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Publications

The research behind my design practice: peer-reviewed work on smart technologies, design methods, and how people make meaning with products.

2024

Conception of Smartness: A Design Research on User Experience of Smart Artifacts​

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, United States.

Gizem Çelebi, F Pınar Özemir

A study on how people interpret "smartness" in connected artifacts, focusing on the emotional and cognitive qualities that shape trust, usability, and how smart something seems.

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2024

Design (ing) fiction in the studio​​​​​

International Journal of Technology and Design Education, the Netherlands.

Abdullah Tarik Celik, Ali Cankat Alan, Gizem Çelebi, Cigdem Kaya

A study on applying design fiction in studio education to help students tackle complex future-oriented design challenges through speculation and systems thinking.

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2022

A Framework Towards Understanding the Performativity of Products

diid disegno industriale industrial design, Italy.

Gizem Çelebi, Cigdem Kaya

A conceptual framework that rethinks products through performativity, showing how design can better account for action, interpretation, and interaction in everyday use.

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2020

Re-defining Domestic Craft-Making: Cultivation of New Craft Practices and Identity Through the Social Media

Pivot 2020: Designing a World of Many Centers – DRS Pluriversal Design SIG Conference, United States.

Pelin Efilti, Gizem Çelebi

A paper on how social media transforms traditional craft practices, expanding creativity, community, and maker identity through digital culture.

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