Browsing by Author "Mengi, Onur"

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Creative Placemaking Revisited: Exploring Major Drivers for the Practice of Making and Co-Creation
(Inderscience Publishers, 2020) Mengi, Onur
Designing for Social Innovation: Apps as a Tool for CoCreation
(Pensoft Publishers - 10th World Summit: Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Congress (CAUSummit 2025), 2025-10-17) Ercan, İrem; Kan, Didem; Mengi, Onur
A shared understanding of active participation of many urban actors is necessary for a socially sustainable urban environment. This study explores how various urban stakeholders including government agencies, city collectives, citizens, academic institutions, and businesses co-create by leveraging their unique skills and exchanging work and knowledge via an online platform in order to foster social innovation at urban scale. The present research hypothesizes that establishing a participatory mobile application enabling city inhabitants to actively engage and assume shared responsibilities in urban processes can strengthen the sense of belonging of citizens. The design research methodology employed in this study is rooted in the context of co-creation and participatory design. The study is structured around the hypothetical development of the Give a Hand mobile application, a participatory platform designed to make education, health, culture, and art services more accessible for everyone. By enabling participation and co-creation among city inhabitants, the platform aims to optimize public service delivery, saving both time and resources as well as to achieve more inclusive urban environments. More importantly, this platform facilitates urban value creation through mechanisms of volunteering and donations, contributing to the enhancement of the public services. This conceptual framework also helps us understand how designers serve as social innovation facilitators by developing community-driven, inclusive platforms for public service delivery and engagement. The practical implications of this study provides a sustainable network, fostering a stronger sense of belonging among the citizens. By incorporating social networking features, the app facilitates communication, collaboration, and the creation of new community networks, thereby enhancing active participation and contributing to the overall social fabric of the city. The results show that digital platforms can serve as scalable instruments for participatory governance when they are created using the concepts of social innovation and co-creation. The conceptual mobile app provides a flexible and transparent framework for cooperation between corporations, colleges, citizens, and public agencies
Evidence-Based Interior Analysis Model: An ICT-Based Methodological Framework for Analyzing Spatial Behavior in Interior Environments
(Sage Publications Inc, 2025) Abraham, Selin Aktan; Deniz, Deniz; Mengi, Onur
Despite the increasing availability of digital tools for analyzing spatial behavior in interior environments, interior design studies often rely on conventional methods that do not fully integrate both objective and subjective insights, thereby limiting a comprehensive understanding of how users interact with space. This article proposes the Evidence-Based Interior Analysis (EBIA) model, an original methodological framework specifically designed for public-use interiors. The model offers a unique integration of Indoor Positioning Systems with user perception surveys within a unified structure. This integration enables the capture of both behavioral patterns and experiential feedback, facilitating their joint analysis for interior design decisions. The model is grounded in three foundational pillars: Spatial behavior studies, evidence-based design, and information and communication technologies. Rather than reporting a specific case study, the article outlines the conceptual and methodological formulation of the EBIA model. It proposes a dynamic, iterative approach that challenges conventional linear design processes and facilitates the development of responsive, user-centered, and sustainable interior environments by aligning spatial configurations with user behavior and long-term functionality. Scalable and applicable across diverse spatial contexts, the EBIA model addresses a critical methodological gap by bridging data-driven analysis with behavior-informed spatial design.