Koray Gelmez

Koray Gelmez
Istanbul Technical University · Department of Industrial Design

PhD

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February 2018 - March 2023
Istanbul Technical University
Position
  • Professor (Assistant)
January 2009 - March 2017
Istanbul Technical University
Position
  • Research Assistant
Education
February 2011 - October 2016
Istanbul Technical University
Field of study
  • Industrial Design
September 2008 - February 2011
Istanbul Technical University
Field of study
  • Industrial Design
September 2003 - June 2008
Middle East Technical University
Field of study
  • Industrial Design

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Publications (39)
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This research aims to develop an in-depth understanding of empathic perspective-taking in design teaching. A pedagogical probe study was utilised to obtain design teachers’ insights into adopting allocentric views by taking the perspectives of design students, users, and materials during design conversations. This participatory research study enabl...
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This paper aims to interrogate the design studio conversations between teachers and students in order to explore the indicators regarding empathy. To investigate design conversations occurring between design teachers and design students, participant observation studies were conducted at two universities in Finland and Turkey. As an empathic indicat...
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Peer critiques play a major role in the design learning process. However, due to vague boundaries and definitions of them, it is hard and yet significant to model peer critiques in the context of design education. This article aims to gain a greater understanding about dynamics, motivations and contents of peer critiques. As a result, a framework t...
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In the field of design, empathy, which is often addressed in design research and practice, has also become an essential aspect of design education. It is both one of the core components of learning processes and a foundation for teaching activities. This paper aims to explore and discuss the impacts of empathy on learning and teaching in the releva...
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Within the scope of studies aimed at detecting and reducing earthquake risks, the most important measures to be taken are the correct placement, to construct earthquake resistant structures and retrofit the existing buildings. Subsequently, the risks can be reduced by the measures taken in the interior spaces of the buildings. This paper present...
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The complex and multi-layered phenomenon of empathy has its roots in design research and design practice, and so has indirect and dispersed connections to design education. Moreover, the ill-defined nature of design increases the complexity level while handling empathy in design education. Based on the scoping literature review, this study maps emp...
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Inevitably, the global pandemic that occurred in 2020 had a significant impact on the practices of design education, and apparently, design teachers were not fully prepared and equipped. In this ambivalent and emergent era, they struggled to adapt their current teaching methods to online education. Since then, various teaching methods have been dev...
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Today, it is known that formal education models alone are not sufficient for the complexity of design education. Thus, these models should be supported by informal methods. In contemporary architectural education, the formal structure is supported by various informal education tools such as competitions, workshops, and panels. However, although it...
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Evaluating a design studio course is a complex issue due to its practice-based, rich, and vague nature. This is an attempt to uncover this complex issue from students’ viewpoints as they are the owners of learning processes. Based on a student evaluation template, we particularly focused on nine dimensions of a design studio course, which are broad...
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Supporting staff, as research and teaching assistants, in higher education carries significant pedagogical responsibility, especially in practice-based domains. In this respect, understanding the pedagogical roles of these participants of design studio courses is particularly critical. This study aims to investigate the research assistants’ pedagog...
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As the literature points out the lack of efficient use of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) in design curricula, we aimed to align a CAD course based on student-centered learning theories. While designating a constructively aligned CAD course, the intended learning outcomes were specified in relation to the knowledge types classified for the CAD learning...
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In pursuit of constructivist learning, design education can benefit from various methods, tools and applications that directly influence learners’ design processes. In this sense, writing has become prominent as a learning and teaching tool with the attention of both design teachers and design researchers. However, there is no particular study addr...
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This paper investigates the relationship between design and play by referring to play taxonomy of Caillois. French writer and philosopher Roger Caillois (2001) frames play quite systematically by classifying it into four categories according to the most dominant characteristics; agôn (competitive), alea (chance-based), mimicry (make-believe) and il...
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This study investigates informal peer-critique, mainly focusing on the mechanisms of the process and the varying platforms that design students utilize. It aims at providing a preliminary understanding of the peer-critiquing process by highlighting various aspects during its execution. To achieve this, an empirical study was conducted that consiste...
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The teaching and learning design is grounded on the studio education. The pedagogical dynamics of design studio education is also related to the social learning theories stemming from the dialogue between the interaction of teachers and students. When we deep dive into these participants, we can come across the supporting staff taking part in the d...
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It is difficult, but crucial, to understand the roles of design studio teachers to facilitate the learning processes and improve the teaching approaches. In this respect, the roles of design studio teachers in design education literature are seen rather dispersed. In this study, an integrative literature review of studies was conducted by examining...
