Academic Staff

Elvan Ozkavruk Adanır studied textile engineering at Ege University, Faculty of Engineering. She got her masters and doctorate degree in art at Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Social Sciences respectively in 1992 and 1997. She worked as research assistant, lecturer, assistant professor and associate professor of traditional arts at Dokuz Eylül University between 1990 and 2008. In 2008 she got her professorship from Dokuz Eylül University. She published four books, 22 papers, 8 articles, and 2 book chapters. She translated the book written by J. Bronowski-B. Mazlish named “Western Intellectual Tradition from Leonardo to Hegel”. Her art works are accepted for international permanent collections. She opened several solo exhibitions and attended mixed exhibitions.

She graduated from Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Theater / Stage Design in 1990. In 1995 she received her master degree, and in 2001 she received PhD degree from Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Social Sciences. In the same years, she took part as a stage designer in several plays staged in various theatres. She gave seminars on mask design and production techniques in several universities, and attended television programs about it. Some of her works have been displayed in international biennales as well as exhibitions. She worked on retail design and fair stands in international fairs. At the same time, she realized some interior and exterior design works that enhanced the expression of spaces. She realized works about surface design in various cities of Italy as well as other European countries. She has been tutoring in Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design since 2007.

Dr. Arzu Vuruskan received her Bachelor (2002) and Master (2005) degrees from the Department of Textile Engineering at Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey. She got her second Master degree (2009) from Germany, Niederrhein University of Applied Sciences, Textile and Clothing Management programme; she got a DAAD award for this study program. Through her studies in Germany, she focused on made-to-measure clothing for performance sportswear and 3D body scanning; and took part in university-industry projects realized with Adidas and Hugo Boss. Her PhD studies at the Department of Textile Engineering (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey, 2010) investigated the body shapes by means of 3D body scanning, and mass customization in apparel. As a follow up of these research, she recently has been in the US at the Department of Fiber Science and Apparel Design at Cornell University, as a Fulbright visiting scholar between the years of 2015-2017. She started her professional career as a merchandiser in an apparel manufacturing plant (2002-2003); and continued her academic career as a Research Assistant (2003-2005), and as an Instructor (2006-2011) at Izmir University of Economics. She was appointed as an Assistant Professor in 2011 and as an Associate Professor in 2020. Among her research interests are clothing technology, functional clothing design, apparel fit and customization, CAD systems and innovations in fashion industry. Her administrative duties included the position as Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design at Izmir University of Economics between the years of 2011-2015. She is a university senate member since 2019.

After graduating from the Department of Economics at Ege University in 2010, she studied at İzmir University of Economics, Design Studies Master Program between 2011 and 2014. In the meantime, she found an opportunity to work in Orse Tekstil near 1 year. Here, she has gained experience in merchandising, collection preparation and production process in the textile industry, and has been able to carry out these processes. Since 2012, she is working as research assistant at Izmir Economy University, Department of Fashion and Textile Design. At the same time, she continues her education at İEU Design Studies Ph.D. Program.

Angela Burns is an illustrator and designer born and raised in Northern Ireland. She completed her Degree in Fashion and Textile Design at the University of Ulster, Belfast in 1999. She was granted an Arts & Humanities Research Council Award to pursue a European Master of Art in Fashion and Textile Design, at Winchester School of Art, England. She graduated in 2001 following extended exchange programmes to Hogeschool voor de kunsten in Utrecht, Holland, and the Institut Francais de la Mode, Paris. Her life and work experiences in various countries have influenced her numerous creative projects including illustration, textile and fashion design.

She graduated from Ege University, Department of Textile Engineering. After graduation, she worked at design and pattern departments of various Ready-to-Wear companies. She completed her graduate degree in Textile Engineering Ready-to-Wear option program in 1990 at Ege University. During her graduate degree studies, she attended Dokuz Eylül University-Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Textile Design. She completed her doctoral degree at Department of Ready-to-Wear in 1994. She started her academic career as an assistant professor at Dokuz Eylül University, Department of Textile Engineering in 1997. She was promoted to associate professorship in 2004 and professorship in 2009 at the same university. Among her interests are ready-to-wear technology, fashion design, CAD systems, smart clothing and designs. She conducted courses on fashion design at Department of “Fashion Design”, which was co-established with “FIT” at Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design during 2005-2007. During 2008-2009, she organized the entire academic programs as a fashion design program course leader at Istanbul Fashion Academy, established as part of The General Secretariat of Istanbul Textile and Apparel Exporters’ Associations. She conducted undergraduate courses in Fashion Design, Technical Textiles, Computer Aided Pattern Design, and she conducted graduate and postgraduate courses in CAD/CAM Systems, Smart Clothing Technologies and Applications, Design and Production Development in Textile Engineering. She currently provides counselling and execution for TUBITAK-TEYDEB and SANTEZ projects. 34 out of 60 of her articles were published abroad. She also worked as an ERASMUS coordinator at Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Engineering at 2010-2012.

Graduated from Industrial Design Department, Middle East Technical University (1989), Şölen Kipöz gained her masters degree from Dokuz Eylül University Fine Arts Faculty, Textile Department, and PhD from Communications & Public Relations Department in Aegean University (1998). Her post-doctorate research on Fashion Management took place in Bologna University through a scholarship from Italian Government. In Dokuz Eylül University, she worked as a research assistant in Fashion Accessory program and conducted jewelry design projects with World Gold Council there. Following her academic career in Izmir Institute of Technology Industrial Design Master Program, in 2001,she is assigned as a founding academic member of Izmir University of Economics, Fashion and Textile Design Department. There she has delivered number of bachelor , master and phd courses on design and theory. She published trend books on wedding fashions and ready to wear in collaboration with the industry. Her conceptual projects had outputs as exhibitions and publications such as the book entitled Dress Against Disaster (2007), which provided a theoretical basis for a design project that she supervised and exhibited in Social Design Biennial in Utrecht. Her research interests cover conceptual fashion design, interdisciplinary fashion studies, and ethical and sustainable fashion design. The last one has outcomes as artistic presentations and exhibitions through which she challenges the borders between design, art and crafts. Her personal exhibition Ahimsa: The other life of clothes (2012), her installations and performances for PortIzmir3 International Contemporary Art Triennial (2014) and Asteya (2017) exhibition are some of her notable works. Her design project, rag doll is registered as a utility model by Turkish Patent Institute in 2015 which can be produced and personalized by the user and has been co-created with women and children. In 2016 she presented this project in Royal College of Arts, London. The same year, Kipöz edited a collective book, entitled Sustainable Fashion (2015) published in Turkish that has become influential in the path of creating an awareness on slow and ethical fashion in Turkey. She is the author and the editor of the book entitled “Slowness in Fashion” ( 2020)

Born in Edirne, in 1989. After graduating from TEV İnanç Türkeş High School in 2007, she attended Izmir University of Economics, Fashion Design Department with full scholarship. Tekcan, who continued her education in the field of Fashion Design Expertise, had an opportunity of internship at Farbe Textile and Gamze Saraçoğlu Fashion Design Studio. She also received education in the Department of Advertising within the frame of Minor Program. In 2012, she graduated from Izmir University of Economics as the second ranked student of the university. Since September 2012, she has been studying Design Studies at IEU and working as a research assistant in the Department of Fashion and Textile Design.