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PUBLICATIONS &
CONTRIBUTIONS

Articles (Research Publications)​

  • Tepe, J., (2025). 'Reconfiguring Material Boundaries in Digital Fashion Design: Investigating Artistic Potential and Ethical Challenges of Materialising the Designer's Body in Digital Fashion Design Practices'. IFFTI Conference International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes. March 24-28, London, United Kingdom.

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  • Tepe, J. (2023). ‘Shifting Spaces in Fashion: Approaching Digital Design Spaces From a Physical Perspective’. International Association of Societies of Design Research Congress 2023 (IASDR23). October, 19-23, Milan, Italy. pp. 1-17.

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  • Tepe J., Gollob E., Escudero J.A., and Bastani, A. (2023). ‘Intra-Acting Body and Textile Expressions Becoming with Digital Movement Translation: Exploring relational expressions of the body and textiles using a human-robot-textile installation’. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’23), April 23–28, 2023, Hamburg, Germany. ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1-11.

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  • Tepe, J. & Koohnavard, S. (2022). ‘Fashion and Game Design as Hybrid Practices: Approaches in Education to Creating Fashion-related Experiences in Digital Worlds’. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education 16(1). Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd. pp. 1-12.

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  • Tepe, J. (2022). ‘Wearing Body Shapes: Designing and Experiencing Dress as Poly-Body Objects at the Intersection of the Physical and the Digital’. Proceedings of IFFTI Conference International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes. Nottingham, United Kingdom. April 5-8, 2022. pp. 1-18.

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  • Tepe, J. & Saleem, F. (2022). ‘The Body and Textiles at the Intersection of the Physical and the Digital Through Movement: Investigating Alternative Body-Textile Expressions for Fashion Design’. In Bruyns, G. & Wei, H (eds.) With Design: Reinventing Design Methods. Published by Springer Nature. Switzerland. Chapter 142. pp. 1-13.

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  • Tepe, J., (2021). ‘Digital Fashion Innovation from the Perspective of Artistic Design Research’. 2nd Digital Fashion Innovation Symposium. Manchester Metropolitan University. Manchester, UK.

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  • Tepe, J. (2021). ‘Investigating Sensory Perception as a Material for Fashion Design’. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI’21), Yokohama, Japan. May 8-13, 2021. pp. 1-10.

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  • Kooroshnia, M. & Tepe, J. (2020). ‘Using coloured lights in physical and immersive VR environments as material for design’. In: Griber, Y. A. and Schindler V. (Ed.), The International Scientific Conference Of The Color Society Of Russia. Smolensk, Russia. December 1–5,

    2020. pp. 207-212.​​

Books

  • Tepe, J. (2024). Designing Expressions of Body-Fabric-Space Intra-Actions. Doctoral Thesis. University of Borås.​​

Conference Speaker​​

  • Tepe, J., (2022). ‘Transforming 3D Body Scans into Digital Dress’. ArcInTex Network Symposium - Ph.D. Forum. Pennsylvania State University. Penssylvania, USA. April 8th, 2022.

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  • Tepe, J. (2021). ‘Body, Dress, and Technology - Investigating the Intersection of the Physical and the Digital in Fashion Design for Designing Dress’. The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education. The American University of Paris. Paris, France. October 1-2 2021.

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  • Tepe, J., (2020). ‘Imagining the Garment as a Perceptive Body’. Dress & Body Association - Virtually Undressed: Researching the Body in the Digital Age. Michigan State University. Michigan, USA. November 13-14, 2020.

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  • Tepe, J., (2019). ‘Sketching the Three-Dimensional with Virtual Reality Technology’. ArcInTex Network Symposium - Ph.D. Forum. L’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoartifs. Paris, France. December 18-20, 2019.

Editor

  • Bigolin, R., Brüggeman, D., Bugter, C., Tepe, J., Thornquist, C., Van der Voet, H. (2025) Apria Journal Special Issue: Dialogical Bodies: Everything and Everybody as Material. ArtEZ University Press.

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  • Tepe, J. (2024). Proceedings of the Dialogical Bodies Conference: Everything and Everybody as Material. April 19-20, Borås, Sweden. 98 pages. ISBN: 978-91-89833-51-7

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  • Schaumberg, I., Tepe, J., Greinke, B., Saleem, F. & Stasiulyte, V. (eds.) DRAFTS 3: Communicating Knowledge Through Design Research Artifacts. Published by designtransfer - Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. October 2022.

Exhibitions

  • Tepe, J. (2026). [Forthcoming] 'Diss(ev)Alving the Self: Procedural De/Generation of Bodies.' Exhibited at Soft+Ware: Redefining Fashion and Textiles. The Textile Museum Borås, Sweden. April 23 - June 01 2026.

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  • Tepe, J. (2026). [Forthcoming] 'Algorithmic Forming: Reshaping Body Forms as Hollow Architectures.' Exhibited at Soft+Ware: Redefining Fashion and Textiles. The Textile Museum Borås, Sweden. April 23 - June 01 2026.

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  • Kooroshnia, M., Tepe, J. & Gil, L. (2022). ‘Coloured Light Explorations in Different Realities’. Exhibited at DRAFTS 3: Communicating Knowledge Through Design Research Artifacts. designtransfer - Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. May 2022.

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  • Tepe, J. & Saleem, F. (2022). ‘Morphic Becoming of Textile-Body Movement’. Exhibited at DRAFTS 3: Communicating Knowledge Through Design Research Artifacts. designtransfer - Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. May 2022.
     

  • Tepe, J. (2021). ‘Potentials of Virtual Spaces for Designing Dress’. Exhibited at 1st Art Triennal - Unpredictable Futures, Molétai Region Museum. Molétai, Lithuania. May-October 2021.

