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Papers by Fehmi Dogan
Blucher Design Proceedings, Dec 1, 2021
The paper reports key instances from our field observations involving computational design practi... more The paper reports key instances from our field observations involving computational design practices to understand the process of generating and assessing alternative design options. Following an ethnographic approach, we investigate the nature of interactions within the team, which we conceptualize as a distributed cognitive system. We have observed a persistent effort-mostly driven by team leaders-to make the design idea-and design process in general-more legible and transparent for individuals within the team as well as others including clients and consultants. Through situated observations of collaborative computational practices, we investigate how design ideas are represented and externalized in a distributed cognitive system with the intention of achieving a legible schema to guide the design process. We report our interpretations concerning the concept of legibility and its various dimensions which predominantly relate to the need to clarify and justify the core design drivers and approaches in form-finding.
Ds 70 Proceedings of Design 2012 the 12th International Design Conference Dubrovnik Croatia, 2012
eCAADe proceedings, 2022
This study reports cases involving computational practices in architectural design to understand ... more This study reports cases involving computational practices in architectural design to understand how a distributed cognitive system supports multidisciplinary collaboration in design teams. In particular, we look into the role of coding languages in collaborative practices within interdisciplinary design teams. By providing an analysis on the distributed nature of the design process, this research aims to explain collaboration involving team participants with different skills in representation.
Blucher Design Proceedings, 2021
This study explores the integration of biomimicry into design processes by providing a closer loo... more This study explores the integration of biomimicry into design processes by providing a closer look at architectural practice and research and proposes a categorization of bio-inspired paradigms. Noticeable clusters within biomimetic approaches in architecture that share common principles are investigated throughout the research via a series of built examples that are considered to have biological phenomena as inspiration sources. Bio-inspired design processes are investigated via a categorization to detect the depth of analogical transfer and multiplicity. The paper sets out to present the issues concerning the analogical distance, multiplicity of approaches, and the decrease in the gap between nature and human-made phenomena.
Insider Knowledge - Proceedings of the Design Research Society Learn X Design Conference, 2019, 2019
This study explores the relationship between interactive imagery and shared mental models in a de... more This study explores the relationship between interactive imagery and shared mental models in a design learning environment. The study focuses on design, design learning, and the cognitive components of design. In this research, conceptual project development processes of third year architecture students, in a design studio where four instructors gave desk critiques on a rotational basis, are examined. Within the scope of the study, interviews were conducted with four students and four studio instructors. The process was analysed and interpreted based on the collected data and interviews. It is argued that interactive imagery and shared mental models, which are shaped in the studio's desk critiques, juries and panel reviews, affect students' conceptual project development. It is possible to conclude that if there is more than one studio instructor giving desk critiques on a rotational basis, students may have both advantages and disadvantages.
Design Computing and Cognition’20, 2022
Design Computing and Cognition’20
Blucher Design Proceedings, 2021
Computer vision (CV), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL)... more Computer vision (CV), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) applications, which are among the rapidly emerging and growing technologies, have the potential to be effectively used in the fields of architecture and construction. These applications are used not only in the field of architectural design development and construction site tracking but also to analyze and predict the architectural properties of existing buildings and heritage classification. This paper aims to classify and analyze the façades of Bodrum houses by using deep learning models, comprehensive relational database (RDB), and artificial neural network based clustering methods. Through the use of the above-mentioned methods, we managed to cluster Bodrum houses' façade attributes in five groups and testing image classification models in three different classifiers.
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 2018
This study investigates the use of similarities in the form of analogy, metaphor, and simile by s... more This study investigates the use of similarities in the form of analogy, metaphor, and simile by students and reviewers in an undergraduate architectural design review. In contrast to studies conducted in vitro settings, this study emphasizes the importance of studying analogies, metaphors, and similes in a natural setting. All similarity relationships were coded according to their type, the level of expertise, range, frequency, goal, value judgment, and depth. The results indicate that analogies, metaphors, and similes were used spontaneously and without any difficulty by both reviewers and students. Reviewers, however, were almost twice as likely to evoke similarities. Metaphor was the most frequently used similarity relationship among the three. It was found that there was a significant relationship between the level of expertise and type of similarity, with students more likely to use analogies and less likely to use similes. It was also found that goal is the most important fact...
PsyCh journal, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensor... more The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensory inputs have an impact on the way-finding strategies of blind people and to identify these impacts, where applicable. We specifically investigated how blind people use their senses to compensate for the lack of visual information and how the priority of senses changes according to the urban context. The participants of the study consisted of nine congenitally blind individuals and the study took place in two urban settings: a dense urban district, Kemeralti district in İzmir; and an urban park, the İzmir Fair Park. During the learning phase, a first trial along the selected routes was conducted for each participant individually along with one of the researchers. In the test phase, the participants were requested to re-walk the route and verbally report the environmental cues they attended to. The participants' verbal reports were recorded and transcripts of the recordings were coded...
