Research
Data as a design material.
My research asks how data — sound and memory-related data above all — can become a design material. It sits where data physicalization, generative design and digital fabrication meet, and it feeds directly into my artistic practice.
Doctoral research
Sound Data as Design Material
PhD, Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University.
The thesis develops a transformation method that turns memory-related sound data into three-dimensional form, producing personally meaningful objects through data physicalization. It builds on earlier work at METU on 3D printing for end-use products, including a specialized printing method on mirrors.
Where the ephemeral becomes enduring, and the intangible, tangible.
From the artist statement
How a memory becomes a form
01
Capture
A voice, a song, a heartbeat, a sound from a moment that matters. The recording is the raw material; nothing is added to it.
02
Analyze
Computational design decomposes the recording into data and translates it into visual pattern — as particular as the sound it came from.
03
Generate
Generative design methods take that pattern into three dimensions. No two sounds produce the same form.
04
Materialize
The form is fabricated, usually through 3D printing — the point at which something intangible becomes something that can be held.
Selected work
Call for Life
Audio recorded during a rescue operation in Hatay Samandağ after the 6 February Kahramanmaraş earthquake, materialized as sculptural form. Shortlisted for the Lumen Prize 2025 in the Impact category, and one of ten finalists among 172 submissions to the IGA ART Istanbul Airport competition.
Talks
Sculpting Memories
Cer Modern Arts Center, Ankara, 2023
Breaking the Wall of Reminiscing in the Digital Age
Falling Walls Lab, Berlin, 2017 — presenting among 100 innovators selected worldwide