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  • Tepe, J. (2021). ‘Designing Digital Dress in Virtual Spaces’. Exhibited at DRAFTS: Design Research Artifacts as an Intermediary Knowledge. Pakistan Institute of Fashion and Design. Lahore, Pakistan. March 2021.

Invited Research Talks

  • Challenges of a transitioning design discipline towards the digital - Presentation. Event hosted by Prof. Susanne Müller-Elsner at Akademie Mode und Design Hamburg. Hamburg, Germany. May 2022.

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  • Fashion Design Meets Speculative Design - Presentation. Event hosted by Prof. Illona Kötter at Akademie Mode und Design Bielefeld. Bielefeld, Germany. May 2022.

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  • The Digitization of the Fashion Design Industry - Presentation. Event hosted by Prof. Franziska Schreiber at University of Art and Design Burg Giebichenstein. Halle, Germany. January 2022.

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  • Using Virtual Reality Technology as a Tool for Fashion Design - Presentation. Event hosted by Prof. Muhammad Umar at Pakistan Insititue of Fashion and Design. Lahore, Pakistan. December 2020.

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  • Virtual Fashion Making - Presentation. Event hosted by Prof. Waldemar Kraus at Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. June 2020.

Organiser and Chair

  • Associate chair - ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). Singapore, Republic of Singapore. 13 - 17 June 2026.

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  • Associate chair - ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). Madeira, Portugal. 5 - 9 July 2025.

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  • Conference lead organisor and chair - Dialogical Bodies: Everything and Everybody as Material. Conference on artistic design research in fashion that was hosted by University of Borås, Sweden together with RMIT University, Australia, and ArtEZ University, Netherlands. 19 - 20 April 2024.

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  • Lead curator - DRAFTS 3: Communicating Knowledge Through Design Research Artifacts. Collaborative exhibition on artistic design research between University of Borås, Sweden and Berlin University of the Arts, Germany. 12 - 20 May 2022.

Received Awards

  • IFFT: NTUXIFFTI 2022 - Fashion Re-imagined. IFFTI Award: Best Full Paper for ’Wearing Body Shapes: Designing and Experiencing Dress as Poly-Body Objects at the Intersection of the Physical and the Digital’. At IFFTI Conference International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes. Nottingham, United Kingdom. April 2022.

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  • IFFT: NTUXIFFTI 2022 - Fashion Re-imagined. IFFTI Initiative Award: Doctoral Study for ’Wearing Body Shapes: Designing and Experiencing Dress as Poly-Body Objects at the Intersection of the Physical and the Digital’. At IFFTI Conference International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes. Nottingham, United Kingdom. April 2022.

Received Grants

  • Advancing Knowledge in AI-Driven Innovation for Circular Ecosystems in the Textiles and Fashion Industry. Funded by KK Foundation in 2025 as part of the Forskningsprofiler call.         » Grant: 45 million SEK, matched by 45 million SEK by company partners.
    » Runtime: 2025 - 2032.

       » Role: Co-applicant and member of the core team.

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  • Performance Wear - Artistic and Applied Design. Funded by KK Foundation in 2025 as part of the Avans Maxi call.
    » Grant: 1.9 million SEK.
    » Runtime: 2025 - 2027.

       » Role: Co-applicant and member of the core team.

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  • Digital Tools for Textile and Fashion. Funded by TEKO in 2025.

       » Grant: 1.9 million SEK.
       » Runtime: 2025 - 2027.

       » Role: Co-applicant and member of the core team.

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  • Establishing a Powerful Computer Platform for Digital Technology Knowledge Hub. Funded by TEKO in 2022.
    » Grant: 1.3 million SEK.
    » Runtime: 2022 - 2023

       » Role: Co-applicant and member of the core team.

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  • Scholarship for an artistic research residency as part of the FWF Peek Research Project - Fashion and Robotics call. Funded by Art University Linz in 2022.
    » Grant: 50.000 SEK
    » Runtime: August - October 2022

       » Role: Applicant and researcher in residency.

Reviewer​

  • ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). Singapore, Republic of Singapore. 13 - 17 June 2026.

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  • Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty Journal. Editor Annamari Vänskä. March 2026

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  • Evaluation Committee Member for Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor Position in Fashion and Product Development, OsloMet University, April - June 2025.

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  • ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS). Madeira, Portugal. 5 - 9 July 2025.

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  • International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology, and Education. Taylor and Francis. Editor Kristina Shin. March 2025
     

  • APRIA Journal (ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts), Issue ‘Dialogical Bodies’. Editor Danielle Bruggeman. September 2024

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  • SoftwareX Journal. Volume 27. Editor Randall Sobie. May 2024

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  • Textile Intersections Conference. Track: Interactive and Performative Textiles. Loughborough University London. London, United Kingdom. September 2023

Workshops

  • Tepe, J. (2023). Physically Engaging in Digital Fashion Design Processes. Workshop for BA and MA Fashion Design students. Art University Linz - Fashion and Technology Department. Linz, Austria. 15-17th November 2023.

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  • Tepe, J. (2023). Approaching Generative Adversarial Network Systems for Design in Fashion. Workshop for BA Fashion Design students. Berlin University of the Arts. Berlin, Germany. 30-31st October 2023.
     

  • Tepe, J., & Schreiber, F., (2022). Body | Dress | Data - Digitizing and Phygitizing Bodies. Collaborative Workshop for MA Students in Design & Computation and Fashion Design. Berlin University of the Arts and Technical University Berlin. Berlin, Germany. 16-18th August 2022.

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  • Braumann, J., Bastani A., & Tepe, J., (2022). Fantastic Robots and Where to Find Them. Collaborative workshop for international students as part of the Ars Electronica Festival Initiative. Johannes Keppler University and Kunstuniversität Linz. Linz, Austria. 29.08.2022.

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