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Design Studies, 2013
This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth year ... more This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth year students and expert architects. Participants took part in an experiment consisting of four tasks: rating source examples, selecting a source domain, explaining their selection, and designing a bus stop. The results indicate significant differences among participants with respect to their soundness ratings. The results also show significant relation between level of expertise and participants' selection of source categories, the stated reasons for their selection, and the type of similarity they established between source and target. We conclude that experts preferred 'mental hops' while first year students preferred 'mental leaps.' Second and fourth year students preferred neither 'mental leaps' nor 'mental hops' but to literally copy the sources.
Design and Technology Education an International Journal, Oct 31, 2012
Studies in cognition In many studies of well-defined problems, diagrammatic representations illus... more Studies in cognition In many studies of well-defined problems, diagrammatic representations illustrate either causal or temporal relationships between parts of entities and phenomena that the diagram represents. In architecture, diagrams are used to represent causal relationships, such as with orientation diagrams, or temporal relationships, such as with circulation diagrams. There is, however, another kind of diagram that is used to represent the main idea or the core of a design. We call these diagrams conceptual diagrams. They differ, potentially, from other diagrammatic representations studied thus far in that they represent an abstract conceptualization of a potential problem solution. Diagrams in other fields can be interpreted as conceptual diagrams as well, such as a diagram that shows the electron orbiting around a nucleus in atomic physics, or the supply-demand diagram in economics. In the domain of scientific discovery, Nersessian Conceptual diagrams are abstract represen...
This study presents the results of cognitive-historical analysis (Nersessian, 1995) of two case s... more This study presents the results of cognitive-historical analysis (Nersessian, 1995) of two case studies from architectural practice: the First Unitarian Church of Rochester by Louis I. Kahn and the New Staatsgalerie by Stirling and Wilford Associates. The investigations trace the evolution of the cognitive system in each case through studying sketches and focusing on one particular kind of external representation: the conceptual diagrams. representation that embeds a conceptualization of a design situation (Dogan & Nersessian, 2002). These diagrams are concise, yet powerful in that they provide high-level commitments constraining potential solutions. They embed generic characteristics and convey the form of possible specific design schemes. That they are not detailed prevents
Blucher Design Proceedings, Dec 1, 2021
The paper reports key instances from our field observations involving computational design practi... more The paper reports key instances from our field observations involving computational design practices to understand the process of generating and assessing alternative design options. Following an ethnographic approach, we investigate the nature of interactions within the team, which we conceptualize as a distributed cognitive system. We have observed a persistent effort-mostly driven by team leaders-to make the design idea-and design process in general-more legible and transparent for individuals within the team as well as others including clients and consultants. Through situated observations of collaborative computational practices, we investigate how design ideas are represented and externalized in a distributed cognitive system with the intention of achieving a legible schema to guide the design process. We report our interpretations concerning the concept of legibility and its various dimensions which predominantly relate to the need to clarify and justify the core design drivers and approaches in form-finding.
Ds 70 Proceedings of Design 2012 the 12th International Design Conference Dubrovnik Croatia, 2012
eCAADe proceedings, 2022
This study reports cases involving computational practices in architectural design to understand ... more This study reports cases involving computational practices in architectural design to understand how a distributed cognitive system supports multidisciplinary collaboration in design teams. In particular, we look into the role of coding languages in collaborative practices within interdisciplinary design teams. By providing an analysis on the distributed nature of the design process, this research aims to explain collaboration involving team participants with different skills in representation.
Blucher Design Proceedings, 2021
This study explores the integration of biomimicry into design processes by providing a closer loo... more This study explores the integration of biomimicry into design processes by providing a closer look at architectural practice and research and proposes a categorization of bio-inspired paradigms. Noticeable clusters within biomimetic approaches in architecture that share common principles are investigated throughout the research via a series of built examples that are considered to have biological phenomena as inspiration sources. Bio-inspired design processes are investigated via a categorization to detect the depth of analogical transfer and multiplicity. The paper sets out to present the issues concerning the analogical distance, multiplicity of approaches, and the decrease in the gap between nature and human-made phenomena.
Insider Knowledge - Proceedings of the Design Research Society Learn X Design Conference, 2019, 2019
This study explores the relationship between interactive imagery and shared mental models in a de... more This study explores the relationship between interactive imagery and shared mental models in a design learning environment. The study focuses on design, design learning, and the cognitive components of design. In this research, conceptual project development processes of third year architecture students, in a design studio where four instructors gave desk critiques on a rotational basis, are examined. Within the scope of the study, interviews were conducted with four students and four studio instructors. The process was analysed and interpreted based on the collected data and interviews. It is argued that interactive imagery and shared mental models, which are shaped in the studio's desk critiques, juries and panel reviews, affect students' conceptual project development. It is possible to conclude that if there is more than one studio instructor giving desk critiques on a rotational basis, students may have both advantages and disadvantages.
