahinol, Melike, Burak Taşdizen and Gülşah Başkavak. (2021). “Cinsiyetlendirilmiş Hijyen: Erkeklerde Saç ve Kıl Bakım Pratikleri”, on 23 November 2021, in STS: Bir Disiplin Olarak Kimlik İnşası organised by STS Turkey, 22 —24 November 2021, online.


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2021). “Entangled Empowerment: Connecting Shared Hair Transplantation Practices for Men in Turkey and Iran”, on 16 September 2021, in Connecting Themes: Contested Knowledge in a Connected World organised by Max Weber Foundation, in Berlin, Germany.


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2021). “Colonizing Men’s Bodies: Natureculture Metaphors Around Hair Transplantation”, on 8 August 2021, in The Re-invention of Traditions in the Middle East, organised by I U A E S International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Commission on the Middle East Annual Conference in cooperation with Orient-Institut Istanbul, online.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “Tasarım-Bakım Dolanıklıkları: Alanyazının Konuştukları”, at Poedat Gelecek Çalışmaları, 28 August 2021.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “Tasarımı İnsan Olmayanlara Açmak: Sahanın Söyledikleri”, at Poedat Gelecek Çalışmaları, 28 August 2021.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2021). “Care as Design: Urban Cats and Affordance Assemblages of Istanbul”, at ITU Industrial Design, Contemporary Issues in Design by Çiğdem Kaya.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2020). “Dis/media Assemblages Surrounding the Care for Street Cats of Istanbul”, on 19 August 2020, in EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds, 18— 21 August 2020, online.


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2020). “Everyday Cyborgs: Men with Implanted / Transplanted Hair and its Eigensinn”, on 18 August 2020, with Melike Şahinol, in EASST + 4S Joint Conference: Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds, 18— 21 August 2020, online.


Şahinol, Melike, and Burak Taşdizen. (2020). “Cartography of Hair:y_less Masculinities: An Introduction”, at Orient-Institut Istanbul Research Colloquium.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2020). “Posthuman Feminist Theory: Body Modification and Empowerment”, on 21 January 2020, in Technology and the Body: Care, Empowerment and the Fluidity of Bodies, hosted by the Orient-Institut Istanbul, in Istanbul, Turkey.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2019). “İnsanın Dışında, Tasarımın Ötesinde: Sokak Hayvanları, Geçici Birleştirmeler ve Tasarım Aktivizmi”, on 28 December 2019, in MAD Araştırma Çalıştayı, organised by Mekânda Adalet Derneği [Center for Spatial Justice], in Istanbul, Turkey, 27-28 December 2019. 


Taşdizen, Burak. (2019). “#SağlamTipler: An Exploration of Idealised Masculinity on Hornet”, on 12 September 2019, in 2nd International Men and Masculinities Symposium, organised by Iniative for Critical Studies of Masculinities coordination, supported by Özyeğin University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute und Research Worldwide Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, 12-14 September 2019.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2019). “#SağlamTipler: Hornet’te idealize edilen erkekliğin bir araştırması”, on 11 May 2019, in Türkiye’de Erkeklik Çalışmaları: Sorunlar ve İmkânlar, organised by Iniative for Critical Studies of Masculinities coordination, supported by Özyeğin University, Raoul Wallenberg Institute und Research Worldwide Istanbul, in Istanbul, Turkey, 10-11 May 2019.


Taşdizen, Burak, and Harun Kaygan. (2016). “Between open-source and commerce: micropolitics of authorship and originality in a knitting community”, on 10 May 2016, in 15th Annual STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies, organised by Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt | Vienna | Graz (STS), the Inter-University Research Centre for Technology, Work and Culture (IFZ) und The Institute for Advanced Studies on Science, Technology and Society (IAS-STS) coordination, Graz, Austria, 9–10 May 2016.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2017). “Politics of the Knitting Pattern: Ethnography of Knitting Practice and a Women’s Knitting Community”, at Istanbul Medipol University Industrial Design.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2016). Welcome speech for “Multidisciplinary Thinking: Empowering Women Through Design”, at SALT Galata, collaboration with KEDV & Livstycket as part of 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial.


