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Dissemination | Materiality

Cyanobacteria to restore soil: graphic object experimentation

Article | design social

Le design social est-ce, un champignon? Le concept d’agencement polyphonique d’Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing pour penser la transition écologique par le design

Dissemination | Research through design

The Aesthetics of ecological engagement: graphic objects #01 & #02

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Yaprak Hamarat
Designer researcher, Ph.D.

CV FR / EN

Yaprak is a designer researcher who uses ethnographic approaches in several areas such as ecology, transportation, citizenship, and urbanity for social innovation projects led by public and private institutions. She develops and conducts creative project processes using data- and context-driven design tools. She practices human and nonhuman centred design to create or improve services, artifacts, and policies.

Her scientific researches focus on uses and its traces, bodies movements, and artificial materiality based on fieldworks. She studies the anthropological link between aesthetics and politics and develops a pragmatic aesthetics-driven design approach to improve ecological and civic engagement. She uses those outcomes in her social and service design practice that bring originality and innovation to her work.

After her studies in plastic arts, product, and transport design, she worked in France and Canada in the art and design industry. She co-led with two other artists designers the creative community Tostaky, organised several underground exhibitions and creative actions in Montreal (2010-2014). She held lecturer position at Université de Montréal (2011-2016) and temporary assistant professor position at Université de Nîmes (2016-2017). ▶︎Teaching Portfolio◀︎ She holds a Ph.D. in Environmental Design from Université de Montréal (2019). Recently she contributed to two research through design projects in digital health and library services. For the latter, she led an interdisciplinary team during a design residency. She is currently Belgian Fund for Scientific Research Fellow to improve participative issues in residential architectural process through design.