research interests 

• design cultures, design politics, sustainable design, activist design
• creative production, peer production, open source, digital fabrication
• political ecology, anthropocene, degrowth, postcapitalism, prefiguration
• production of commons, commoning, commonism, communisation

photography by Franco Clivio

about my research 

Design cultures have so far been analysed in separate stages of production, mediation and consumption, or, along the circuit of the ‘commodity-machine' —an unsustainable configuration vulnerable to multiple crises. Emergent postcapitalist design cultures bypassing market mediation require a different framework, based on the production of shared value, as opposed to exchange value. Three commoning strategies are distinguished: a) peer production, in the activity of designing subjects, b) open source, in the circulation of design projects, c) digital fabrication, in the making of designed objects. To what extent these practices prefigure a new and sustainable basis for product design, and redirect the production and distribution of material artefacts towards viable, desirable and equitable configurations?

photography by Ali Deniz Ozkan

about me

Born in Ankara and studied in Strasbourg, I am a designer, researcher and activist. I am currently a PhD Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, researching the sustainability of postcapitalist design cultures that practice commoning. My main interests are the intersections between creative production, radical politics and ecological thinking. I am also involved in culture jamming, intentional communities, and climate justice campaigns.

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