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Abstract
The literature on social design consists of studies that report on single cases on the one hand and global reviews that are offered for theoretical purposes on the other. There is a lack of local reviews that report on social design practices that stem from peculiar political, economic, design professional and educational contexts. In response to this gap, we provide a review of 27 social design practices in Turkey from the last decade. The projects are compiled in accordance with social design criteria derived from the literature. Sampled projects were analysed via textual analysis of their representations on design media. In our findings, we demonstrate the ways in which local context shapes local social design practices. We also outline a framework for the discussion of prominent issues, range of actors, objectives, and participatory approaches.
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Selin Gürdere Akdur
Selin Gürdere Akdur is a PhD candidate in Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University. Trained in industrial engineering specializing in wood products, she received her MA in Design. Her current research is on the social and political dimensions of activist art and design practices as well as the participation/collaboration of multiple actors in these practices, through a critical perspective.
Harun Kaygan
Harun Kaygan is assistant professor of Industrial Design at Middle East Technical University. His research interests include design activisms, politics of bodily interactions, and new materialist theoretical frameworks, with a focus on ethnographic and generative methods in research and teaching. He is a founding member and coordinator of STS TURKEY, the science and technology studies scholarly network of Turkey.