Design Computing and Cognition’20, 2022
Design Computing and Cognition’20
Blucher Design Proceedings, 2021
Computer vision (CV), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL)... more Computer vision (CV), artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and deep learning (DL) applications, which are among the rapidly emerging and growing technologies, have the potential to be effectively used in the fields of architecture and construction. These applications are used not only in the field of architectural design development and construction site tracking but also to analyze and predict the architectural properties of existing buildings and heritage classification. This paper aims to classify and analyze the façades of Bodrum houses by using deep learning models, comprehensive relational database (RDB), and artificial neural network based clustering methods. Through the use of the above-mentioned methods, we managed to cluster Bodrum houses' façade attributes in five groups and testing image classification models in three different classifiers.
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, 2018
This study investigates the use of similarities in the form of analogy, metaphor, and simile by s... more This study investigates the use of similarities in the form of analogy, metaphor, and simile by students and reviewers in an undergraduate architectural design review. In contrast to studies conducted in vitro settings, this study emphasizes the importance of studying analogies, metaphors, and similes in a natural setting. All similarity relationships were coded according to their type, the level of expertise, range, frequency, goal, value judgment, and depth. The results indicate that analogies, metaphors, and similes were used spontaneously and without any difficulty by both reviewers and students. Reviewers, however, were almost twice as likely to evoke similarities. Metaphor was the most frequently used similarity relationship among the three. It was found that there was a significant relationship between the level of expertise and type of similarity, with students more likely to use analogies and less likely to use similes. It was also found that goal is the most important fact...
PsyCh journal, 2017
The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensor... more The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensory inputs have an impact on the way-finding strategies of blind people and to identify these impacts, where applicable. We specifically investigated how blind people use their senses to compensate for the lack of visual information and how the priority of senses changes according to the urban context. The participants of the study consisted of nine congenitally blind individuals and the study took place in two urban settings: a dense urban district, Kemeralti district in İzmir; and an urban park, the İzmir Fair Park. During the learning phase, a first trial along the selected routes was conducted for each participant individually along with one of the researchers. In the test phase, the participants were requested to re-walk the route and verbally report the environmental cues they attended to. The participants' verbal reports were recorded and transcripts of the recordings were coded...
Design Studies, 2013
This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth year ... more This study investigates differences in analogical reasoning among first, second, and fourth year students and expert architects. Participants took part in an experiment consisting of four tasks: rating source examples, selecting a source domain, explaining their selection, and designing a bus stop. The results indicate significant differences among participants with respect to their soundness ratings. The results also show significant relation between level of expertise and participants' selection of source categories, the stated reasons for their selection, and the type of similarity they established between source and target. We conclude that experts preferred 'mental hops' while first year students preferred 'mental leaps.' Second and fourth year students preferred neither 'mental leaps' nor 'mental hops' but to literally copy the sources.
Design and Technology Education an International Journal, Oct 31, 2012
Studies in cognition In many studies of well-defined problems, diagrammatic representations illus... more Studies in cognition In many studies of well-defined problems, diagrammatic representations illustrate either causal or temporal relationships between parts of entities and phenomena that the diagram represents. In architecture, diagrams are used to represent causal relationships, such as with orientation diagrams, or temporal relationships, such as with circulation diagrams. There is, however, another kind of diagram that is used to represent the main idea or the core of a design. We call these diagrams conceptual diagrams. They differ, potentially, from other diagrammatic representations studied thus far in that they represent an abstract conceptualization of a potential problem solution. Diagrams in other fields can be interpreted as conceptual diagrams as well, such as a diagram that shows the electron orbiting around a nucleus in atomic physics, or the supply-demand diagram in economics. In the domain of scientific discovery, Nersessian Conceptual diagrams are abstract represen...
This study presents the results of cognitive-historical analysis (Nersessian, 1995) of two case s... more This study presents the results of cognitive-historical analysis (Nersessian, 1995) of two case studies from architectural practice: the First Unitarian Church of Rochester by Louis I. Kahn and the New Staatsgalerie by Stirling and Wilford Associates. The investigations trace the evolution of the cognitive system in each case through studying sketches and focusing on one particular kind of external representation: the conceptual diagrams. representation that embeds a conceptualization of a design situation (Dogan & Nersessian, 2002). These diagrams are concise, yet powerful in that they provide high-level commitments constraining potential solutions. They embed generic characteristics and convey the form of possible specific design schemes. That they are not detailed prevents
Socio-spatial Research in Sıra Neighbourhood of Urla and Architectural Proposal
40 mins talk on the projects about Romani in the Sıra Neighbourhood of Urla TRT (Institution of ... more 40 mins talk on the projects about Romani in the Sıra Neighbourhood of Urla
TRT (Institution of Turkish Radio and Television)
Voice of City İzmir 99.1 FM
28 August 2015
http://siramahallesi.wordpress.com