About me

Tuğçe Akbulut is a cross-disciplinary designer, a connector, and the founder of Cross Change. After pursuing a career as a spatial designer and as an art director for over 10 years, she started working with NGOs on social innovation and coordinated a social entrepreneurship incubation program for two years. Since then, she has been using her design skills to develop innovation programs, design both digital and physical spaces to experiment with the impact of design on social and environmental transformation. She has founded Cross Change, which designs impact-oriented creative projects, curates, and connects professionals to facilitate positive change. With one of the last projects that she developed in a collaboration with a Dutch architecture office, Pop Up Park İstanbul she expanded these experiments on to the public spaces. Tuğçe recently launched her curated bi-weekly newsletter named Cross Change Curated where you will witness how conscious design makes, triggers, and critiques positive change for a better society and planet. She is living and working in The Netherlands.

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Projects

• Pop Up Park İstanbulHow can we use tradition as a facilitator to transform monofunctional public spaces into collective, multi-functional, and value-added spaces to create more inclusive, livable, and greener cities?
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  Tradition as a Making ToolHow can we use traditions as a tool to shape a new culture to create a more inclusive community through public space design? ‘Tradition as a Making Tool’ is a research project. It focuses on using traditions and local culture as a facilitating tool to create a more inclusive and durable society. The aim is to activate public space by introducing a new form of urban design elements incorporating green. The purpose of showing the importance of green and to create multifunctional new places for i
• Public Space Intervention Co-DesignHow can increase attractiveness, liveability, and accessibility of Şişhane Square with an interdisciplinary design approach? We organized three-days co-design workshop within the event series of the “Designing Our Livable Cities Together” host by Consulate General of the Netherlands in İstanbul. We came together 30 creative professionals such as architects, sound designers, makers, illustrators and more to discuss livability and accessibility of public spaces. We picked a location, Şişhane Sq

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Skills

• Creative Art Direction
• Process Design