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    Characterizing industrial design education in Turkey: a current synthesis for future directions
    (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi, 2015-06-26) Doğu, D. I.; Öğüt, Ş. T.; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay
    In recent years, we see an expansion of schools offering degrees at different levels in the field of industrial design in Turkey. Reasons for this expansion can well be found outside the design field itself as well as the national education reforms. This shift towards corporatization of universities is a business model usually adapted from foreign models. This adoption in education models also lead to the expansion of industrial design programs especially in private universities. Despite the rapid growth of industrial design education in Turkey, there is relatively little knowledge about the features or qualities that serve to identify these design departments. The main aim of this article is to discuss characteristics of industrial design departments in Turkey as a case regarding programs' profiles in geographical distribution, housing universities and faculties, academic members, student selection criteria and student numbers. Final remarks are recommendations for a prospective state of design education in Turkey.
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    Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers
    (MIT Press, 2016) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan
    Industrial design (ID) is a fairly young and largely unknown profession in Turkey. Although significant developments have taken place in the field of ID in the past 15 years, the scope of scholarly attempts to analyze the sociological meaning of designing in the Turkish context is extremely limited. We use boundary work and professional ideology as salient concepts for a sociological understanding the ongoing professionalization process of Turkish industrial designers, who are developing professional identities and striving for recognition in the larger culture. This paper relies on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with key players (i.e., ideologues) of the Turkish ID scene to analyze these boundary-work processes. We found that the positive collective identity of Turkish industrial designers is built on a formulation of negative others. These negative others are ideological antagonists that are pushed to the “other” side of the demarcation line. Negative others are especially dominant in the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers because the perceived threats from these antagonists shape the collective consciousness. However, the construction of these others is an ambivalent process in which they also become ideological “friends.” We also demonstrate that professional ideology plays a pivotal role in producing, reproducing, and legitimizing claims of professionalism.
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    International design organizations: Histories, legacies, values
    (Oxford University Press, 2023-08-21) Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay
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    Kamusal tuvaletlerde kullanıcı deneyimini anlamak: bir araştırma yöntemi olarak kültür sondaları
    (Mimar Sinan Güzel Sanatlar Üniversitesi, 2015) Köylü, Z. S.; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay
    Gündelik yaşamın önemli bir parçası olan kamusal tuvaletlerin koşulları bu tesisleri sürekli kullananların yaşam kalitelerini belirgin ölçüde etkilemektedir. Kullanıcılar kamusal tuvaletlerde yer alan ürünlere konut tuvaletlerindeki ürünlerden farklı yaklaşmakta ve kir ile başa çıkmak adına farklı kullanım biçimleri geliştirmektedir. Çalışmanın amacı kullanıcının kamusal tuvaletlerde temiz-kirli algısı ve ürün kullanımı arasındaki bu ilişkiyi incelerken, kültür sondalarının bu mahrem ve hassas ortamda araştırma yöntemi olarak kullanılabilirliğini de ortaya koymaktır. Tuvaleti gündelik yaşam pratiğinin gerçekleştirilmesinde vazgeçilmez rolü olan kültürel bir nesne olarak değerlendiren çalışmanın, kullandığı yöntem ve benimsediği yaklaşım ile tasarım araştırmalarına ve pratiğine de katkıda bulunması beklenmektedir.
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    The role of interaction design in smart product development activities
    (2015-10) Akoğlu, Canan; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; AKOĞLU, Canan; ER, Hamit Alpay
    Although interaction design is a rapidly growing and even evolving design practice today, interaction designers still often have to explain what an interaction designer actually does and argue that their specialty is not something that anyone could do without a formal education both to stakeholders and clients who buy their designs.Furthermore, there still seems to be confusion when the job of industrial designers and interaction designers are overviewed together. The aim of this article is to build a background for the role of interaction design in smart product development activities within relationship to industrial design. Based on its strong roots within industrial design, this study also aims to present the relationship between industrial design and interaction design in the same activities. We conducted this research by having an interdisciplinary literature review and a field research consisting of 2 phases such as a series of interviews and a case study. The most extensive collaboration between industrial design and interaction design is seen at Planning and Concept Development phases which are the very early steps of product development activities. Compared to industrial design, interaction design is foreseen to have a wider activity area, a more strategic role in especially in early design process such as Planning, Concept Development phases of smart product development activities.