Taşdizen, Burak. (2016). “Social Media in a Knitting Community in Ankara, Turkey”, on 9 April 2016, in Social Media in Turkey: Uses and impacts in Social and Political Life, organised by British Institute Ankara, in Ankara, Turkey.


Taşdizen, Burak, and Harun Kaygan. (2015). “Immoral objects: A psychogeography of gentrification in Ulus”, on 15 May 2015, in 4T: Design in Times of Turmoil, organised by 4T Design and Design History Society coordination, at Yaşar University, İzmir, Turkey, 14-15 May 2015.


💌  SCIENTIFIC REFEREEING

Base Diseño e Innovación
REFLEKTİF Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi
UTAK 2022


🗓️  ACADEMIC COORDINATION

Academic Workshop: “Buluşan Topluluklar” (Communities That Meet), as part of “Kentsel Ayrışma ve İşbirliği” (Urban Segregation and Collaboration), 31 January - 1 February 2024, Mekânda Adalet Derneği (Center for Spatial Justice) and University of Amsterdam, POSTANE, Istanbul, Turkey.  

Film Festival: Iran at the Crossways. Documentaries and Dialogues on a Society in Transition, co-organised with IRSSC project team, 21 January 2022, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS de Turquie à Istanbul-Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey.


Panel: Modified (Hu)Man: Gelenekler, Kırılganlıklar ve Olası Gelecekler, co-organised with Melike Şahinol, at the Film Forum Iran at the Crossways. Documentaries and Dialogues on a Society in Transition. 10 January 2022, INSTITUT FRANÇAIS de Turquie à Istanbul-Taksim, Istanbul, Turkey.


Panel: Perform_Factur_ing /Healthy/ Wo_Man: Iran, Turkey and Beyond, co-organised with Melike Şahinol and Gülşah Başkavak, at the internal IRSSC Closing Conference. 12-13 November 2021, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. Online.


Film Festival: Iran at the Crossways. Documentaries and Dialogues on a Society in Transition, co-organised with IRSSC project team, 12-13 November 2021, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Hamburg, Germany. Online.


Academic Workshop: Medicalized Masculinities: Knowledge Exchange from Denmark to Turkey, co-organised with Melike Şahinol, 20 August 2020, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. Online.


Academic Workshop: Iterations of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Themes and Problem Spaces in Turkey, Iran and Germany, assisting Katja Rieck, 25 June 2020, Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. Online.


Academic Workshop: Technology and the Body: Care, Empowerment, and the Fluidity of Bodies, co-organised with Melike Şahinol and Robert Langer, 21 January 2020. Orient-Institut Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey. Online.


Exhibition: Cyborg Encounters, co-organised with Ayşe Melis Okay, Beyza Dilem Topdal, Burak Kaynar, Umut Özöver, Öykü Sorgun, Pelin Günay and Melike Şahinol, 10-12 September 2019, Istanbul Technical University [ITU], Istanbul, Turkey.


Design Workshop: Beyond its Function II, co-organised with Pelin Günay, 4 July 2019, Özyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.


Design Workshop: Beyond its Function I, co-organised with Pelin Günay, 12 July 2017, Özyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.


Design Workshop: Very Skilled People. 14-15 March 2017, Özyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey.


Academic Workshop: World Design Talks: Traffic Congestion, co-organised with Alpay Er and World Design Organisation (former ICSID), 24 June 2016, hosted by Özyegin University at ATÖLYE, Istanbul, Turkey.


Design Workshop: Regeneration of Craft II, co-organised with Alayça Erözçelik, 12-19 June 2016, Gökçeada, Çanakkale, Turkey.


🏓   INTERVIEWS

“Feline Entanglements – Commons, Compassion, and Care”, Interview with Milan Vukašinović of ANAMED. Accessible here.


“The Medicalization of Bodies Is a Gendered Practice”, Interview with Max Weber Stiftung as part of Knowledge Unbound. Accessible here.


🏀  LEARNING

The Urban Ecologies Workshop Series: Workshop One, Methodological Expositions. Hosted by the Urban Ecologies Research Group at the University of Cambridge. 28 March 2022, online.


Designs of the Oppressed. Organised by UTFPR, in partnership with the Design & Oppression Network and Andifes. 2021, online.


Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners. Organised by Andrea Ballatore, Scott Rodgers, and Sara Rodriguez. 2021, online.


Fictional Protocols and Desirable Futures, Garp Sessions 2020 Residency. Organised by Ayşe İdil İdil and Deniz Kırkalı of Garp Sessions and facilitated by Giulia Civardi and Ekin Can Göksoy. August 2020, Babakale, Çanakkale, Turkey.


MAD Araştırma Çalıştayı. Organised by Mekânda Adalet Derneği. 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.


A New Social Cartography: This is not an Atlas!. Organised by Mekânda Adalet Derneği and Kollektiv Orangotango. 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.


Off the Beaten Track. Anthropology Field School. Organised by Expeditions — Research in Applied Anthropology. July — August 2019, Gozo, Malta.


Urban Political Ecology on the Road. Organised by Mekânda Adalet Derneği. 2019, Istanbul, Turkey.


Türkiye’de Erkeklik Çalışmaları: Sorunlar ve İmkânlar. Organised by Eleştirel Erkeklik İncelemeleri İnisiyatifi. 2019, Özyeğin Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey.


Field Notebook as a Research Tool/Apparatus. July 2018, Gümüşlük Akademisi, Bodrum, Turkey.


Graduate Forum. Organised by Harun Kaygan at Middle East Technical University Department of Industrial Design. 2014—2017, Ankara, Turkey.


6-month ethnographic fieldwork in a women’s community of knitting practice. 2015—2016, Ankara, Turkey.


🏆   AWARDS, GRANTS and SCHOLARSHIPS

I am the recipient of Course Performance Award from METU, and of MAD Research Grant of Center for Spatial Justice. My research and research-related activities have been supported by Center for Spatial Justice, Expeditions—Research in Applied Anthropology, EASST4S Society for Social Studies of Science, Garp Sessions, Well Gedacht Publishing, Poedat and TÜBİTAK.


Recipient of TÜBİTAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye) 2250 - Performance-Based Scholarships Program for PhD and Post-Doc Scholars. 2024.

Selected Article for Publication. beyond.istanbul Mekânda Adalet ve Toplumsal Cinsiyet special issue guest edited by Zeynep Gülru Göker and Cenk Özbay. 2021.


Invited Researcher among 3 others by facilitators Giualia Civaldi and Ekin Can Göksoy for 2020 Edition of Garp Sessions titled “Fictional Protocols and Desirable Futures” in Babakale, Çanakkale, Turkey. 2020.


Participation Waiver Recipient for EASST/4S in Prague 2020 Conference jointly organised by European Association for the Study of Science and Technology [EASST] & Society for Social Studies of Science [4S]. 2020.


MAD Araştırma 2019 Grant Recipient. Project title: “İnsanın Dışında, Tasarımın Ötesinde: Sokak Hayvanları, Geçici Birleştirmeler ve Tasarım Aktivizmi”. Mekânda Adalet Derneği. 2019.


Scholarship Recipient for the 2019 edition of Off the Beaten Track organised by Expeditions – Research in Applied Anthropology, Belgium in Gozo, Malta. 2019.


Recipient of Course Performance Award by Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü due to being chosen as the most successful M.Sc. student at METU Industrial Design. 2014-2015 Academic Year.



🎒  TEACHING

I taught design studio at undergraduate level and conducted design workshops for non-professional designers at Özyeğin University Department of Industrial Design between 2016—2019. I choose to stay critical of mainstream design curricula, and follow pluralist understandings of designers beyond the trained designer, use scenarios beyond the anticipated and users beyond the “human”.


SUPERVISED STUDENTS

Academic Advisor for Dikris Koyuncu, 2021 – 2022 Spring at Istanbul Bilgi University Department of Industrial Design.

TAUGHT COURSES

IDE101 Principles of Design I
IDE102 Design as Creative Problem Solving
IDE104 Design Visualization II
IDE201 Design Studio I
IDE202 Design Studio II
IDE001 Summer Practice I
IDE301 Design Studio III
IDE302 Design Studio IV
IDE401 Design Studio V
IDE402 Design Graduation Project

See the course descriptions here.