We offer PhD scholarships and Master’s Degree positions as a part of the DTES graduate program at Koç University. Accepted students work and study as a part of Futurewell Research Group (not KU Design Lab, nor Arçelik KUAR center!)
Information Website: https://gsssh.ku.edu.tr/en/admissions/application-deadlines/
Online applications: https://apply.ku.edu.tr/gradapp
Informal inquiries, please contact ozsubasi(at)ku.edu.tr, (include your scientific written piece samples to your email) Our general interests: Open topics
TEACHING
Fall 2022: No courses are offered by Futurewell team!
Mava 453/DTES 553 ! Social Design Studio: Design Justice and Diversity
Open positions: Currently, we are looking for Master’s students to extend our team. We also accept applications for tutorship and work&study programs, starting Spring 2023.
Graduate Students (PhD, and exceptional MA students) – 1 Guest Researcher position is open for Spring 2023
Get involved in our design projects and join to our group as:
- INDEP: Independent study
- MAVA 444 Open topics
- MAVA 446 (Graduation Project) Open topics
Design Studio Courses (Undergrad) -Please consider that the newest version of the course content is always in KUSIS.
- MAVA 104 – Basic Design studio (with social components) (Spring, 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019)
- MAVA 209 – Advanced Basic Design: Product Design (Fall 2021, Spring 2021)
- MAVA 453 Social Design Studio: Design Justice and Designing for Diversity (New Design Studio/Seminar-Planned Fall 2021)
- MAVA 451 Design Anthropology , cross list course (Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018)SOS Z15 Art Studio
Graduate courses:
- DTES 551 Design Anthropology , cross list course (Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018)SOS Z15 Art Studio
- Critical Game Design (INDEP) (Spring 2020)
- Graduate Projects around social design topics
Independent Projects for cutting edge topics, current:
- INDEP: Critical Game Design
- INDEP: Co-Play: Game Design with Older People
- Design Justice and Diversity
As a community contribution: We are happy to co-organise events at municipalities, biennals, schools
As a service role at the university: We are co-organising Social Science Seminars and HAT Seminars.