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Oğuz Emre Bal

Artist · Architect · Researcher · Founder

Understanding reality by altering it through different perspectives.

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App · Research

2026–present

DocViz APP

Visualize & understand any document with AI — uploads become interactive visual maps of structure and relationships: Classic, Node Map, Mind Map, and Text views, powered by local Ollama models.

information as space

App · Product · Research

2026 — in development

Solar Dial APP

The relationship operating system for people who refuse to let the people they love drift away — contacts orbit you, drifting outward as time passes, making relationship decay visible before it becomes permanent loss.

information as spacespatial memory

Product · Art · Research · Video Animation

2026

Solleria - Authenticated Singular Designer Clutches

A collection of one-of-one, digitally authenticated designer clutches with unique surfaces and collectible design.

computational matterphysical-digital intersectionCan we verify the singularity of an object?

App · Research

2025–present

Brainie APP

Personal knowledge graph powered by AI — organize information into separate 'brainies', visualize connections in a customizable 3D graph, and let AI extract keywords and process content.

information as spacespatial memory

XR / Spatial · App · Product · Research

2025–present

Reality Overlap XR APP

Persistent AR/XR platform for spatial collaboration in real architectural environments — spatial anchors, wayfinding, place-based memory, and a web-based spatial data analysis tool with AI-interpreted heatmaps.

physical-digital intersectionembodied cognitionspatial memory

Research · App · Product

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Trackie APP

A tool that turns any text into an interactive map of its structure, meaning, and connections.

information as spaceHow to visualize and navigate complex information?

XR / Spatial · Product · Research · App

2023–present

METAKIŞLA APP - Immersive Learning

A 3D immersive building game that turns the joy of building into a hands-on education in how the world is made.

embodied cognitionlearning through spacephysical-digital intersection

Art · XR / Spatial · App · Research · Video Animation

2022–ongoing

Meta Materials // Droplets

An avant-garde digital art project exploring materiality in virtual spaces and questioning the nature of reality.

physical-digital intersectioncomputational matterHow aesthetics of virtual realm alter understanding of physical world

Architecture · Interior · Research · Video Animation

2021

The Living O’Pod

A minimal, decentralized, and connected housing concept that nurtures the habitant's soul, mind, and resilience for social, environmental, and technological challenges.

computational matterpermeable boundariesResearching new possibilities for better living

Research · App · Art · Video Animation

2021

Trouble Market APP aka dertedin

Speculative design installation imagining personal anxieties as tokenized, tradeable financial instruments — exposing the logic of financializing human distress.

speculative futuresdigital identity

Research

2019–present

Architectural Design of Multi-Cognitive Reality Generated in Virtual Environment

Ph.D. research at ITU investigating how multi-cognitive realities are generated and designed in virtual environments — the theoretical spine of the entire practice.

embodied cognitionconsciousness as spacephysical-digital intersection

Art · App · Product · Research · Video Animation

2019

Specularism APP

An interactive data sculpture that explores the mutable nature of reality within the contemporary digital landscape.

digital identityphysical-digital intersectionWhat is the nature of individual and collective realities in the social media era?

Architecture · Research

c. 2015–2017

Experimental Tower Studies

Algorithmic form-finding studies for high-rise typologies during GAD's computational design research period.

computational matter

Product · Research · Architecture

c. 2016

Milano Marble Fair Stand

Fair stand design for a marble exhibition in Milan, with GAD Architecture.

embodied cognition

Architecture · Research

2016

Waffle Structure — WAF Future Vision

Biomimicry-driven study of future architectural space: a flexible structure that unfolds and adapts to boundary conditions — light, view, landscape, climate. Presented as WAF Future Vision 2016; 25,000 m² mixed-use study for Berlin.

permeable boundariesspeculative futures

Art · Research · Product · XR / Spatial · Video Animation

2014–2017

Space Hackers APP

Participatory platform inviting citizens to identify and 'hack' inaccessible urban spaces — mapping them as sites of latent potential and proposing collaborative interventions.

co-authored spacepermeable boundaries

Research

2013–2015

Instant Space Design by the Experience of Movement

M.Sc. thesis at ITU: designing instant space through the experience of movement — where the practice's body-space-cognition thread began.

embodied cognitionspatial memory