Bathing Clogs

Post-Doctorate Project, 2011

Miné, with her “Bathing Clogs: From Traditional Turkish Bath to Present” project, was appointed as a post-doctorate fellow within the Post Doctorate Fellowship Program by the Turkish Cultural Foundation in 2010. She completed this one-year project as a Practice-Based Design Research Project Process through taking Desktop Research (historical research on Ottoman Bathing Clogs), Field Research, 2D and 3D Design Development, and Prototyping steps. Three bathing clog models; #1 Classic, #4 Tak Tak 2 and #5 Takunya, were finally prototyped by Miné for production.

You can also visit the blog covering the design process.

Please also check Tak Tak 1, the outcome of the Contemporary Hamam Workshop that Miné participated in 2003-2004 and displayed in the Hamam exhibition in Kulturhuset Stockholm, Sweden in 2004; Tak Tak 2, the second generation of bathing clogs, exhibited in the Saint-Etienne International Design Biennial in November, 2004; and Tak Tak 3, designed and prototyped in this practiced-based design research project.

Read the article at Hürriyet Newspaper

Project Team
Miné Ovacık hired junior designers and created a project team including:
Beyza Baran, Project Assistant
Kayahan Dede, Ezgi Ezdar, Summer Team 

Photography of Modelling and Prototyping by Miné and Beyza Baran
Infographics and Graphic Design by Beyza Baran
Sketches by Miné 
Photography (Bathing Clogs) by Özge Deniz Özker