Department of Industrial Design

CURRICULUM VITAE

Figen Işık

Department of Industrial Design

Faculty of Architecture

Middle East Technical University

06800, Çankaya

Ankara, Turkey

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RESEARCH INTERESTS

design history, material culture studies, sociology of consumption, research through design, ethnography in design research

EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, Department of Sociology, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

“From Teldolap to the Refrigerator: Understanding Modern Lifestyle in Turkey Through the Consumption of Household Technology Products”

M.A. in History of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1995

Master’s Thesis; 1995, A Study on the Changing Turkish Bathing Culture Under the Western Influences, Department of Architecture, METU: Ankara.

B.I.D., Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, 1991

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

Instructor, Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey, March 2000 to present

Visiting Scholar (for winter and spring semesters of 2003), Department of Sociology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, January 2003-July 2003

Research Assistant, Department of Industrial Design, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East technical University, Ankara, Turkey, September 1992-March 2000

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

ID 713 (ID 522 as of 2014-2015 academic year) Material Culture and Consumption in Everyday Life, 2010-2011, continuing from 2012-2013 Fall onwards

ID 501 Advanced Project Development in Industrial Design, 2008-2009 Spring to present, in collaboration with Part-time Inst. Burcu Derer Omay

ID 122 Origins and Attitudes in Industrial Design I, 1999-2000 Spring to present

ID 401 Industrial Design V, in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Asatekin, 2000-2001 Fall

ID 521 Cultural Analysis of Design, in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Necdet Teymur, 1998-1999 Fall

ID 221-222 Origins and Attitudes in Industrial Design II-III, 1995-1996 Fall to present

ID 301 Industrial Design III, in collaboration with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Asatekin, Inst. Çiğdem Erbuğ, 1995-1996 Fall

ID 301-302 Industrial Design II-III, in collaboration with Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Asatekin, Inst. Dr. Hakan Gürsu, 1994-1995

ID 221-222 History of Industrial Design I-II, 1993-1995

ID 111 Visual Communication I, in collaboration with Inst. Ali Günöven, 1993-1994 Fall

Course Development; ID 122, 221, 222 Origins and Attitudes in Industrial Design I, II, III courses for the ındergraduate program in Industrial Design, METU, ID 713 Material Culture and Consumption in Everyday Life, course for the graduate programs in Industrial Design, METU

THESES SUPERVISED

Van der Marel, Floris (2012) Developing An Impact Evaluation Framework for Product Designers Inspired by the Capability Approach: A Case Study on the Philips Chulha,Unpublished Master’s Thesis, METU & TU/Delft Joint Programme in Interaction in Design: Ankara, Delft.

Tönük, Damla, (2011) The Practice of Counting Prayers: Use of Tespih And Zikirmatik in Everyday Life in Turkey, Unpublished Master’s Thesis, METU: Ankara.

Özçetin, Seda, (2008) The Role and Significance of Design Exhibitions in The History of Industrial Design in Turkey: 1989-2008, Unpublished Master’s Thesis, METU: Ankara.

Toker, Gülen (2008) Understanding and Demonstrating the Contribution of Objects to the Construction of the Idea of Future in Science Fiction Films,Unpublished Master’s Thesis, METU: Ankara.

Karademir Arun, Banu (2007) Analysis of the Narrative Constructed Around Products : A Case Study on Tupperware Products,Unpublished Master’s Thesis, METU: Ankara.

ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES

Departmental Coordinator for Erasmus Exchange Student Mobility Program (Undergraduate Program), METU, 2004 to present

ACADEMIC MEETINGS

11-17 June 2007, Seminar on Consumption Theory, CRTS Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

July 2004, Fourth International Conference on Design and Emotion, July 12-14, 2004, Ankara, Turkey

February 2004, AHRB Postgraduate Research Day Meeting, Domestic Designs: 1400 to the Present, February 9, 2004, Royal College of Art, London, UK

July 2001, 2001 Meeting of Women’s Studies Network Association, Gloucester Cheltenham, UK

September 1997, EAA (European Association of Archaeologists) Third Annual Meeting, Ravenna, Italy

October 1994, International Product Design Symposium, Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design, member of the organization committee

PUBLICATIONS & PRESENTATIONS

Isik, Figen, Johanna Kint (2014) Moving Rituals. Re-interpreting Rituals Cross-Culturally, TMC 2014: Edited Volume on Turkish Emigration and Diaspora, Paper 213.

Işık, Figen, Damla Tönük, (2012) Negotiating Identities: The Use of Prayer Beads in Everyday Life in Turkey,Proceedings of 8th International Design and Emotion Conference London 2012 Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, 11-14 September 2012 Edited by J. Brassett, J. McDonnell & M. Malpass.

Işık, Figen, Damla Tönük, (2011) AnInquiry into Social Aspects of Co-evoltion of Objects and Practices: From Prayer Beads to Digital Counters, Proceedings of IASDR 2011 Conference.

Işık Tüneri, Figen (2007)‘From Teldolap to the Refrigerator: Understanding Modern Lifestyle in Turkey Through the Consumption of Household Technology Products’, CRTS, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Işık Tüneri, Figen (2005) ‘Dresser’ın Tasarım Devrimi’ (Christopher Dresser: A Design Revolution) XXI, n. 30, pp.: 48-50.

Işık Tüneri, Figen (2004) ‘Keeping it Full: The Meaning of the Refrigerator for Domestic Consumption and Reproduction in Modern Everyday Life in Turkey’ Unpublished paper in the Fourth International Conference on Design and Emotion, July 12-14, 2004, Ankara, Turkey.

Işık Tüneri, Figen (2004) ‘Cold and Closed: The Refrigerator as the Re/presentation of the Self and the Preservation of Privacy in Modern Everyday Life in Turkey’, Unpublished paper in AHRB Postgraduate Research Day Meeting, Domestic Designs: 1400 to the Present, February 9, 2004, Royal College of Art, London, UK.

Işık Tüneri, Figen (2001) ‘Selling of Mother’s Day: On the Representations of Motherhood Image(s) in Mother’s Day Ads’ Unpublished paper in 2001 Meeting of Women’s Studies Network Association, Gloucester Cheltenham, UK.

Işık, Figen (1998) ‘Reflections on a Set of Representation: Archaic Greek Kouros through the Greek Conception of the World’, in Pearce, M., Tosi, M. (eds.), Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997, V. II: Classical and Medieval, BAR International Series 718, 1998, Archeopress: Oxford.

Işık, Figen (1995) ‘Profesyonel Avant-garde!..’, (Professional Avant-garde!) Arredamento Dekorasyon, n.68, pp.67-70.

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