Browsing by Author "Eranil, Meltem"

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Crossing the Boundaries of Reality and Simulation: An Analysis of the Film Divergent
(Springer, 2025) Tasdemir, Esma; Eranil, Meltem
Innovative technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), virtual reality, and hyper-reality are reshaping how we perceive and interact with spaces. This research explores how new immersive technologies blur boundaries between reality and simulation, creating hyper-real environments that challenge traditional understandings of physical space. Using Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulation Theory, the study examines how these technologies influence spatial experiences. To ground these ideas, the dystopian film Divergent (2014) is analyzed, focusing on the real and hyper-real spaces of the Dauntless and Abnegation factions through Montgomery's Sense of Place Model. This study highlights how AI and hyper-reality reshape spatial narratives, enhancing our connections with environments and redefining identity and experience in both physical and simulated realms.
Digital environment and interaction in design education
(Nilay OZSAVAS ULUCAY, 2023) Ozge Demirbas; Meltem Eranil; Eranil, Meltem; Demirbas, Ozge
Traditional education techniques are shifting and changing today because of national and international advances as well as digitization. With the Covid-19 evolution institutional application-based design education has also had to transition to the online environment. In this study while the effects and results of the online environment in design education were investigated the interaction between the interfaces of learning management systems (LMS) which are digital platforms and the student was examined. Under the interface- student interaction student-instructor student-student and student-content were investigated. The study aims to examine student interaction through the Sakai and Blackboard interfaces used in online education in two universities providing design education in Izmir. Among the user research methods focus group interviews and online surveys on behavioral attitudinal and qualitative axes were completed and qualitative content analysis of the data obtained was conducted. In this study the reasons why the platforms and interfaces used are not preferred in terms of interaction the role and importance of other communication tools used by the students were investigated. Students stated that their interaction through the LMS was low and it was observed that the level of interaction was less than in the physical environment. However when interaction with other tools and platforms used in online education is taken into consideration the level of interaction has increased to a higher level. This study which was conducted by taking the current thoughts and comments of the students is aimed to contribute to the development of future user-oriented digital designs and the existing online conditions in design education.
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Social Housing as Paradoxical Space: Migrant Women's Spatial Tactics Inside Toki Uzundere Blocks
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2022) Meltem Eranil; Meltem O. Gurel; Eranil, Meltem; Gurel, Meltem O.
This study focuses on migrant women's experiences in TOKI Uzundere a housing settlement built in Izmir (2009) by the Mass Housing Administration of Turkey (TOKI). It problematizes the incompatibility between the apartments' standardized layouts and the residents' spatial practices. The study argues that these interiors have become paradoxical spaces with the potential to be transformed by women struggling to fit them to their daily routines and social and physical needs by applying certain spatial tactics. These tactics were charted through in-depth interviews with women observations inside their apartments schematic drawings and photography. Our analysis demonstrates how women's everyday practices and spatial tactics challenge and reconfigure the assumed uses of the interiors in these social housing units.