Design for Promoting Pro-environmental Behaviours of the Georgian Domestic Workers in Ankara

Creative Commons License

Kaplan A., Yazirlıoğlu L.

Design Culture(s) Cumulus Conference, Rome, İtalya, 8 - 11 Haziran 2021, cilt.2, ss.2786-2799, (Tam Metin Bildiri)

  • Yayın Türü: Bildiri / Tam Metin Bildiri
  • Cilt numarası: 2
  • Basıldığı Şehir: Rome
  • Basıldığı Ülke: İtalya
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2786-2799
  • Açık Arşiv Koleksiyonu: AVESİS Açık Erişim Koleksiyonu
  • Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

In this study, we worked with Georgians coming to Ankara, Turkey as live-in domestic workers whose work and private life was tangled. There are many layers to investigate in this case, like the adaptation process to the new culture and country. Another layer is the transfer of knowledge and behaviours between home and migrated country. The design proposal we made with Plentifulness Cards aims to ease the knowledge sharing process and strengthen the relations between immigrant domestic workers so that the pro-environmental behaviours would be encouraged and spillovered from the private domain to the work domain. Narrating on this research through design project, the article demonstrates how boundaries between places, roles, and cultures can be reawakened and reshaped with the help of designed artefacts.