DRS2012 Bangkok Proceedings Vol 4 - Design Research Society

Bio
Integration of Generative Research and
Sustainability into the Product Design and Development Process
Senem Turhan has been working as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Industrial Design at
the Middle East Technical University since 2007. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. degree at the same
university which focuses on generative research for the idea generation phase of the product design and
development process. Her master thesis focused on the state of sustainable design education in the
undergraduate industrial design programs in Turkey, particularly in the Department of Industrial Design at METU
through exploring the emerging relationship between industrial design education and sustainability with regard
to examples from all around the world.
Cagla Dogan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical
University. She holds a PhD from the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada, and a
BID and MSc in Industrial Design from the Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. Her designbased
research is on product design for sustainability with a particular emphasis on integrated scales of design
and product. She has presented her design research conclusions and insights at several peer-reviewed
international conferences (EAD, ICSID, IDSA, Sustainable Innovation), and her publications include co-authored
papers in the Journal of Sustainable Product Design and the International Journal of Product Design.
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