Noticing through Walking
Let’s Get to Know Our Neighborhood Closely: Nature and Animals in the City Although cities are mostly created by and for humans, they are areas that host many living things. In this workshop, we focus ...
Neighbourhoods
Sustainability Efforts of a Neighborhood
This project aims to create a visual identity for all sustainability efforts of a neighborhood. From recycling to swapping or giveaways, we are exploring how a neighborhood can act together to sustain itself as a ...
Equal Participation in Human-Animal Interactions in Design
Team: Sena Cucumak and Özge Subaşı This work based on Animal-Computer Interaction (ACI) field in order to research and design equally with nonhuman animals beyond human-centrism. As a first step to study with nonhuman animals ...
Design Cards Toolkit: Supporting Designers in the Sharing Economy
A collaboration project between the University of Zurich, ZhDK and Koç University. Project Team: Anton Fedosov, Lisa Ochsenbein, Özge Subaşı This project aims to build a tangible toolkit for designers who work in the sharing ...
Gender and Security Perception in Istanbul – Workshop Report
The workshop “Gender and Security Perception in Istanbul” was organized in partnership with the Istanbul City Council Women’s Assembly, Koç University College of Social Sciences and Humanities HAT activities, and within the scope of the ...
A Co-speculation Play Method for Imagining Feminist Utopias
Team: Pınar Apaydın, Özge Subaşı Timeframe: 2020- We introduce a tangible prototype of a co-speculation play method. Through this co-speculation method, your collective aim is to re-claim, re-define private and public institutions, systems and technologies by re-thinking ...
INCA: Intergenerational New-Crafts Associations
This project aims to establish the first living lab environment in Turkey with a focus on the well-being of older adults. In the selected neighborhoods, this project explores the possibilities of digital craft-making, an emerging ...
Time & Ageing: Designing for the Retirement Time
Start Date: September 2020 Retirement is an important cornerstone in the life course for many of us. This project looks into how retirees (new, experienced) re-think their relations to time and work after the cornerstone ...
Sharing & Caring Network
Sharing and Caring: Sharing to Caring: Examining Socio-Technical Aspects of the Collaborative Economy is a European Network on collaborative economies. Futurewell is managing partner for Turkey in this project. Project page: The terms “Sharing Economy” ...