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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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)
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
Telhan, Orkan, Discursive Methods in Synthetic Biological Design in the proceedings of Design Research Society Conference (DRS 2012), Bangkok, Thailand, 2012. Conference Paper
Telhan, Orkan. "Materials with computational experience and style." Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 15 (2011): 151-160. Journal Article (peer-reviewed)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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