Hi, I'm
Hazal
Eindhoven University of Technology
Figure 1. Photo by Oskar Malage (2025)
Featured Expertise Areas
My PDP(s)
Loose Ends (Goveia da Rocha et al., 2022) of the Past
About Me
Figures 2, 3 and 4. Photos by Oskar Malage (2025)
Professional Identity
I am an industrial designer who (co-)creates products, experiences and interventions informed by multidisciplinary discovery, participatory methods and pluriversal approaches. I am particularly interested in questioning emerging technologies and standards presented as universal, and exploring more situated and caring alternatives. Growing up on an island divided by war, colonialism and ongoing conflict taught me to be cautious of generalized solutions to complex societal challenges. Instead, I value locally situated approaches that acknowledge the knowledge, histories and aspirations already present within communities, aligning with Escobar’s (2018) concept of autonomous design within pluriversal design.
Vision
My vision is to use industrial design to create tangible products, experiences and conditions through which communities can collectively imagine alternative futures. I believe aesthetics, materiality and interaction can make these futures temporarily experiential, allowing people to reflect on assumptions that are otherwise difficult to question. Rather than defining preferable futures for others, I want to design participatory and speculative interventions where different communities can critically imagine, experience and negotiate futures grounded in their own knowledge, dignity and ways of living.
Future Goals
References
Goveia da Rocha, B., Andersen, K., & Tomico, O. (2022). Portfolio of Loose Ends. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS ’22, 527–540. https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533516
Y-PLAN. (n.d.). y-plan: Youth for Participatory and Localized Action in Neighborhoods. Y-Plan. Retrieved https://www.y-plan.eu/en/
I acknowledge the use of generative artificial intelligence in the preparation of this portfolio. I utilized Claude Sonnet 4.6 to help make my writing more concise. The prompts used included inputting my own original text and asking it to shorten text or sentence structures. Prompt example: “This is the [insert section name] section I wrote. It needs to be around [x] words shorter. Help me make it more concise by removing redundant content, structures or reordering sentences. Do not fabricate, and do not change the linguistic style, tone or range of vocabulary used in the text.” The output from these prompts was used critically, to aid in the process of editing the written sections of this portfolio. I took two measures to minimize data collection, in line with my own principles: I did not upload any sensitive data as a prompt, and I used Claude on Incognito Mode, which allegedly does not store the data or use it for learning. Vizcom AI was also used as part the creative process of the FBP, as detailed in the ‘Present’ section. The prompt workspace is documented and provided as an attached link.