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Istanbul-born Merve Bektaş, is a designer, artist, and working as a researcher at the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, on the intersection of practice-based research and eco-social transformation.

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Employment (4)

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2023-11-23 to present | Researcher (Competence Center for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems)
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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2023-01-01 to 2023-10-31 | External Design Research Collaborator (Faculty of Design and Art)
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Lungomare Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2022-10 to 2023-03 | Eco-Social Designer
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Ypsilon Tasarim: Istanbul, TR

2018 to 2020 | Industrial Product Designer (Industrial Product Design)
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Education and qualifications (3)

Free University of Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2019-10 to 2022-03 | MA in Eco-Social Design (Faculty of Design and Art)
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Marmara University: Istanbul, TR

2012 to 2016 | BA in Industrial Product Design (Fine Arts Academy)
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Rome University of Fine Arts: Rome, IT

2014 to 2015 | Erasmus+ BA in Design
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Professional activities (5)

Competence Center for Mountain Innovation Ecosystems: Bolzano, IT

2023-11-01 to present
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Free University of Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2023-10-06 to present | Artist, Designer, Researcher of Glocal Worm-ing: Earthworms as active agents to transform the web of place-based human-soil relations and ecologies (Long Night of Research - Science Live )
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Lungomare Bozen-Bolzano: Bolzano, IT

2022 to present
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Naturmuseum Südtirol l Museo Scienze Naturali dell'Alto Adige: Bolzano, IT: Bolzano, IT

2023-10-01 to 2023-10-01 | Training for the museum professionals in topics related to multispecies engagements in museum settings through design and art
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Naturmuseum Südtirol l Museo Scienze Naturali dell'Alto Adige: Bolzano, IT

2022-09 to 2023-09 | Artist, designer, curator of the exhibition Glocal Worm-ing: Earthworms as active agents to transform the web of place-based human-soil relations and ecologies
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Works (1)

FERAL WOOL. Designing with a vibrant matter with care and cosmoecological perspective in times of troubled abundance

INMATERIAL. Diseño, Arte y Sociedad
2024-06-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Seçil Uğur Yavuz; Merve Bektas; Camilo Ayala Garcia
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