Armağan Karahanoğlu
She received her undergraduate, graduate and doctorate degrees from the Department of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University. She worked as a researcher for many years in the BİLTİR-UTEST Product Usability Test Unit in the same institution. During her doctoral studies, she was awarded a Fulbright scholarship and attended the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She worked as a faculty member at TOBB University of Economics & Technology and conducted TÜBİTAK projects there. She works as a faculty member in field of interaction design at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and continues her studies on user experience, especially in personal health technologies.
Berivan Eliş
She has cross-sectoral experience in the fields of social development and social innovation. She is the founding partner of Impact Hub Ankara. In 2016, she established İstasyonTEDÜ -TED University Social Innovation Center- and served as its director for five years. She has worked in the fields of youth, accessibility, gender and human security at the Delegation of the European Union to Turkey, the United Nations Development Programme, Bilkent University and the Community Volunteers Foundation. She works within the Turkish Social Entrepreneurship Network (TSGA) to develop data-based and inclusive policies in the field of social entrepreneurship in Turkey. She holds a bachelor's degree from Ankara University, Faculty of Political Sciences, Department of International Relations, and a master's degree from Bilkent University, Department of International Relations.
Esen Karol
She graduated from Mimar Sinan University Graphic Design Department. She completed her master's degree in Communication Design at New York Pratt Institute with a Fulbright scholarship, with her thesis focusing on the legibility/readability problem. In addition to the success awards in the graphic design exhibitions organized by the Graphic Designers Professional Association, she received the special awards of İhap Hulusi Poster and Bikem Özsunay Graphic Foundation. In 2002, her first solo exhibition “48 × 68” took place in Pratt/Manhattan. In the same year, she gave typography and visual communication lessons as a guest lecturer at Pratt Institute. Between 2003 and 2012, she gave typography and publication design courses at the Department of Visual Communication Design at Istanbul Bilgi University. Her works were published in many reputable international venues. She still works at the design studio Esen Karol Tasarım Ltd, which she founded in 1996, and focuses on the online cultural criticism publication "Manifold", which she launched in 2016.
Hakan Diniz
He received his bachelor degree from Middle East Technical University in the Department of Industrial Design in 2006. He did his graduate studies at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 2010, he founded STUDIO HDD, a design office focused on the concepts of "game, toys and entertainment". He still provides design services to many international and local companies, gives lectures at universities and organizes workshops.
İlayda Yaşa
She is a 4th year undergraduate student in Industrial Design Department at TED University and a secondary field student in the Department of Business Administration. After completing the preparatory year in TEDU, she studied language in England for 3 months. She was qualified to do an internship in the Netherlands with the Erasmus + Traineeship program in the summer of 2022. She took part in TEDU Google Developer Student Clubs community as the Design Team Leader for 2 terms, which received support from both TEDU and Google itself. She continues working with the UX/UI team established by TED University to develop their own mobile application.
Mehtap Öztürk Şengül
After completing her architectural education at Trakya University in 1992, she worked in various companies on furniture design. She works as a faculty member at the Department of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University, where she completed her master's and doctorate studies, and she focuses her studies on the the role of 3D physical and digital modeling in design education. Şengül was a member of the Board of Directors of ETMK in 2015-2016 and 2018-2021, and still contributes to the professional organization studies both in various commissions and boards of ETMK and in the TBMMOB Chamber of Architects - Industrial Designers Commission.
Nazlı Terzioğlu Özkan
She holds a bachelor's and master's degree in the Department of Industrial Design from Middle East Technical University, and a bachelor's degree in Sociology from the same university. She is currently working as a researcher at Brunel University, London. She completed her practice-based doctorate, financed by the Turkish Ministry of Economy, at the Royal College of Art in 2017. She took part in many international and national research projects funded by Erasmus+, Vinnova and UKRI. She works on the PISCES project (WP6) that is focusing on reducing plastic waste in Indonesia and is an expert in circular economy, consumer perspectives, product lifecycle and design for product repair. Previously, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Linköping University in Sweden for three years.
Orhan Irmak
He graduated from METU Industrial Design Department in 2000 ranking first in class. He received his master's degree from Bilkent University and his doctorate degree from İTÜ Industrial Design Department. In 2004, he founded Orhan Irmak Design Company with Gökhan Irmak. Serving many local and global brands in the field of creative packaging design with his team as the design director, Irmak is the owner of more than 50 national and international awards including the one of the most prestigious awards in this field Reddot: best of the best award and many more such as Pentawards, Worldstar, Design Turkey and Packaging Star and Crescent. Orhan Irmak Design is a member of the international association GLBA – Global Local Branding Alliance.
Su Eda Koca
Born in Ankara in 2000, Su Eda graduated from METU G.V.O high school in 2018. She started Industrial Design Department at TED University in 2018 and graduated with high honors in 2022. During her education, she studied at ESADA (Escuela Superior de Arte y Diseño de Andalucía) in Granada, Spain with the Erasmus + program in the fall semester of 2021-2022.
