Fatma Korkut

Middle East Technical University | METU · Department of Industrial design

Some of the key challenges for STEM education in Turkey include the problems encountered by teachers when integrating diverse disciplines and technologies into STEM activities, the need for teachers to acquire the skills necessary to prepare and implement appropriate STEM activities for the educational level of their students and their school conte...

Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, vlogs, wikis, instant messaging and podcasts allow internet users to create, share and collaborate on content, and offer creative opportunities to use them for educational and research purposes. Video sharing platforms are one of the online environments that provide user-generated content (UGC). The rapid increase in th...

STEM eğitimi, disiplinlerarası iş birliği yaparak çeşitli derslerin harmanlamasını amaçlamaktadır. Türkiye’de öğretmenlere yönelik STEM eğitimlerine ve STEM eğitimi etkinliklerine bakıldığında bunların fen bilimleri, teknoloji ve matematik dışındaki branşlar için yeterli olmadığı gözlenmektedir. Bu durum, farklı branşlardan eğitimcilerin kendi aral...

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Welche Rolle spielt Design in gesellschaftlichen Transformationsprozessen? Können Zukünfte und soziale Wirklichkeiten nachhaltig gestaltet werden - oder handelt es sich bei den Wirkungen gestalterischer Eingriffe um mehr oder weniger zufällige Reaktionen eigensinnig evolvierender sozialer Systeme auf gut gemeinte Interventionen? Wie wäre das »Besse...

As product-centered design left its place to user-centered design, user experience has come to the forefront. Starting with the early 2000s, studies on improving user experience have gained importance and become an important focus for design fields. In user experience, it is important to consider the product, the use environment, and the services t...

Mobilya tasarımları, fikir ve sanat eserleri sahiplerinin hakları, patent, tasarım, marka ve haksız rekabet gibi birçok fikri mülkiyet koruma türüne konu olurlar. Üç boyutlu marka koruması, marka hukukunda gelişen bir alan olmasına ve dikkate değer ekonomik etkisine rağmen fikri mülkiyet ve tasarım alanyazınında yeterince irdelenmemiştir. Bu çalışm...

Üç boyutlu markalar, marka ve tasarım arasındaki sınır hattında yer alır. Mercedes-Benz marka araçların üç köşeli yıldız amblemi, Toblerone çikolatasının üçgen prizma şekli, Clipper çakmağının yuvarlatılmış gövde şekli ve Coca-Cola şişesinin kapanan etek şeklindeki hatları, ticari başarıya ulaşmış ikonik tasarımlarıyla üç boyutlu markaların ilk akl...

Kullanıcı olarak çocuklar ve onlar için ürün tasarlayan yetişkinler olarak tasarımcılar, dünyayı farklı biçimlerde deneyimlemenin yanı sıra farklı entelektüel niteliklere sahiptirler. Bu nedenle, çocukların tasarım sürecine katılımcı olarak davet edilmesi, bu özel kullanıcı grubu hakkında bir anlayış geliştirmek açısından önem taşır. Bu çalışma, en...

This paper explores co-designing with children in the context of undergraduate industrial design education, and investigates the potential of performative and narrative-based design methods in co-designing with children. It addresses the early phases of design process and proposes a co-design method for supporting industrial design students' elicit...

In an educational context, one of the design project considerations tutors take into account is the familiarity of design students with the target user group and use environment. For encouraging them to cultivate empathy in diverse human experiences, tutors make students engage in projects involving user groups who are not familiar to them. During...

When working on familiar problem domains, designers can rely on their past experience and knowledge. Unfamiliar problem domains, on the other hand, may require guided access to users and the use environment. In design education, faced with an unfamiliar problem domain, design students as novice designers usually conduct exploratory design research...

In response to the changing face of design professions, there is a growing need of integrating participatory practices into design curricula to equip students with the required competences. We have been running participatory scenario building projects since 2010 as part of the 3rd year studio at the Industrial Design program at our university. This...

Collaboration with external partners constitutes an important aspect of project-based learning tradition in undergraduate industrial design studio education. Collaboration with industrial partners, in particular, involves complex issues ranging from sustaining long-term and mutually beneficial partnerships to not being hampered by intellectual prop...

Web-based collective design platforms are virtual environments which highly rely on large-scale participation of people from diverse backgrounds in different phases of the design process. Understanding and motivating participants is important to enhance the diversity of solutions and approaches in such platforms. This study investigates the motivat...

This paper focuses on the means of integrating emotionally rich associations into the idea generation phase of the design process. Matrix, a generative and evolving design tool developed at METU Department of Industrial Design has been further explored as an emotionally rich idea generation tool in an educational context. The revised exercise has d...

This is a conference paper. This paper discusses the results of a survey conducted in Turkey to collect data on industrial design graduates' profile and employment history, and to investigate the correspondence between education and practice through a comparative study of the practitioners' and managers' views on industrial design practice. The fin...