Dila Demir


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  1. Multi-Sensory Design for Somatic Wellbeing
  2. Pain Creature
  3. Caring Compnaion
  4. Squeaky/Pain
  5. Aura

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  1. Woven Narratives: Immersive Rugs
  2. Pain Creature/Performance
  3. Odyssey for One
  4. Interactive Costume Design
  5. Metamorphosis
  6. Memory Space
  7. Textile Explorations

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1. Multi-Sensory Design for Somatic Wellbeing





The illustration represent restricted diatery loop many people with chronic gut diseases experience. By Dila Demir

Multi-Sensory Design for Somatic WellBeing is a two years long design research project that is lead by me.  The project explores the challenges faced by individuals living with chronic gut diseases, with a specific focus on personal and social obstacles related to stigma. Particularly, the project focuses on excrement stigma. Excrement is a natural metabolic waste product resulting from the breakdown of food in the large intestine, yet it remains highly stigmatized and rarely discussed openly. This stigma affects everyone, as many struggle with feelings of embarrassment or discomfort around the topic. However, people living with chronic gut diseases challenged by this stigma in everyday life.  Through this project, I  explore how creative expressions and social engagements can help individuals to tackle the excrement stigma.

 The project is funded by the Estonian Academy of Arts artistic research grant (2023-2025).


Project Publications

Demir, A. D. (2025) Embodied Data: Gleaning Narratives of Living with Chronic Gut Diseases to Guide the Design Process, in Karyda, M., Çay, D., Bakk, Á. K., Dezső, R., Hemmings, J. (eds.), Data as Experiential Knowledge and Embodied Processes, 12-13 May, Budapest, Hungary. https://doi.org/10.21606/eksig2025.109