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Orkan Telhan

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

2024

Telhan, Orkan. Bioreactors as Additive Manufacturing Environments. 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing (2024). Journal Article (peer-reviewed).

Telhan, Orkan. "Interrogative Design with More-than-Humans." in Ian Wojtowicz (ed), Interrogative Design. MIT Press, 2024. Book Chapter

Volpe, J. P., Higgs, E. S., Jeschke, J. M., Barnhill, K., Brunk, C., Dudney, J., Govers, L. L., Hobbs, R. J., Keenleyside, K., Murphy, S. D., Seddon, P. J., Sudweeks, J., Telhan, O., & Voicescu, S. (2024). Bionovelty and ecological restoration. Restoration Ecology. Review Article (peer-reviewed)

2023

Fogué Uriel, Orkan Telhan, Eva Gil Lopesino, Carlos Palacios Rodríguez. Revisiting empathy by gentrifying our guts: Exploring design as a cosmopolitical diplomacy practice through microbial fruits of Istanbul in Tironi, Martín, et al., eds. Design for more-than-human futures: Towards Post-Anthropocentric Worlding. Taylor & Francis, 2023. Book Chapter

2022

Telhan, Orkan (ed). Museum of Exhalation. 17th Istanbul Biennial. IKSV, 2022. Book

Telhan, Orkan. Where Do Gardens Come From? in Alastair Fuad-Luke (ed). Post-normal design: Emergent approaches towards plural worlds. Porto Design Biennial. 2022. 117-125. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. What Biodesign Means to Me in Grushkin, Daniel, Veena Vijayakumar, and Carrie Eastman, eds. Grow the future: visions of biodesign. Biodesign Challenge, 2022. Book Chapter

2021

Telhan, Orkan. The Cell in Michelle M. Fisher and Amber Winnick, eds: Designing Motherhood. MIT Press, 2021. Book Chapter

Telhan Orkan and elii. We are the Soil in Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one. Mariana Pestana, Sumitra Upham, Billie Muraben (eds). Onomatopee, 2021. Catalog Essay

2020

Telhan, Orkan and Dietmar Offenhuber. The Inscriptome: Virus as a Visual Instrument. Strelka Magazine. 08.09, The Revenge of the Real. September 2020. Magazine Article

Telhan, Orkan and Yasmin B. Kafai. Advancing Making with Biology: Interview with Orkan Telhan and Yasmin B. Kafai in Nathan Holbert et al, eds: Designing Constructionist Futures: The Art, Theory, and Practice of Learning Designs. Cambridge. MIT Press, 2020. Book Chapter

2019

Telhan, Orkan. Bodies, Bread, and their Architecture in Mitchel Joachim and Maria Ailova: Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities. Actar, 2019. 403-407. Book Chapter

Telhan Orkan, Breakfast Before Extinction in Designs for Different Futures, edited by Kathryn B. Hiesinger, et al. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press in association with the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, and Art Institute of Chicago, 2019): 238–43. Catalog Essay

2017

Kafai, Y. B., Telhan, O., Hogan, H., Lui, D. A., Anderson, E., Walker, J. T., & Hanna, S. (2017). Growing Designs with biomakerlab in High School Classrooms. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC '17) (pp. 503-508). ACM, New York, NY, USA. Conference Paper (peer-reviewed)

Telhan, Orkan. From Growing Tools to Designing Organisms: Changing the Literacies of Design in Filimowicz M, Tzankova V, eds. TRANSDISCIPLINARY. In: Teaching Computational Creativity. Cambridge University Press; 2017:257-292. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. Making Vanilla Queer Again. Tamawuj.org - Sharjah Biennial 13. 2017. Magazine article

2016

Telhan, Orkan. Designature: The Nature of Signatures in Art and Design. Berlin: Revolver Publishing, 2016. Book

Telhan, Orkan and Mahir M. Yavuz. United Colors of Dissent. In Pop Susa, Tanya Toft, Nerea Calvillo, and Mark Wright, eds: What Urban Media Art Can Do: Why When Where and How? Avedition, 2016. 116-119. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. Design.bio: Biology at the Design Studio, BioCoder Issue #11 (September 2016), O’Reilly Media, 55-66. Magazine Article

Telhan Orkan, The Microbial Design Studio: 30-day Simit Diet, 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial Reader, IKSV, Istanbul, 2016. Catalog Essay

2015

Telhan, Orkan, Kafai Yasmin, Breanne K. Litts. Designing for Connected Making: Supports for Collaboration and Community Building in Crafting Activities in K. Peppler, E. Halverson & Y. Kafai (eds.): Makeology. New York, NY: Routledge, 2015. 223-236. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. The Taste of the New Wild, LA+, Issue 1, 2015. Journal Article

Richard, Gabriela T., Yasmin B. Kafai, Barrie Adleberg, and Orkan Telhan. 2015. “StitchFest: Diversifying a College Hackathon to Broaden Participation and Perceptions in Computing.” In Proceedings of the 46th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, 114–19. SIGCSE ’15. New York, NY, USA: ACM. Conference Paper (peer-reviewed)

