Jan Tepe
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About
Jan Tepe is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of body-centric design, digital technologies, and textile expression. Her work fundamentally reimagines how the human body and digital tools co-create, moving beyond traditional notions of technology as mere instrument. Tepe’s key contributions lie in applying intra-action theory—a framework from quantum physics—to fashion and textile design, arguing that bodies and digital processes are not separate entities but mutually constitutive. Her most-cited paper, "Intra-Acting Body and Textile Expressions Becoming with Digital Movement Translation" (2023, 4 citations), proposes an alternative ontology where movement, material, and code emerge together. This work challenges designers to engage with digital technologies as active partners in creation, not passive tools. Though early in its citation impact, Tepe’s research is notable for bridging critical theory with practical design methodologies, offering a radical new vocabulary for fields like fashion, wearables, and performance. Her scholarship invites students and researchers to rethink agency, materiality, and the very act of making in an increasingly digitized world.
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