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Participants of a design studio regardless of the titles and responsibilities apparently influence both teaching and learning processes. Even though it is possible to find several studies focusing on design teachers and design students, scholars have been silent to investigate the teaching activities of research/teaching assistants in a design stud...
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Affection in learning embraces emotions, attitudes, values and beliefs that emerge during the learning process, and it is a vital and hidden element of learning. Studies focusing on affective, or emotional, aspects of design learning in the context of design education underscore the significance of the affective process and inform us of the connect...
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This longitudinal study is based on the reflective writing activities of students on the Basic Design I course in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU). Besides the cognitive, metacognitive and affective influence of reflective writing on design learning, this study is an attempt to seek answers to how d...
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This study is an attempt to propose a taxonomy of design learning based on students’ structured reflective diaries. 50 students enrolling Basic Design I in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) participated to the empirical part, based on The Revised Taxonomy adapted from Bloom’s Taxonomy, which aims to...
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Reflective writing is an efficient way of getting feedback from students. Paper-based or web-based course evaluation questionnaires alone may lack of collecting specific and detailed information, especially for the fields like design education. This study focuses on reflections captured from students via two different media – personal magazine and...
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Design education is an open platform where new approaches can be implemented due to the experimental nature of design. This paper includes two separate projects whose common ideas are experimentalism and up-to-dateness. They were conducted in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University. Each section covers one proje...
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Reflective writing is an efficient way of getting feedback from students. Paper-based or web-based course evaluation questionnaires alone may lack of collecting specific and detailed information, especially for the fields like design education. This study focuses on reflections captured from students via two different media – personal magazine and...
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Yükseköğretim kurumlarında akademik ve idari süreçlerin iyileştirilmesini hedefleyen akademik değerlendirme ve kalite geliştirme (ADEK), iç kontrol, akreditasyon ve toplam kalite yönetimi gibi yaklaşımların kaynak-etkin, katılımcı ve eşgüdüm içinde yürütülmesini sağlayacak stratejik bir yönetim yaklaşımı benimsenmelidir. Bilgi ve iletişim teknoloji...
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Bilgi ve iletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler yükseköğretim kurumlarındaki akademik ve idari süreçlerin sistematik ve stratejik yaklaşımlarla yeniden yapılandırılmasını gerektirmektir. Bu bağlamda, çağdaş yönetim yaklaşımlarını yükseköğretim sistemine uygulama çabaları göze çarpmaktadır. Toplam Kalite Yönetimi (TKY) uygulamaları, Maliye Bakanlığı...
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Reflective writing is an efficient way of getting feedback from students. Paper-based or web-based course evaluation questionnaires alone may lack of collecting specific and detailed information, especially for the fields like design education. This study focuses on reflections captured from students via two different media –personal magazine and o...
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This study focuses on a specific Basic Design exercise, which has been conducted for four following semesters in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey in 2010-2011. In this exercise, students were expected to design a Jury Invitation (card) collectively specialized for the specific semester. The...
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In this research, we worked with a group of women community of practice (Wenger, 1998) who prepare fresh tomato preserve for their own consumption in Salihli, Turkey. Our aim was to assist them to develop their products (bottled fresh tomatoes) because they wanted to sell these products in the contemporary markets. This research is based on previou...
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This study is about developing novel ideas for packaging and branding of locally bottled tomatoes, which is a traditional food preparation craft of women in western Turkey. In this region preparing fresh tomato preserve for private consumption is an annual and seasonal practice made in summer as a preparation for winter. One of the towns famous for...
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This study focuses on a brand new type of user research as a part of a design project conducted in 2012 Summer School Project Studio in the Department of Industrial Product Design at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Turkey. Students are required to get information from an open Facebook profile by concentrating on its demographics (age, gender,...
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Habits shape one's response towards a certain impact. More specifically, they influence the way of interaction between product and user. This paper proposes a theoretical understanding by establishing link between habitual behaviors and the user-product interaction. In the context of this paper, mobility, which is a hot topic in today's societies,...
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As very well known, Basic Design is an introductory course offered in the first year of the curriculum in art and design education. As a course basically focusing on visual perception, principles of basic structures, form-function relationship, color theory and composition, it is an open ground for different approaches in introducing the color theo...
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To broaden, extend alter the use of certain products towards unintended purposes is possible through social practice. This may occur due to users’ experiences, cumulative knowledge or cultural rituals. This study deals with the transfer and use of social practice in a local context where a Turkish local community in Aegean Region is examined. In th...

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