SEYLAN KANDAK

My social art practice is closely connected to my doctoral research on participatory art as a transformative tool for social sustainability. Through collaborative artistic experiences, I explore how art can activate emotional awareness, dialogue, and collective reflection on contemporary social challenges.

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These projects take the form of participatory workshops, installations, and community-based interventions developed with diverse groups of participants. By inviting people to create, write, or share gestures within an artistic framework, the works become living processes rather than fixed objects.

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Each initiative functions both as an artistic project and as a research experiment, allowing me to observe how shared creative experiences can foster empathy, resilience, and new forms of connection between individuals and communities.