DTM provides material research, prototyping, co-production, training, and collaboration infrastructure for designers, entrepreneurs, SMEs, and industrial organizations.
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Analyzes waste, offcuts, and side streams; develops new materials and usage scenarios.
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Transforms the design idea into a physical prototype, sample, and trial production.
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Systematically matches designers, artisans, and industrial organizations.
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Transforms capacity, waste, and resource streams into sustainable business models.
Need
Designers need industry connection and technical infrastructure to materialize their ideas. DTM builds this bridge.
Join the DTM CommunityWhat DTM Provides
We offer both knowledge and physical infrastructure to build the bridge between design and industry.
We analyze production offcuts, natural wastes, and side streams from different sectors. We carry out characterization tests and trial productions to integrate these materials into new product scenarios.
We rapidly transform design ideas into physical products. We organize trial productions not only on a laboratory scale but also with industrial organizations in our stakeholder network.
We provide circular design trainings for designers and SMEs. We support sustainability-oriented business ideas with incubation and acceleration programs.
We bring together industrial organizations that want to add value to their waste or side streams with designers and researchers with the right competencies.
Builds a systematic bridge between the design idea and the industrial infrastructure.
Transforms waste, offcuts, and side streams into new product and material opportunities.
Facilitates circular product and material development with measurable processes.
Democratizes access to prototyping and production infrastructure.
Strengthens local production capacity and the creative ecosystem.
Supports Istanbul's goal of becoming a circular design and creative production center.
Basics
Fundamentals of integrating circular economy principles into design practice.
Material
Methods of incorporating waste, offcuts, and alternative materials into the design process.
Business Model
Creating circular revenue through PaaS, remanufacturing, subscription, and sharing models.
Production
Tools and practices of the process from idea to prototype, and prototype to product.
Industry
A guide for SMEs and industrial organizations on working with designers and developing projects.
Public
Circular policy, program, and pilot project design on an urban scale.
The Circular Design Center (DTM) was established with the aim of building a sustainable future by combining Istanbul's creative potential with its production capacity.
Transforming linear production habits to position design as a solution starting from waste management. Providing an interdisciplinary working environment for materials to regain value.
Making Istanbul one of the circular design and creative production centers on a global scale; enabling industrial symbiosis through design.
The necessary technological equipment and workspace to turn your idea into a tangible product.
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