The document summarizes several projects focused on community development and empowerment through design in Turkey. They include workshops to develop creative skills for residents of Sulukule to generate income; interventions to support female crafts practitioners in Mardin; efforts to connect designers with local manufacturers to upgrade lighting products in Şişhane; and research on community laundry services in İzmir to identify how the facilities could be improved through design.

1. 40 Days 40 Nights Sulukule A visibility project for an historical area under the threat of demolition and gentrification A project co-started by Sulukule Platform which is a group of activists including Aslı Kıyak İngin (an architect)

2. Context: A historical Romani neighborhood, a planned area of urban regeneration. Local population facing the threat of loosing their identity due to the destruction of community ties linking to the territory.

3. Project: Workshops to assist residents to develop creative skills for income generation and self-expression by using these skills (such as music, handcrafts, photography)

4. Design role: Increasing the visibility and the positive qualities of the neighbourhood More on: www.sulukulegunlugu.blogspot.com

5. Mardin Handcrafts Design interventions in local handcrafts Çiğdem Kaya PhD Research on Local Handcrafts in Mardin Kadın Emeğini Değerlendirme Vakfı (Foundation to Add Value to Women’s Labour) Istanbul Technical University Sheffield Hallam University

6. Context: Existing potential of female traditional handcrafts practitioners in Mardin, a historical town.

7. Project: Developing interventions by working together with the practitioners for their professional and personal development, breaking out from the limited local market.

8. Design role : Enablement of practitioners to make more creative and better crafted products. more on: www.cigdemkaya.net

9. Made in Şişhane A visibility project for a historical productive cluster at the centre of İstanbul A project started by the architect Aslı Kıyak İngin Contributor: Teike Asselbergs

10. Context: A district of lighting manufacturers in central Istanbul facing a number of threats

11. Project: Bringing designers together with local manufacturing units to come up with new lighting designs with increased design and marketing value.

12. Click on the icon below to insert one or more images showing the design role... What are the tools and process and how did it support the local project development? Design role: Upgrading the added value of products to maintain the long-term survival of Şişhane lighting manufacturers. More on: www.madeinsishane.blogspot.com

13. Community Laundry Services (a project initiated by a local government) A research has been carried out on the use of free laundry services in low-income neighborhoods in İzmir Can Uçkan Yüksel Master’s research on community laundry services in İzmir

14. Context: Community laundry as a free service provided by Bayraklı Municipality, İzmir.

15. Project: Identifying the motivations and barriers in using common laundry services provided by local governments

16. Design role: Pitfalls of the community laundry system have been identified by design research. The facilities can be further developed by addressing these problems with design solutions in the future.

17. Slowcity, Seferihisar Municipality of Seferihisar Cittaslow

18. Context: A small coastal town in the Aegean Region

19. Project: There are initiatives led by the local government and NGOs. There is no designer-led project yet (known by the authors). A potential area...

20. Design role: Increasing the visibility of the positive qualities of the area; the value added of the products produced in the area; linking the area to the global networks through the use of communication technologies. More on: www.cittaclowseferihisar.org

21. Kerkenes Eco-Center Project Demonstrating the uses of solar power by local people in a rural setting. Kerkenes Eco-Center Project Team: Güner Mutaf, Mehmet Ekmekci, Soofia Tahira Elias-Özkan, Otgonbayar Namkhai, Françoise Summers, Neşen S ü rmeli and RefikToksöz United Nations Development Program Middle East Technical University

22. Context: A village in the middle of Anatolia with high solar energy exposure

23. Project: Facilitating and promoting solar cooking in Şahmuratlı village (known as Kerkenes)

24. Design role : The designers designed a cooking and a vegetable drying unit with locally/easily available materials and production methods and taught how to use these units in their daily lives.

25. Hackers and Haute-Couture Heretics Otto von Busch HDK School of Design Garanti Galeri

26. Context: A location which provides high access and visibility in a big city (Garanti Galeri which is located on the busiest street - a cultural point of attraction )

27. Project: On-going workshops for four weeks with four subversive fashion designers who were invited to encourage and assist by-passers to join in the creative environment

28. More on: www.selfpassage.org Design role: To encourage and enable people to «make» items for themselves by giving a chance to try to make a fashion item