Design as an act of Creative Resistance.

Designing products, spaces and systems that help people think, make and learn.

Designer · Researcher · Founder, GOM Design.Tech

Let’s Connect
ımpact ın numbers.
Years of Experience
Years of GOM
Workshop Venues
Kids / Gomers

A Way of Thinking. **Between preserving the old and embracing the new, I believe design can make life more meaningful, inclusive, and sustainable.**

Design, Learning, and Making

Practice

My practice moves across disciplines rather than within them. From products and interiors to exhibitions, learning experiences, and artistic installations, I approach every project as part of a connected design ecosystem where creativity, research, and human experience meet.

Let’s Collaborate

Beginning with a single patented paper module called GOM, GOM Design Tech has grown into an ecosystem of workshops, research, and educational innovation that explores how design can nurture creativity, learning, and human potential.

DesignTech

Design Education

Learning by Making

Creativity

Research

Design is where ideas become tangible. My work spans interior architecture, product and furniture design, exhibitions, branding, and design management. Rather than separating these disciplines, I see them as interconnected ways of shaping meaningful experiences across different scales.

Interior Design

Furniture Design

Toy & Game design

System Design

Design Management

My practice sits at the intersection of design, making, learning, and material culture. I have never been particularly interested in disciplinary boundaries; the distinctions between art and design, craft and education, thinking and making may appear clear in institutions, yet they dissolve in practice. I see making as a way of thinking, and learning as a creative act. Through paper, participation, and form, I explore how knowledge is embodied through the hands, how materials carry cultural meaning, and how creative practices can resist simplification in an increasingly accelerated world. My work is ultimately concerned with relationships rather than categories.

Creative Resistance

Embodied Knowledge

Material Culture

SPACE, PLAY & PAPER.

Selected Projects

From a patented paper toy to suspended installations and learning spaces, gamification, selected projects across design, education, and art.

Brand + DESIGN + Education
GOM

What began as a patented paper module has grown into a design education ecosystem, reaching thousands of children across dozens of venues on three continents.

ınstallatıon + ART
Dream ON

A suspended paper structure at Bıçakçı Han, İzmir — hand-assembled over seven hours, unit by unit. No undo.

INTERIOR DESIGN + GAMIFICATION + MUSEUM
PTT STAMP MUSEUM

A 100 m² illustrated children’s floor for Istanbul’s stamp museum, exhibition design built for play.

talks + mentorıng + Semınars
The Courage To Create

Creative courage and design culture; seminars for schools and companies, university juries, and guest lectures, delivered in person and online.

  • A creative women entrepreneur

    “She teaches geometry.” — HBT Magazine, No. 15, 2019
    HBT Magazine.
    No:15, 2019

  • Talks

    She believes in creative resistance in designing the future. 
    Jeff Talks, Studio-X
    2019, Istanbul

  • Recognition

    GOM was shortlisted from 8,000 products to the final 100, and collected by the China Academy of Art for five years.
    Design Intelligence Award
    Hangzou, China
WHAT I HOLD TO MYSELF

The 4E Framework

Whether it’s a product, a space, or a workshop, every project I try to take on is measured against four commitments:

1. ECONOMY

Design as investment, not expense. Viable, resourceful, and built to last, solutions that make sense for people and for the businesses behind them.

2. ECOLOGY

Recyclable, biodegradable, local. GOM is made of paper — no batteries, no screens, no plastics — and every project starts by asking what the planet can afford.

3. ETHICs

Inclusive and equal by design. Gender-neutral from the start: not pink nor blue, it is colourful.

4. EVIDENCE

Claims are easy; data is not. Ten years of field research, 8,000+ children observed, published papers, and award-winning presentations I measure what design does, not just what it promises.

Want to see what this looks like in action?

Let’s Play together

Contact

Whether it’s a spatial design project, a GOMYAP workshop, a speaking engagement, or a collaboration.

Based in Kadıköy, Istanbul, Türkiye

Design as an act of Creative Resistance © since 2015 Gizem Aytaç