Pınar Kaygan

E-mail

pkaygan@metu.edu.tr

Department

Department of Industrial Design

ORCID

0000-0002-1941-2668

Scopus Author ID

55976746700

Gendered Interactions Mediated by Design: Sexual Harassment on Public Transport Kaygan, Pınar; Kaygan, Harun; oezguer Keysan, Asuman (2022-11-01) This paper explores the gendered interactions that are mediated by designed products in actual use contexts. Our case is vehicle design for public transportation, a product category that is, from the outset, relatively gen...
From forming to performing: team development for enhancing interdisciplinary collaboration between design and engineering students using design thinking Kaygan, Pınar (2022-09-01) This article aims to expand our knowledge on interdisciplinary design education by focusing on team development, which has remained a less explored aspect of interdisciplinary collaboration so far. An interdisciplinary des...
Change in Industrial Designers' Jobs: The Case of Turkey, 1984-2018 Kaygan, Pınar; Ougur, Isil (Informa UK Limited, 2020-08-01) This paper examines the change in the forms of employment of industrial designers between 1984 and 2018 in Turkey. The empirical data come from the graduates of the four oldest industrial design departments in the country....
Industrial design students’ reflections on cross-institutional and distance collaboration Kaygan, Pınar; Dilek, İrem; Kaygan, Harun (2019-10-12) As an inevitable outcome of the increasing globalization of design and manufacturing of new products, distributed design teams bring new opportunities and challenges for creative engagements. In recent studies, there is ...
DESIGN FOR THE WELL-BEING OF DOMESTIC ANIMALS: IMPLEMENTATION OF A THREE-STAGE USER RESEARCH MODEL Kaygan, Pınar; Töre Yargın, Gülşen (2019-10-01) This paper presents how we, as design educators, integrated user-centeredness into a design studio course project that is concerned with improving well-being of domestic cats and dogs. Since the primary users of the projec...
Authority over One’s Work: Perspectives of Industrial Designers in Entrepreneurial Careers Dilek, İrem; Aysel, Kardelen; Kaygan, Pınar; Ay, Utku; Yanpar, Zeliha Didem (2019-5-04)
A pen that 'looks like a CEO in a business suit': gendering the fountain pen Kaygan, Harun; Kaygan, Pınar (2019-01-02) This article investigates the gendering of the fountain pen as a product category mainly used in the office environment. It draws on hobbyists' accounts and evaluations of fountain pen use from online forums. The accounts ...
THE DESIGN OF THE DESIGN BRIEF: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN, JAPANESE AND TURKISH STUDENTS Branda, Nicele; Silveira, Leandro; Van der Linden, Julio; Bohemia, Erik; Kaygan, Pınar (2019-01-01) This study addresses the strategies used by students participants of the 2018 edition of the Global Studio, a cross-institutional project, to develop a design brief. In the Global Studio students from different universitie...
Designing in a cross-cultural context : an analysis of Brazilian, Italian, Japanese and Turkish students' design methods Nichetti, Claudia; Bertoletti, Roberta; Van der Linden, Julio; Bohemia, Erik; Kaygan, Pınar; Bernardes, Mauricio (2019-01-01) The objective of this article is to analyse the relationship between the use of methods and processes used in the local mobility projects of Global Studio 2018. The Global Studio is an annual project that promotes the exch...
DRAWING TECHNIQUES ON THE DESIGN CONCEPT PHASE: AN ANALYSIS OF BRAZILIAN, JAPANESE AND TURKISH STUDENTS' STRATEGIES Torrezzan, Cristina; Van der Linden, Julio; Bohemia, Erik; Kaygan, Pınar; Bernardes, Mauricio (2019-01-01) Professionals such as product designers, architects, and engineers have an intrinsic relationship with drawing, using it to represent everything from the creative sketches of a proposal to its production. In this sense, te...

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