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GEDS’s Work presented at MIT Integrated Design Management Program

Editor — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 15:51:24 +0000

Gulay Ozkan, founder of GEDS was invited on May 5th 2021, to give a seminar to students at Integrated Design Management Program at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITidm) titled “Strategic Design: A Bold Opportunity for Designers“. The talk was oriented towards widening the perspectives of designer and create awareness that they can create by using […]

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What makes a product smart? Innovating with smart textile

Editor — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 11:53:43 +0000

Nowadays, smart-products are an integral part of our lives. However, how we define smartness in a product can radically change its development direction and user experience. We got a lot of questions about how to define smartness and use smart textile in this context. For this, within the MATUROLUIFE Dialogue Series, we hosted MATUROLIFE Project […]

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Do Creative Agencies Increasingly Join Steering Work in Multi-million Dolar Projects? Could This be a Rising Trend?

Editor — Thu, 04 Mar 2021 13:14:24 +0000

Creativity is mostly associated with freelancing, startups, and fluid environments. Whereas in multi-million dollar projects, businesses, there have to be measurable targets and strict project management rules to follow up the work in detail. In this context, can creative agencies become part of the management of large-scale projects? Our answer is yes. As GEDS, a […]

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The Future of Work: New Working Models for Changing Employee Needs

Editor — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 11:07:43 +0000

Companies like GEDS are the business world’s laboratories in which we develop concepts for working models and our core businesses. We exist on the margins where we do and experience things that eventually become mainstream for corporations. One of those things is the normalization of our unconventional employee needs and working models, such as remote […]

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The Future of Work: GEDS and MIT Solve Join Forces

Editor — Tue, 30 Jun 2020 13:34:53 +0000

In partnership with MIT Solve, GEDS hosted a workshop on health security and pandemics for members of the ING Turkey HR team. MIT Solve is an initiative of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has a mission to solve world challenges. MIT Solve is a marketplace for socially impactful innovation through open-innovation challenges. This year’s challenges […]

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10 Design Sessions To Seek Out at SXSW 2020

Editor — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:30:32 +0000

GEDS founder and SXSW advisor Gulay Ozkan shares her design session recommendations for this year’s festival. As part of SXSW 2020’s Design, Fantastic Future and Place by Design advisory boards, I wanted to share my recommendations for the top design sessions to watch out for at this year’s festival. My criteria for this list was […]

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A Collective Design Work Story from İstanbul to SXSW: BOGADA

Editor — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 13:15:42 +0000

As GEDS, we would like to promote designers in the Business World. For this aim, this year we have supported SXSW Place by Design Awards 2020 as a partner. We had two roles in the program. We have recommended candidates to the SXSW awards team and also our founder Gulay Ozkan was on the advisory […]

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Start-up Boost by GEDS

Editor — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 16:58:51 +0000

Tool design for start-ups. We are now offering consultancy services to help businesses thrive. We design this service as a tool to define your road map, improve the journey, validate ideas, suggest research areas and deliver testing scenarios. Start-up Boost is a fast and reliable service that can help you to solve your questions. If […]

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9th TEGEP Education and Development Summit

Editor — Thu, 30 Jan 2020 13:23:32 +0000

9th TEGEP Education and Development Summit took place in 2019 in Istanbul with approximately 1000 participants 41 sessions and 53 speakers where Gulay Ozkan of GEDS was one of the invited speakers. The summit presents a comprehensive and rich content that covers many topics related to the field of education development within the framework of […]

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Behind the Scenes of a Large Scale Technology Project MATUROLIFE

Editor — Fri, 25 Oct 2019 10:22:49 +0000

GEDS received the Design Management Institute’s 2019 Design Value Awards in Boston recently for its innovative approach to design management of MATUROLIFE project. In this article, we will take a journey that explores the background of our design management approach. MATUROLIFE is a nanotechnology textile project funded by European Commission’s H2020 program that aims to create […]

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Welcoming You to Participate SXSW Place by Design Awards

