Artist in Residence, Stockholm, 1 September–14 November 2025

Nur Horsanalı is a Turkish designer, researcher, and educator based in the Netherlands. With a background in industrial design, her practice critically engages with the built environment, industrial production systems, and the relationships between human and more-than-human actors within these realms. Working across collaborative exhibitions, publications, and educational formats, she activates spaces for reflection and dialogue while exploring decentralised approaches to design. Her current work is rooted in collective practice with the Sympoietic Society, a cross-border group addressing ecological loss and grief through site-sensitive interventions.

Photo: Nur Horsanalı

Nur Horsanalı, Halletmek, 2018.

During her IASPIS residency, she will revisit her research and publication project Halletmek, which documents situated, improvisational, and non-institutional design practices from the streets of Istanbul. Her focus will be on how these practices reflect decolonial aesthesis in design. In parallel, she will continue to develop a publication with Sympoietic Society, expanding their framework for collective practice and research into storytelling and embodied exercises for ecological attunement.

Horsanalı teaches design at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague and at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), working across the discipline’s artistic and industrial spectrum. She holds a BSc in Industrial Design from Istanbul Bilgi University and an MA in Contemporary Design from Aalto University, Finland. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial: A School of Schools (2018) and In Search of the Pluriverse at Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2022). She co-curated the exhibition programme Undercurrents at Sectie-C in Eindhoven (2024). Just before arriving at IASPIS, she participated in a group residency with Sympoietic Society at the Saari Residence in Mynämäki, Finland.