Design Lecture: Orkan Telhan

Orkan Telhan (Turkey/USA) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer and researcher who investigates critical issues of social, cultural and environmental responsibility. Telhan holds a PhD in Design and Computation from MIT’s Department of Architecture. He was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Laboratory and a researcher at the MIT Design Laboratory. He studied Media Arts at theState University of New York at Buffalo and theories of media and representation, visual studies and Graphic Designat Bilkent University, Ankara. Telhan is currently the director of Foundry Engineering at Ecovative. He is on leave from the Associate Professor of Fine Arts-Emerging Design Practices position at University of Pennsylvania, Stuart Weitzman School of Design.

Civic Square Building, Room 110

This lecture is presented as part of the Spring 2023 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all.