Etkin Çiftçi is furthering his studies as a doctoral candidate at Istanbul Technical University, Industrial Design Department. He is lecturing at Kadir Has University, Department of Communication Design.
His research and professional interests are mostly in the domain of media arts, informatics, open source, co-creation, interaction design and industrial design within a human centric approach. His professional experience includes directing for documentaries, art direction for multimedia and some other standalone projects for web, TV commercials and theatrical productions.