DOCTORAL PROGRAMME IN DESIGN, TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
Programme structure: The doctoral programme "Design, Technology and Society" offers a comprehensive research environment with up-to-date and interdisciplinary methods, focusing on the need for creative thinking and production encountered today in different research areas. Design research, which is related to art and craft in a historical context, covers many technical, social and creative fields with its industrial expansions today. Unlike the existing programs in Turkey, the program addresses areas of specialization such as design, performance, architecture and urban studies within the current developments in technology and their social, social, ecological and cultural contexts. Due to its flexible structure, the programme is sustainable that can be enriched with field elective and free elective courses and that is associated with research areas of the faculty members. The aim of this setting is to enable graduates to offer creative and innovative solutions to current social and technological problems with design research subjects, approaches and methods and to enrich the scientific literature by conducting original research.
Programme Objectives
- To focus on design research that can develop interdisciplinary methods, technologies and products that our country will need in line with the national development goals;
- To train academic designers who have gained the research infrastructure to establish a bridge between the fields of design, society, art and technology under architecture, interior architecture, industrial design and theater disciplines;
- To contribute to the design education and culture, sectoral collaborations, R&D infrastructure and research networks with the support of national and international research projects;
- To contribute to the development of our country by bringing together the products, tools, methods and research to be developed within the framework of the programme with sectoral partners through the technology transfer office (TTO) and design centers;
- To develop design research as an interdisciplinary programme with theoretical and practical education model as well as research studios focused on local development, which deals with product, architecture, urban, art and society scales.
Current Projects the Faculty Members in the Programme
- Ezgi Tuncer - Gender Dynamics of Labor Migration and Urban Life Experiences of High-Skilled Migrant Women: The Case of Istanbul (TÜBİTAK)
- Sabri Gökmen - Development of Computational Methods for the Analysis of Traditional Safranbolu Houses Plan Typologies with Contentious Generator Network Algorithm (GAN) (TÜBİTAK)
- Banu Manav – DESIGNHUB-İST Design Training and Application Center (İSTKA)
- Konca Saher – CONSIDER-Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development (Horizon)
- Nuri Cihan Kayaçetin – Whole Life Zero Carbon Buildings (IEA Annex 89)
- Ayse Erek - Dynamics of placemaking and digitization in Europe ́s cities (COST)
- Ayse Erek - Slow Memory: Transformative Practices for Times of Uneven and Accelerating Change (COST)
- Ayhan Enşici - iNOSUİT Innovation Oriented Mentoring Project
- Ayşe Elif Coşkun - Folk Art & Culture: Offering educational opportunities to young people (Erasmus+)
- Özlem Hemiş - ACT - Artistic freedom and Children's and youth's perspective in the arts in Turkey (Swedish Institute Creative Force)
