During the recent protest rallies (in Gezi Park, Wall Street, and elsewhere) sound assumed a majo... more During the recent protest rallies (in Gezi Park, Wall Street, and elsewhere) sound assumed a major role by creating unique soundscapes, not only in the squares where the demonstrations took place, but also in neighborhoods. The objects that are supposed to be kept at home, such as pots and pans or whistles, revolted and flowed out onto the streets to join car horns and slogans. One way to learn from these objects is to see them in terms of “abstractions”, to borrow a term from phonography. The sounds of these objects are “abstracted” from their normal uses in the private sphere and appropriated into the public sphere to provide a basis where they challenged the dominant soundscape and the web of meanings. The aim of this paper is to look at product sound from a new novel perspective, underlining its social and political uses as part of design activism. For this purpose, examples are given from the Gezi and Occupy protests, interviews are conducted with people who closely followed the Gezi protests, and the concept of “abstraction” is elaborated as a key term that makes it possible to talk about appropriations of products as noise making devices in protests.
Idle time and practices of it are a neglected area in design literature. While work and leisure a... more Idle time and practices of it are a neglected area in design literature. While work and leisure activities are shaped by laws and political regulations, idle time does not constitute generally accepted practices. However, idle time activities can offer individuals flexibility in their experiences in modern urban life. On the other hand, it also generates times such as waiting moments and traveling time in between everyday activities. In these moments, individuals use their own creativity by the help of “mobile interfaces” to organize their involvement in social relations in unique ways. The purpose of this thesis is to explore idle time activities to develop an understanding about how individuals use idle time to experience their social lives in both physical and virtual environments by using mobile interfaces.
The literature review of this study focuses on foundational concepts on everyday life, psychogeography and symbolic interaction, by taking mobile interfaces and travel into consideration in public idle times. For this purpose, observations in three different public settings are made. Following that, cultural probe research is conducted to explore what individuals take with them and what they observe in idle time. After cultural probes, I conducted interviews with participants to have a detailed information about what they had filled on the cards.
The thesis concludes with findings and insights on public idle time activities and their interpretations with regard to social, incidental, symbolic and ubiquitous interactions. Briefly, public idle time is framed as active social time in which individuals encounter chance moments and they use their personal creativities to experience pleasant public idle time.
Keywords: idle time, symbolic interaction, mobile interfaces, travel time
During the recent protest rallies (in Gezi Park, Wall Street, and elsewhere) sound assumed a majo... more During the recent protest rallies (in Gezi Park, Wall Street, and elsewhere) sound assumed a major role by creating unique soundscapes, not only in the squares where the demonstrations took place, but also in neighborhoods. The objects that are supposed to be kept at home, such as pots and pans or whistles, revolted and flowed out onto the streets to join car horns and slogans. One way to learn from these objects is to see them in terms of “abstractions”, to borrow a term from phonography. The sounds of these objects are “abstracted” from their normal uses in the private sphere and appropriated into the public sphere to provide a basis where they challenged the dominant soundscape and the web of meanings. The aim of this paper is to look at product sound from a new novel perspective, underlining its social and political uses as part of design activism. For this purpose, examples are given from the Gezi and Occupy protests, interviews are conducted with people who closely followed the Gezi protests, and the concept of “abstraction” is elaborated as a key term that makes it possible to talk about appropriations of products as noise making devices in protests.
Idle time and practices of it are a neglected area in design literature. While work and leisure a... more Idle time and practices of it are a neglected area in design literature. While work and leisure activities are shaped by laws and political regulations, idle time does not constitute generally accepted practices. However, idle time activities can offer individuals flexibility in their experiences in modern urban life. On the other hand, it also generates times such as waiting moments and traveling time in between everyday activities. In these moments, individuals use their own creativity by the help of “mobile interfaces” to organize their involvement in social relations in unique ways. The purpose of this thesis is to explore idle time activities to develop an understanding about how individuals use idle time to experience their social lives in both physical and virtual environments by using mobile interfaces.
The literature review of this study focuses on foundational concepts on everyday life, psychogeography and symbolic interaction, by taking mobile interfaces and travel into consideration in public idle times. For this purpose, observations in three different public settings are made. Following that, cultural probe research is conducted to explore what individuals take with them and what they observe in idle time. After cultural probes, I conducted interviews with participants to have a detailed information about what they had filled on the cards.
The thesis concludes with findings and insights on public idle time activities and their interpretations with regard to social, incidental, symbolic and ubiquitous interactions. Briefly, public idle time is framed as active social time in which individuals encounter chance moments and they use their personal creativities to experience pleasant public idle time.
Keywords: idle time, symbolic interaction, mobile interfaces, travel time
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The literature review of this study focuses on foundational concepts on everyday life, psychogeography and symbolic interaction, by taking mobile interfaces and travel into
consideration in public idle times. For this purpose, observations in three different public settings are made. Following that, cultural probe research is conducted to explore what individuals take with them and what they observe in idle time. After cultural probes, I conducted interviews with participants to have a detailed information about what they had filled on the cards.
The thesis concludes with findings and insights on public idle time activities and their interpretations with regard to social, incidental, symbolic and ubiquitous interactions. Briefly, public idle time is framed as active social time in which individuals encounter chance moments and they use their personal creativities to experience pleasant public idle time.
Keywords: idle time, symbolic interaction, mobile interfaces, travel time
The literature review of this study focuses on foundational concepts on everyday life, psychogeography and symbolic interaction, by taking mobile interfaces and travel into
consideration in public idle times. For this purpose, observations in three different public settings are made. Following that, cultural probe research is conducted to explore what individuals take with them and what they observe in idle time. After cultural probes, I conducted interviews with participants to have a detailed information about what they had filled on the cards.
The thesis concludes with findings and insights on public idle time activities and their interpretations with regard to social, incidental, symbolic and ubiquitous interactions. Briefly, public idle time is framed as active social time in which individuals encounter chance moments and they use their personal creativities to experience pleasant public idle time.
Keywords: idle time, symbolic interaction, mobile interfaces, travel time