2024 – Comes with ❤️-beat, snow, and much more…

Coming up of the new year was certainly a need, where 2023 brought up heavy disasters and wars around the globe..🌑 2024 will hopefully be a better year, personally, starting with a “❤️-beat”, which is a joint project with AI Ethics Lab, and will go on with academic studies in Boston starting in early spring.. The…

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Winter 2023 – 🐰

As a “Born in a rabbit year”, 2023 started with a giant step with developing my score from 59 minutes to 46 in the open water swimming contest which was held in my hometown Datça that I participated for the first time + also the first time to swim in winter; in January. Winter 2023 had…

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“Fall” in love..🍂🤎 – Datça 2022

Fall started with the revenge of the Marmaris open water competition by completing the track under 1 hour (59:57🙂) at Palamutbükü, where my randomly selected competition number -311- was special for me in many ways. We also celebrated our 1st year with Buket🐢 with a mini picnic accompanied with his pretty novel nature walk in…

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Summer 2022 ☀️

Although I thought that 2022 was going to be an İstanbul year, it is again a Datça year⛱ with a short delay at My First Artwork..😶 The delay brought in a surprising work, the Knidos ARt Project🏛, with two “very new” friends -Orhun and Ayşenur- where the study may lead to surprisal results by the…

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2022 — Year of the Tiger 🐅

This year is the year of the “Tiger” in the lunar calendar, just as its relative “Pars” in the ancient Turkish calendar with 12 animals..🐆 As the year is characterized by a revival of dynamism, the first part of 2022 includes the activation of My First Artwork🎨, and the end is expected to come with…

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Coming up of 2022 🎄

Due to 2022’s being an even number, it seems it will be an “İstanbul year” [see: About🙂]. In the ordinary course of things, the beginning of the year will show up with the activation of My First Artwork🎨 and the end will come with Ivona🐚 – maybe with an open water competition🏊🏼‍♂️ somewhere between. Hoping the…

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About

Deniz is an interdisciplinary educator and visual designer living in two disparate locations of Turkey (odd numbered years in Datça – even numbered years in İstanbul). Holding a quartet of degrees from varied institutes of different schools in İstanbul, his studies are naturally interdisciplinary; mainly on education, physics, environment, natural sciences, and digital design. His latest…

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Recent Works

“The Recycling Factory Challenge” is a mini software game for children showing the basic steps of the recycling process. In the game, a young animated character goes through a general review of the basics of recycling for getting ready to work at a recycling factory. In the factory, learners command the character to make the…

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Lise 44 – Datça

Datçalı arkadaşlarımıza -ve de özellikle 6 Şubat depremlerini yaşayarak Datça’ya gelen gençlerimize- ücretsiz eğitim destek ve danışmanlığı: Lise 44 🌿🌿🌿 Aslında biz Datçalı sayılırız – 1987’den beri… Ve 2019’la birlikte artık daha da bir Datçalıyız..🙂 Bugüne kadar, Datça’da olmadığımız zamanlardaki(!) İTÜ – Boğaziçi – Mimar Sinan gibi köklü okullardan derecelerle mezuniyetler ve yurtdışındaki okul deneyimlerimizle, gençlerimize en güçlü desteği verebilmeyi…

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