2014

Offenhuber, Dietmar and Telhan Orkan. Indexical Visualization – Dataless Information Display in Ulrik Ekman et al. (Eds): Ubiquitous Computing, Complexity and Culture, Routledge, London, 2015. 288-301. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. 'For Designing Within: A Spatial Theory for Encapsulating Designed Biologies' in Paradigms of Computing: Making, Machines, and Models For Design Agency in Architecture, eds. Dr. David Jason Gerber, Mariana Ibañez. eVolo, 2014. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan, Yasmin Kafai, Richard Davis, K-Fai Steele and Barrie Adleberg. Connected Messages: A Maker Approach to Interactive Community Murals with Youth to be published in the proceedings of  Interaction Design & Children (IDC'14), Aarhus, Denmark, 2014. Conference Paper (peer-reviewed)

2013

Telhan, Orkan and Yavuz Mahir. Väljasöömise esteetika (trans: Aesthetics of Eviction), SIRP Eesti Kultuurileht, Tallinn, 2013. Newspaper Article

Yavuz, Mahir and Telhan Orkan, The Road of Cones – The Eviction of Social Memory, 13th Istanbul Biennial Guide, IKSV, Istanbul, 2013. Catalog Essay

Telhan, Orkan, Emancipati, 1st Istanbul Design Biennial Reader, IKSV, Istanbul, 2013. Catalog Essay

Telhan, Orkan. Living Commons: A Spatial Theory for Biological Design, PhD dissertation submitted to the M.I.T. Department of Architecture, Cambridge, MA, 2013. Dissertation

2012

Telhan, Orkan, Discursive Methods in Synthetic Biological Design in the proceedings of Design Research Society Conference (DRS 2012), Bangkok, Thailand, 2012. Conference Paper

2011

Telhan, Orkan. "Materials with computational experience and style." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 15 (2011): 151-160. Journal Article (peer-reviewed)

2010

Telhan Orkan, Casalegno F., Park J., Kotsopoulos S., and Yu C. Interaction Design with Building Facades, in the 4th Tangible and Embedded Interaction Conference (TEI’10), Cambridge, MA, 2010. Conference Paper (peer-reviewed)

Telhan, Orkan. Sensor Narratives, Writing Cities, vol. 1, eds. Hall, Suzanne, Fernández Arrigoitía, Melissa and Dinardi, Cecilia. London: The London School of Economics and Political Science. 106-115, 2010. Book Chapter

Telhan, Orkan. 'Vendmaster as a performative object' in Peformative Urban Design, ed. Kiib, Hans. Aalborg: Aalborg University Press. 2010. 180-189. Book Chapter

2009

Telhan, Orkan. Towards the Designer’s Agency: Software Mannerisms for Computational Design in the proceedings of the Second International Conference on Critical Digital: Who Cares (?), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 17-19, 2009. Conference Paper

2008

Telhan, Orkan. Towards a Material Agency: New Materials and New Behaviors for Urban Artifacts. In the proceedings of the First International Conference on Critical Digital: What Matter(s), Harvard University Graduate School of Design, April 18-19, 2008. Conference Paper

Telhan, Orkan. Vendmaster:  A Language Game between Machines and People, MFA thesis submitted to the Department of Media Study, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, 2008. Thesis

2007

Telhan, Orkan. Social Sensing and Its Display, SM thesis submitted to the program in Media Arts and Sciences, M.I.T., Cambridge, MA, 2007. Thesis

2006

Telhan, Orkan. An Initiation Rite for Intelligent Machinery in Computational Aesthetics: Artificial Intelligence Approaches to Beauty and Happiness: Papers from the 2006 AAAI Workshop, ed. Hugo Liu and Rada Mihalcea, 91-94. Technical Report WS-06-04. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Menlo Park, California, CA. Workshop Paper (peer-reviewed)

Telhan, Orkan, Judith Donath. Social Maps of Time and Space, InfoVis 2006 Art Show ConferenceCompendium, 178-179. Conference Artwork

2005

Shapiro, Stuart C., Josephine Anstey, David E. Pape, Trupti Devdas Nayak, Michael Kandefer, & Orkan Telhan, MGLAIR Agents in Virtual and other Graphical Environments, Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), AAAI Press, Menlo Park, CA, 2005, 1704-1705. Conference Paper 

2004

Josephine Anstey, Dave Pape, Stuart C. Shapiro, Orkan Telhan and Trupti Devdas Nayak, “Psycho-Drama in VR,” Proceedings of The Fourth Conference on Computation Semiotics (COSIGN 2004), University of Split, Croatia, 2004, 5-13. Conference Paper (peer-reviewed)

2002

Telhan, Orkan. Virtual Realities and Real Virtualities, MFA thesis submitted to the Department of Graphic Design and the Institute of Fine Arts of Bilkent University, Ankara, 2002. Thesis