Material Semiotics of Form Giving: The Case of the Electric Turkish Coffee Pot

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2016-03-01

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Kaygan, Harun

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The article discusses material semiotics as a valuable framework for the analysis of design processes, and focuses on form giving practices. For this purpose, the design processes of electric Turkish coffee pots are studied through interviews and document analyses. It is argued that neither form giving nor product form can be considered to be singular or stable throughout a design process, and that semantic and material relations that are built and maintained around the product form need to be traced for a fuller understanding.

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Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47215

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DESIGN ISSUES

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https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00384

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Department of Industrial Design, Article

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H. Kaygan, “Material Semiotics of Form Giving: The Case of the Electric Turkish Coffee Pot,” DESIGN ISSUES, pp. 78–90, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/47215.