Ayca Tunc Cox

Izmir Institute of Technology · Industrial Design

Being diagnosed with cancer is traumatic and life-changing for children. Due to the disease and treatment, children experience suffering, pain, interruption in school and playful activities, and separation from social and familiar environments. These negatively affect their quality of life (QOL). This article reports a co-design process conducted w...

Katılımcı tasarım, kullanıcının da tasarım sürecine anlamlı katılımının sağlanması ve tasarlanan çevre veya ürünün üzerinde söz hakkına sahip olması anlamına gelir. Özellikle çocuklar tasarım süreçlerine dahil edildiğinde onlarla daha iyi iletişim kurarak ihtiyaçlarını daha iyi anlayabilmek adına bu süreçte dikkat edilmesi gereken birçok unsur vard...

Turkey has become the first and main transition hub for Syrian refugees. Furthermore, Turkey is spatially as well as culturally simultaneously referred to as European and Asian or Middle Eastern depending the point of view. Therefore, the representation of refugees in the Turkish press proves significant for the knowledge produced about refugees. A...

Parasite (Bong Joon-ho, 2019) is addressed as one of the best films of the last decade by many critics, a claim which is reinforced by the film’s international success (Four Oscars including the Best Film and Best Director, Palm d’Or, Best Foreing Film in Golden Globe etc.). The film is a contemporary audio-visual text that problematizes the issue...

This article strives to investigate how the so-called Syrian refugee crisis is reflected in cinematic narratives by analyzing one of the first films on the topic by a Turkish filmmaker. Misafir (The Guest) (2017), directed and produced by Andaç Haznedaroğlu, proves to be significant as the first of its kind; a feature length fiction film dealing wi...

Colour, like sound, has been an intrinsic part of films since the advent of cinema. Even in the early years, before the invention of colour film, filmmakers experimented with the ways to integrate colour into film such as tinting and laboursome hand colouring. Only after the 1950s, when colour film became an established and primary shooting materia...

Turkish society's perception of Germany has been going through a significant transformation. This is indisputably related with the crucial role Germany played by not taking sides with Turkey in its long-lasting attempts to access to the European Union. Through critical discourse analysis, this article explores how Turkish cinematic narratives have...

This article evaluates the film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz with specific reference to the Bakhtinian concept of “heteroglossia”. The term addresses “language [as] perceived [and] stratified through and through into multiple social discourses each representing a specific ideological belief system” (Morris, 2003: p. 73). The film i...

This article evaluates the film La Haine (1995) directed by Mathiew Kassovitz with specific reference to the Bakhtinian concept of “heteroglossia”. The film is still socially and politically significant and relevant especially in relation to the refugee crisis, the increasing xenophobia and islamophobia that continue burdening Europe today. The fil...

This article seeks to address one of the most problematic lacunae in Turkey’s political and academic landscape by examining the mediated images of the Roma people in Turkey. This long-neglected sub-cultural group in the Turkish context is mostly regarded as the “others” of society, who cannot speak for themselves. Their public imagination is, there...

The historical construction of the Roma image in Turkey, via both official and unofficial narratives, has constituted a derogatory repertoire. Their portrayal in the mainstream Turkish cinema and TV in particular has contributed to the predominant imaginary in circulation which essentially is based on common binaries and stereotypes. In order to ch...

Popular imagination of an age-old and very common phenomenon –migration– depends on the images and stories in circulation. A wide array of mediated images of migration, refugees and diasporas play an important role in ethnic and cultural identification processes. This article explores how Turkey has accounted for its own diasporic subjects through...

Various cultural objects, crafts and traditional production techniques from Turkey have been research subjects in the field of design studies in recent years. During this time, definitions of tradition, culture and craft have changed and, therefore, these changes need to be revisited, in particular relating to product design. This study explores th...

In a social environment where Turkish guest workers have been depicted as isolated, incapable victims who could not speak for themselves or for their people, German directors were the first to provide portrayals of immigrants in Germany. Then emerged the second generation of Turkish filmmakers who brought along a breakthrough for Turkish‐German cin...

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