Ceren Sözer
Forward Furniture Exhibition
Dutch Design Week
2026
Common Plate draws inspiration from floor-dining traditions such as the Anatolian sofra, where people gather around shared dishes instead of individually plated portions. In shared eating, every bite comes from a portion that also belongs to others, the design piece makes this relationality visible.
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Summer Sessions Residency - Test_Lab
V2 Unstable Media, Rotterdam (NL)
2026
A choice-based game about where oppression is actually manufactured. Through a series of small, ordinary conflicts, the audience chooses between self-protection and repair. Each decision is followed by a short reflection, while every choice for repair opens the installation’s curtain slightly, exposing the research and diagrams the game is built on.
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DAE Grad Show
Dutch Design Week
2025
Quantum Dinner is a participatory performance and installation that embodies Deep Eating, a method developed by Ceren Sözer. Rooted in her research, the methodology takes inspiration from composer Pauline Oliveros’s practice of Deep Listening and extends it into the act of eating.
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Deep Objects Exhibition
DeFabriek, Eindhoven, NL
2024
Chimaera is a mountain in southern Türkiye where natural gas vents ignite into spontaneous flames. Rising directly from the rocky ground, these fires have burned for millennia, giving the site its name, Burning Rock. By tracing how this mountain’s image has shifted in collective memory across history, Saving Chimaera focuses on the Greek myth of the Chimaera and deconstructs it to reveal how a being becomes marked as a “monster.”
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In collaboration with Adi Friedman
Making Kin Exhibition
BASE Milano, Milan Design Week (IT)
2024
A Taken Hand is a speculative divination device built from found objects, inspired by the ancient practice of molybdomancy—where molten metal is poured into water and its forms are interpreted as signs of insight. Rooted in traditions from Mesopotamia, the ritual was often performed by gifted women to ward off the evil eye a.k.a. misfortune.
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Critical Inquiry Lab
Design Academy Eindhoven
2025
Deep Eating examines eating as a transformative, relational, and ritualistic act that influences subjectivity, embodiment, and shared existence. Rooted in personal experiences, it traces a journey of unlearning normative dietary habits and capitalist imperatives around food and the body.
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Part of a Collective Publication Today Has Been Cancelled, Tomorrow is the Question
2023
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2024
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