[ design anthropologist · ankara ]

Furkan
& the spaces
between

Mapping the undefined — liminal zones, docile bodies, reclaimed corners. Design as resistance; research as fieldwork; writing as method.

39°52'N 32°51'E · ODTÜ · 2026
threshold
you are here
Design Anthropology Spatial Praxis Liminal Zones Thick Description Anti-Panoptic Material Culture Field Research Queue-Culture Mapping Design Anthropology Spatial Praxis Liminal Zones Thick Description Anti-Panoptic Material Culture Field Research Queue-Culture Mapping
00 · Who

I study the unnamed — corners no one planned, queues that become commons, thresholds that resist the grid.

  • 01 Space is political. Every corridor is an argument about who belongs.
  • 02 Design without anthropology is furniture rearrangement.
  • 03 The informal path is data. Follow it before you pave it.
  • 04 Public privacy is not an oxymoron — it is a right.
Design Anthropology Spatial Research Zazaca / Dimili Material Culture Critical Theory Geertz Foucault Deleuze Lefebvre Field Research
Currently building Alt Tasarım — Maddi Kültür Arşivi, a Turkish-language design archive mapping material culture at the intersection of heritage and contemporary spatial practice.
01 · Work & Research
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Spatial Research · 2026

Reinterpreting Undefinity

Redesigning undefined social zones in campus — queue-culture mapping, anti-panoptic spatial praxis.

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Archive · 2025–2026

Alt Tasarım Arşivi

Material culture archive. Turkish design heritage documentation.

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Linguistic · 2025

Zazaca (Dimili) Materials

Northern dialect documentation and translation work.

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Theory · 2025

Geertz & Interpretive Anthropology

Thick description as design method. Connecting interpretive frameworks to spatial practice.

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02 · Writing
Essay

The Queue as Social Infrastructure

On liminal waiting spaces as sites of invisible solidarity and docile body formation. A reading of ODTÜ ring-bus culture through Foucault.

2026 · ~2400 words
Essay

Deterritorialization of the Campus

Following Deleuze & Guattari: what happens when students lose their "yurt" — their true home — in the modern university landscape?

2026 · ~1800 words
Field Notes

Behavioral Trace Analysis: The Informal Path

Observing desire paths and reclaimed corners as resistance to planned grids. Notes from six weeks of fieldwork.

2025 · Field Notes
Critical Theory

Public Privacy as Spatial Right

A Lefebvrian argument for the right to occupancy — and against the reduction of campus topography to transit corridors for capital.

2025 · ~3000 words
i. threshold
the door that is not a door
the waiting that is not waiting —
here, between the ring's departure
and my own,

I become
legible
to no one.

this is the freedom
the planners forgot to pave.
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Poetry here lives alongside theory. Each poem is a field note in another register — a way of saying what the essay cannot.

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verse

Unfinished thoughts, visual experiments, methods in progress. Not everything here is resolved — that's the point.

Mapping the Unmapped

Hand-drawn spatial surveys of informal campus zones. Methodology: behavioral trace analysis.

Material Archive

Objects, textures, found materials — documentation of what gets left behind in threshold spaces.

Language Experiments

Zazaca (Dimili) word-mapping. Northern dialect as spatial metaphor. What does a language remember?

Poster / Manifesto Series

Academic argument as visual object. The poster as a form of spatial occupation.

Queue-Culture Photography

Empathetic documentary. Bodies in waiting. What the camera finds that the survey misses.

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