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 2024: MAVA 455/DTES 555/GLBH 513 Design for Health and Wellbeing course is going to be opened!
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 2022, Spring 2021, Fall 2020, Spring 2020, Fall 2019, Spring 2019)
- MAVA 209 – Advanced Basic Design: Product Design Studio (Fall 2023, Spring 2023, Fall 2021, Spring 2021)
- MAVA 451 Design Anthropology , cross list course (Fall 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018) SOS Z15 Art Studio
- MAVA 453 Social Design Studio: Design Justice and Designing for Diversity (Spring2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021)
- MAVA 455 Design for Health and Wellbeing (Fall 2024)
Graduate courses:
- DTES 551 Design Anthropology , cross list course (Fall 2023, Fall 2019, Spring 2019, Fall 2018) SOS Z15 Art Studio
- DTES 553 Social Design Studio: Design Justice and Designing for Diversity (Spring2024, Spring 2023, Fall 2021)
- DTES 555/GLBH 513 Design for Health and Wellbeing (Fall 2024)
- 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, biennials, schools
As a service role at the university: We are co-organising Social Science Seminars and HAT Seminars.
Field Excursions: We sometimes organise class trips as part of course projects. Doğada Yaşam Okulu was visited in Spring 2023 within the scope of MAVA 209 Advanced Topics in Basic Design to learn practices and insights from people who sustain and are attuned to their lives in nature. Following this, in Fall 2023, we visited ÇAK (Çıplak Ayaklar Kumpanyası) Studio in Karaköy to talk with dancers and understand their approaches and practices in their works.
Permaculture gardening example-keyhole garden bed
Permaculture gardening example-Garden beds
Two different nesting boxes-right is a ready-made product, and the left is built by caregivers (the one is mostly preferred by chickens)