16th 4T DESIGN AND DESIGN HISTORY SYMPOSIUM
On the Move: Objects/Images/Spaces
6-7 November 2025
SYMPOSIUM PROGRAM
DAY 1 — Thursday, November 6
| 09:00 – 10:00 |
Registrations Open – Coffee and Tea |
| 10:00 – 11:15 |
Opening Remarks & Keynote Speech - Ömer Alkın: Postmigrant Media Culture |
| 11:15 – 11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
VISUAL COMMUNICATIONS
Chair: Gökhan Mura
- Fulya Ertem Başkaya, Murat Bengisu, İpek Cabadak — Visual Correspondence: Studio Photographs as a Tool of Communication in the Early Republic Period
- Ceren Yıldırım Yargıcı, Işıl Çokuğraş — Neighbourhood Nostalgia in Turkey: Spatial Representation in TV Series Yeditepe İstanbul
- Ezgi Çavuş, Ozan Peker — Exploring Interior Atmosphere, Character Psychology and Spatial Dynamics in American Psycho
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
TRAVELING IMAGES
Chair: Tuğcan Güler
- Özge Kurban — Between the Official Imaginary and the Local: Travelling Representations of the Keban Dam, Turkey
- Sinem Ozgur — Visual Information And Its Environment As A Form Of Precedent Knowledge
- Mariana Almeida, Helena Barbosa — Study of a Visual Identity “on the move” through ‘Cooperativa Árvore’s Posters
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| 15:00 – 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:15 – 16:30 |
MATERIAL SURVIVALS
Chair: Gülsüm Baydar
- Nilüfer Talu, Irmak Talu — Experiential Co-Ethnography of Picardie Glass: Timelessness and Originality
- Ioanna Diamanti — Histories in Strata: The Serpent Column through Mediterranean Crossroads
- Deniz Avcı — Retrofits of Care in Ankara’s Atatürk Sanatorium Across Time and Lens
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DAY 2 — Friday, November 7
| 11:30 – 12:30 |
DATUMM
Chair: Burkay Pasin
Profiling Spatial Transformation in Turkish Modern Interiors through Women’s Stories
Presenters: Deniz Hasırcı, Zeynep Tuna Ultav, Melis Örnekoğlu Selçuk, Deniz Avcı
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| 12:30 – 14:00 |
Lunch Break — DATUMM Book Event |
| 14:00 – 15:00 |
EVERYDAY PRACTICES
Chair: Ö. Osman Demirbaş
- Helena Barbosa — Chairs in Transformation: Icons of Portuguese Design Culture
- Elif Ece Ilgaz, Furkan Evliyaoğlu — Disappearance of Everyday Life Objects: A Biography of the Token
- Cansu Curgen, Avşar Gürpınar — Ambiguous Standards Institute: The Agency of Everyday
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| 15:00 – 15:15 |
Coffee Break |
| 15:15 – 16:30 |
SPATIAL IMAGINATIONS
Chair: Kıvanç Kılıç
- Türküler Topal — Staging Transitions: Migrating Spatial Practices in Site-Specific Theatre
- Paola Ardizzola — The Spiral in Motion: Migration, Translation, and Reappropriation in Zvi Hecker's Architectural Practice
- Duman Bibi Samshad — Reinterpreting Migration in Undergraduate Textile Design at Loughborough University - Cultural Memory and Environmental Responsibility in Practice
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| 16:30 – 17:00 |
Closing Remarks & Award Ceremony by Tevfik Balcıoğlu |
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