This document discusses design policy in Turkey, including the government's historical lack of involvement in design leading to industrialization without design. It notes how designers have recently taken on more of a role in design policymaking and promoting design. It questions what has been achieved so far by design policies in Turkey and discusses challenges like dealing with power relations and conflicts of interest when making design policies.

1. Alpay Er
Ozyegin University / Istanbul Institute of Design
WDC2014, Cape Town, October 2014

2. Policy

3. Government Involvement

4. Market Failure

5. Design Policy

6. Government intervention in Design

7. Political Economy of Design

8. Stakeholders in Design Policies
or
Power Politics of Design

9. Design Policy in Turkey

10. Political Economy of Design Policy
Making in Turkey

11. Industrialisation without design!

12. Designers as “Design Policy Makers”

13. Design Promotion by Designers

14. Rise of a New Business Class

15. The 2001 Crisis:
Political Economy of Turkey redefined

16. The Rise of Design in the Turkish
Businesss and Goverment Circles

17. The Alliance of Design with the
New Industrial Bourgeoisie

18. What have been achived so far?

19. Conflicts of Interests in Design
Policy Making

20. Challenges for the Turkish Design
Community - How to deal with the power
relations in Design Policy making?

21. Thank You!
alpay.er@ozyegin.edu.tr