About
I am working on the REDUCE – Rethinking Everyday Plastics project as a part of my PhD at OsloMet, Department of Product Design. REDUCE is a research project, led by Consumption Research Norway at OsloMetropolitan University, that will look at plastics from a systems perspective and investigate how the consumption of plastic products in everyday life can be reduced. In my research, I focus more deeply on managing menstruation practice as a site for exploring sustainable plastic consumption in the context of everyday life while also covering other areas of plastic consumption. I am using an interdisciplinary approach combining social practice theory and systemic design to identify intervention points for sustainable plastic consumption.
I have a masters degree from the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical University (METU). I also worked as a research and teaching assistant in the same department for three years. My masters thesis, Sustainable design implications for alternative food networks: A case on Güneşköy community supported agriculture (CSA) model, explores the CSA model of an ecovillage initiative through the lenses of design for sustainability and social innovations, creative communities, and community-based design.
Field of study
Design methologoly Sustainable consumption Sustainable design Design research Systems-oriented design Practice oriented design Food consumption Plastic consumption
Research groups
Publications and research
Scientific publications
Sarısaltık, Ayşe Kaplan
; Gasson, Julian
(2026).
Does Plastic Need a Place in the Future– a Systemic Lens on Leaky Bodies and the Potential of Bioplastics [in press].
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5529281
Sarısaltık, Ayşe Kaplan
;
Hebrok, Marie
;
Gulden, Tore
(2025).
A Systemic Design Approach to Sustainable Menstruation Practices.
Proceedings of Relating Systems Thinking and Design.
Vol. RSD13.
https://doi.org/https://rsdsymposium.org/sustainab
Sarisaltik, Ayse Kaplan
;
Gulden, Tore
; Boks, Casper
(2025).
A visual scoping review of plastic consumption in everyday life.
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.
Vol. 16.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100248
Sarisaltik, Ayse Kaplan
; Sarisaltik, Ufuk
(2024).
An informal and transformative learning environment: The case of ODTÜ Bostan community garden in Turkey.
Cleaner and Responsible Consumption.
Vol. 15.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clrc.2024.100229
Yazirlıoğlu, Lilyana;
Sarısaltık, Ayşe Kaplan
; Doğanay, Demet
(2023).
Unfolding Openness: Critical reflection on the open design projects in Turkey.
Niinimäki, Kirsi; Cura, Kirsti (Ed.).
PROCEEDINGS 5th PLATE Conference. p. 1175-1181.
Aalto University.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3089959
Özçelik, Ayşegül;
Sarisaltik, Ayse Kaplan
(2021).
Multiple Lives of The Products: An Investigation of Products’ Journey in Freecycle Community.
Brandt, Eva; Markussen, Thomas; Berglund, Eeva; Julier, Guy; Linde, Per (Ed.).
Proceedings of Nordes 2021: Matters of Scale. 15-18 August 2021.
Nordes.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/5179924
Sarisaltik, Ayse Kaplan
; Yazirlıoğlu, Lilyana
(2021).
Design for Promoting Pro-environmental Behaviours of the Georgian Domestic Workers in Ankara.
Cumulus Conference Proceedings Series.
https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3701870
