Orkan Telhan
Orkan Telhan is a interdisciplinary designer and researcher at MIT where he is working towards his PhD in Design and Computation. Telhan is part of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab (and MIT Design Lab), where his research focuses on interactive urban interfaces and experimental media designed for public settings.
Telhan was part of the Sociable Media Group at the MIT Media Lab and prior to that, he studied Media Arts at the State University of New York at Buffalo with a focus on interactive computer graphics and media robotics. Telhan holds SM degree in Media arts and Sciences from MIT, MFA degree in Media Arts Production from SUNY at Buffalo, MFA and BFA degrees in Media Theory and Visual Design from Bilkent University, Ankara.
Telhan's individual and collaborative work has been exhibited in a number of venues including Laboral, Architectural Association, Ars Electronica, ISEA, and Archilab.
Exhibitions / Publications / Teaching
Sample work (PDF)
Contact
otelhan***at***mit*edu
Selected Work
| Urban Interfaces | Interactive Architecture | Robotic Furniture | Social Games |
| The Cloud (08) Echologue (07) Self-organizing Bus Stop (06) |
hiDrone (08) |
Lulu (08-) |
Stiff People's League (07) Defixed (06) |
| Interactive Social Systems | Urban Interventions | Interactive Visualizations | |
| Ride.link (08) |
Vendmaster (07) Price Per Breath (08) |
Pasts and Presents (06) Social Maps of Time and Space (06) Personality of Time (06) Ghostwalk (03) |