Pınar Akkurt is an artist and designer, exploring waste, material reuse, and participatory upcycling processes. She develops experiments with everyday objects and soon-to-be-waste materials to design sustainable systems at different scales. Akkurt is the founder of The Upcycling Library, a platform that researches and archives simple uses of everyday waste. Her work bridges art, design, and environmental activism, cultivating new forms of connection between objects, people, and the environments they inhabit.