The process of Advanced Product Design Studio in METU ID 2011-2012 Spring

2. 2011-2012 Spring Semester
Faculty of Architecture ID 501 Advanced Project
Department Of Industrial Design Development In Industrial Design
Erasmus IP Project Partnership with TU/Eindhoven & Hogeschool Sint-Lukas
Brussel:
Cultural Differences in Practice
Inst. Figen IŞIK, Part-Time Inst. Burcu DERER OMAY, Res. Asst. Yekta
BAKIRLIOĞLU
Hande IŞIK
Selma KADİROĞLU
Ceren KÖKTÜRK
Hande ÖZTAŞ
Zeliha UYURCA
Nur YILDIRIM

3. Our approach of design is also inspired
by…
Culture is simply what gives meaning to
actions, which it does by providing a sense
of coherence or patterning and
predictability. It provides the lens through
which one interprets events, scenes, and
actions.
Robert Gordon

4. What to look and observe?
An underlying shared system of
information and knowledge that is
manifested through patterns of norms,
behaviors and signifiers.

5. Main Argument
By observing the change in notion of
culture, we aim to explore dynamics of
culture via inspecting the everyday life
practices, which are shaped by
modernization, performed in public
spaces through urban equipment.

6. Method and Approach
Initiative
elements
and
Origins
Needs
e.g.History
Politics
Practices in Context
How can we read the meanings of practices?

7. Lack of
communication, Needs of people
Urban Socialization,
Equipments, Recreation
Activites
Loitering is observed to be a repetitive
motive in urban spaces.

8. OPERATION
OUTPUT
INPUT ACTS
(Meaning
(Meaning) (Operation)
Creation)
Practices Cultural Reproduction
Meaning Making
Loitering
Representation
Operations Patterns
Thick Description: There may be various reasons behind practices and actions

9. Loitering
• to stand about without any aim or purpose;
• to stand about idly;
• to linger;
• to hang around…
• Historical meaning related to great depression,
economics, modernization and urbanization

10. Psychology of Space
Human desire space…

11. Physical Control
Controlling access to certain features

12. Perspectives of Ownership
Our relation to the space we inhabit
“I belong to this land” or not?

13. Graffiti Culture Tests Ownership…

14. Perspectives of Ownership
Vandalism as a result of Loitering

15. Loitering
Socialization Vandalism
Entertainment Pollution
Lived space creation Insecurity

16. Loitering
Through intersection of „Lack of urban equipment and
space for socialization‟ and „The need for existence
in urban/public/social space‟
Practiced in Urban Space
To loiter as a habit and loitering areas as habitus
Loitering as an activity: „Doing nothing is doing something
Subversion is created
Lived Space is created
Vandalism and „Bad Habits‟ are seen as material manifestation

17. Lack of
communication, Needs of people
Urban Socialization,
Equipments, Recreation
Activites
Loitering is observed to be a repetitive
motive in urban spaces.

18. Loitering
Motives Behind;
Release Tension (Work, Stress)
Bored (Boredom)
Not Enough Activity Spaces (Lack of Urban
Equipments and Spaces)
Enjoyable (Leisure Time spent with friends)

19. Operation
Inputs Acts Outputs
Boredom To Loiter Relax
Meaning Meaning Creation
Reason

20. Loitering
Argument: A practice that is acted in certain spaces, Loitering is a
habit and habitus that is caused with the lack of urban space for
socializing and the need for art of being / existence in social
space. Due to safety reasons however, loitering connotes with
negative implications and furthermore illegal in some places.
Can we create positive implications through understanding and
encouraging the practice through an interactive installation?

21. Design Proposals
1- Loitering Area
2- Tracking Installation
3- How to Loiter / Positions

22. Design Proposals
1- Loitering Area
A space that loitering is encouraged
Signs as 'please loiter', 'you can loiter here‟
People are encouraged to put waste or put sth personal in order to create personal space
through material manifestation

23. Design Proposals
2- Tracking Installation
People that are spending time in a certain place, sitting, walking, loitering, are tracked
by a camera and the motives are reflected in the same place to make them notice
their practice.

24. Design Proposals
3- How to Loiter / Positions
Spaces in which loitering is common are observed and loitering methods are studied
in order to come up with loitering styles. Shapes or silhouettes are painted/reflected
in the space in order to attract attention to habit and habitus.

25. Local Marketplaces (Bazaars)

26. Local Marketplaces (Bazaars)
As a result of commercial activities, spaces are created due to
convenience of variety of products, availability and ease of
transportation.
Consumption Communication
Doing activities Choice
Local
Socialization Marketplace Intimacy, trust
Public, social and political reasons create local marketplace spaces
but it turns into a representational space by the involvement of
people.

27. Input / Act / Output
Socialization / Local Marketplace Shopping / Material
Ownership & Spending
Belonging / Advantage,Bargaining / Satisfaction
Activity / Open Space Walking, Discovery and
Creation / Satisfaction
Habit of Consumption / Buying, Shopping /
Manifestation of Class and Taste

28. • Argument:
Shopping from marketplaces and bazaars
are still practiced in spite of the advantages
of supermarkets. How can we understand
and question the reasons behind the bazaar
practice?

29. Design Proposals
• Aim:
Understanding the reasons of continuity of
shopping from local marketplaces through an
installation that represents local market place
experience
Chaos, Intimacy, Order, Repetition
Experience of Marketplace: Interaction,
Involvement

32. Transportation

33. Dolmuş as a Transportation Practice

34. Dolmuş as a Transportation Practice
• “Dolmuş” as a specific symbol of Turkish transportation
practice
• Part of EDL
• Emergence of dolmuş under the effects of urbanization,
modernization
• Cramped and small place in which there is a circulation
of people
• Requires attention, there is involment and Interaction
• Intimacy, personal space

35. Transportation as a Practice
Transition between everyday life
activities (Work-Leisure)
To reach a certain place B
from A, through a route;
having a shared space with
strangers.
The same route, the same
aim Strangers and
conflicts…

36. Design Proposals
Due to lack of personal space and comfort
1- Observing how personal space and intimacy are created
2- Children‟s giving up their seats to elderly people

37. Design Proposals
1- Observing how personal space and intimacy are created
Designing interchangable seating arrangement in order to
let people interact and create personal spaces and
intimacy as individuals or groups

38. Design Proposals
2- Children‟s giving up their seats to elderly people
Designing a personal space for children in Dolmuş and
observing the reactions and transformation of practices
of agents

39. Q&A
Thank you