Editor — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 17:06:57 +0000

Gulay Ozkan of GEDS has been invited as a member of the Advisory Board of SXSW – Place by Design Awards. As you may know, SXSW is a super influential brand that is founded in 1987 in Austin, Texas, best known for its conference and festivals that celebrate the convergence of the interactive, film, and […]

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Turkish Design Consultancy Bags Award from DMI

Editor — Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:16:35 +0000

Global design consultancy GEDS wins at the Design Management Institute’s 2019 Design Value Awards for its work with MATUROLIFE. Boston, Sep. 18 – GEDS has won second place at the Design Management Institute’s 2019 Design Value Awards with its innovative design management perspective in MATUROLIFE, a user-driven innovation project designed to help make independent urban living easier for […]

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GEDS is Working For a Happier Society: Maturolife

Editor — Wed, 28 Mar 2018 12:14:14 +0000

GEDS is granted as the design lead of MATUROLIFE project, a nanotechnology textile project that aims to create prototypes for assistive technology products enhanced with smart textiles that uses design as a strategic tool to make elderly people’s life more independent, comfortable and enjoyable. MATUROLIFE project, which is funded by European Union H2020 for Research& […]

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Gulay Ozkan Appointed Design for Europe Expert

Editor — Thu, 09 Jun 2016 12:47:55 +0000

As of June 8, 2016 Gulay Ozkan, founder at GEDS is appointed Design for Europe expert. Here is the press release: JUNE 8, 2016 GULAY OZKAN APPOINTED DESIGN FOR EUROPE EXPERT Gulay Ozkan at GEDS has been elected as a member of the Expert Panel for Design for Europe, the EC’s ‘European Design Innovation […]

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Alldesign 2015

Editor — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:43:33 +0000

Alldesign Creative Industries and Emerging Technologies Fair & International Design Conference 2015 was held between February 19th-21st in Lütfi Kırdar Convention and Exhibition Center. Starting off in 2011 with the motto of “seeing through the mind’s eye” and organized for the fourth time in 2015, Alldesign brought together widely-acclaimed local and international design experts. This year, […]

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Turkish Private Schools Association 14. Annual Education Symposium

Editor — Tue, 03 Feb 2015 12:30:19 +0000

Turkish Private Schools Association 14. Annual Education Symposium was held between 29th and 31st January in Belek, Antalya. GEDS was present in the symposium, delivering one lecture and two workshops. In accordance with the overall theme of “the Teacher of the Future,” Gülay Özkan’s lecture was about improving the experience of education. With a reference […]

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GEDS and TurkishWIN

Editor — Mon, 29 Dec 2014 10:49:56 +0000

GEDS designed and facilitated a co-design workshop with TurkishWIN (Turkish Women’s International Network), “a vibrant and global networking platform for women with family, cultural or professional ties to Turkey.” GEDS hosted TurkishWIN in its Karaköy office for the workshop. In the beginning of the workshop, the forms of relationships between TurkishWIN and its members and […]

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GEDS Participates in TSRRF

Editor — Thu, 26 Jun 2014 07:50:12 +0000

GEDS was present at TSSRF, a 48-hour hackathon which was held in Galata Greek Primary School between June 20-22 2014 organized by Institute of Creative Minds and the Department of State’s Fund for Innovation in Public Diplomacy of the U.S. Consulate, Istanbul. Being aimed at improving the culture of innovation in Turkey, TSRRF brought 150 […]

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DMI Night Out Istanbul: Design as a Tool for Making Change in 21st Century

Editor — Mon, 09 Jun 2014 12:02:32 +0000

DMI Night Out is a series of events hosted by local DMI members providing a source of support and partnership for today’s critical issues, connecting cross-disciplinary design and business leaders in their local communities, then sharing these global insights with the entire DMI community on the DMI website following the events. GEDS was pleased to […]

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GEDS Hosts the Second DMI Night Out Istanbul

Editor — Mon, 05 May 2014 09:42:55 +0000

GEDS is starting the spring with a great design event. We will be discussing “Design as a Tool for Making Change in 21st Century” with important speakers in DMI Night Out Istanbul on May 22nd Thursday at 7PM. This is a great opportunity for meeting with people from different creative industries. All are invited. Baharı güzel […]

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