New Team Member

We are happy to announce that Dr. Aysun Aytac has joined the team as Research Associate. She is a design educator and researcher with a background of product design.

Prior to joining the Competence Centre for Design & Management, she was employed at the Department of Industrial Design, Izmir Institute of Technology in Turkey as a full-time lecturer and researcher. She taught core and elective courses at graduate level, such as Research Methods, Seminar, Advanced Product Development, Design Studio and Design Evolution. Her research interests centres around material culture, visual culture, visual ethnography, everyday life, culture and design, everyday life creativity, objects as cultural products, design thinking and design education.

Aysun completed her doctoral education at Istanbul Technical University, Turkey on the appropriation of the domestic bathroom, providing an insight into the use, organisation and experience of the domestic bathroom in the context of Turkey. Within her study, she points out that these interactions are important for design discipline because placing the user and his/her experiences in the centre of design research enables a better understanding of people, their values, lifestyles thus of society, which in the end could provide better product and service development processes.