Cihangir Istek- Ph.D. Arch.
- Visiting Professor at Osaka University
Cihangir Istek
- Ph.D. Arch.
- Visiting Professor at Osaka University
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Introduction
Cihangir Istek focuses on UX in Built-Environments and Design Pedagogies. His work integrates research, education, and practical design projects. He has been involved in innovative design curricula, such as developing the Mura: A Practice-Based Design Curriculum for Future Creation in Rural Japan, which blends architecture and community-centered design. His research also explores how design can be influenced by emotional and cultural responses, merging traditional and contemporary methodologies.
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Based on the Japanese notion of ‘Kansei’, this research explores two sets of interrelated
questions: 1) What are the ways in which the anticipated user experience, namely the
emotional responses of target users, deliberately influence the design decision-making
process? 2) How can Kansei help designers to predict these responses more precisely, and...
Prior to this article, the authors discussed the possibility of fusing the Japanese philosophy of Kansei with the Western idea of the design process, and endeavored to set out an extended model, namely the “Emotional Response Sensitive Design Process” model, that might positively influence designers’ future decision-making process (McIlhargey & Ist...
In this paper, we use the question "what is the true nature of traditional street networks in Turkish cities?" to test different quantitative methods of urban morphological analysis. Traditional Turkish street networks are characterized by discriminant functions of several space-syntax-related indices, as well as by image-analysis and graph-theoret...
Discourse is often considered as a taken-for-granted notion, however, it is already a representational genre of design thinking whether written/ unwritten, spoken/unspoken, designed/ undesigned, realised/unrealised. This article explores current architectural discourse to understand its relations with the design thinking transmitted through various...
Marketplaces are a common topic in literature. However, the questions with their spatial theories have been often subject to the discussions at a level of more abstract concepts or socio-economic factors rather than their actual layouts. This common tendency seems to engender some considerable problems in our theoretical understanding of marketplac...
Demonstrating the importance of Mura (a synonym for village or hamlet, also countryside, in Japanese) as a prototype for off-urban agglomerations and a place for design practice, this chapter presents a co-design studio practice as case studies that might contribute to community efforts for the future creation in Nose Town–a Satoyama (Japanese term...
Following a review of previous research on what has been termed “Japanese social behavior,” this article aims to explore which views are closer to reality through case studies that examine the interplay between visitors’ micro-behavioral patterns and their spatial characteristics in a specific and dense social environment, namely the art museum in...
This documentation illustrates the process of our work, summarizes the result of our research, reviews the many presentations of invited experts, and provides a references to resources we found inspiring and helpful.
This book was awarded ‘the World Book of the Year 2006’ by the Islamic Republic of Iran*
In this paper, we use the question "What is the true nature of traditional street networks in Turkish cities" to test different quantitative methods of urban morphological analysis.
Traditional Turkish street networks are characterized by discriminant functions of several spatial-syntax-related indices as well as by image-analytical and graph-theo...
