Designing a subway station for your campus: Case of transit architecture elective at AGÜ

Transportation planning and design had been a major concern from the urban planning perspective. Various means of transportation have shaped our cities and landscapes for ages and by looking at transportation buildings from an architectural perspective one can see that existing studies focus on the building performance of the transportation buildings or the history of them. Consequently, transportation building design is an important concern that should be addressed from multiple perspectives. Starting from 2019-2020 Fall Semester, Abdullah Gül University Department of Architecture started a new elective course ARCD 110 Transit Architecture, focusing on this issue. While the main intention of the course is to develop a critical view on the existing prescriptive design methods related to the transportation buildings and their environment, students are expected challenge these discussions at their final projects. In order to develop a critical view on the existing design methods, a considerable part of the class focuses on the design guidelines and typologies of the buildings along with the history of the selected building types. In parallel, student presentations showing different examples throughout the world to inspect different design approaches as well as to start debates regarding various debates around design, global world, awards in architecture, and symbolism in architecture. Afterwards, the class turns into a discussion environment focusing on design issues not only related to transportation buildings but also to the rest of the design environment which they might encounter in the future. these discussions start from multimodal and micro mobile transportation possibilities followed by the personal space as a design parameter. These arguments are followed by sustainability from triple bottom line perspective and the possibilities of different technologies and their effect on the transportation related buildings. Meanwhile, they also experiment with simulation tools to test their design cases in different conditions. After the discussions and the debates students are tasked to design a subway station in front of their campus for a final project. After four semesters, this paper will present the aim of the course, the class structure, projects and the findings of the course with selected examples from the course students to its readers

Etik Liderlik Davranışlarının Çalışan Sadakati Aracılığıyla İşe Adanmışlık Üzerindeki Etkisi: Bir Alan Çalışması

Etik liderler bir organizasyonun ahlaki çerçevesini şekillendirmede temel faktördür. Etik liderler ahlaki davranış paradigması içinde yaşarlar. Bu ahlaki davranış açık hedefler koymada ve çalışma hayatında dürüstlüğe değer veren bir takipçi tabanı yaratmada kullanılabilir. Bu çalışmanın amacı etik liderlik davranışlarının çalışan sadakati aracılığıyla işe adanmışlık üzerindeki etkisini incelemektedir. Araştırma kapsamında bir devlet üniversitesinde çalışan 247 akademik ve idari personel üzerinde kurulan hipotezlere yönelik değerlendirmeler yapılmıştır. Araştırmada, yöneticilerin organizasyonlarda birer rol model oldukları, etik liderlik davranışları ile çalışan sadakatine yön verecekleri ve sonuç olarak da işe adanmışlık algısını pozitif yönde etkileyecekleri öngörülmüştür. Çalışma sonuçları, etik liderlik davranışlarının çalışan sadakati ve işe adanmışlık üzerinde pozitif etkisinin olduğunu, ilave olarak da çalışan sadakatinin etik liderlik davranışları ile işe adanmışlık alt boyutları arasında aracılık rolünde olduğunu ortaya koymuştur

Religious Pluralism and Religious Consumption Culture in The Public Sphere

Even if we are not able to argue that religion is a reality which produces symbols for social life, we can speak of it functioning as a shield against several pains of modernism with its properties of providing confidence, producing meaning and giving peace. As secularization theories put it, religion is not totally with drawn from social life; yet it has been largely limited with the private sphere. We can talk about religion as “an economic value”, “a marketable commodity”, “a consumable object”, “a matter of fashion” or which “serves as therapy”; as well as an issue of “subjective” and “personal preference.” Several theories have been put forward to explain these kind of views on religious phenomena peculiar to modern or postmodern period, such as “rational selection theory”, “religious pluralism” and “religious mobilization.” In this study, Islam in general and indicators of religious situation in Turkey in particular will be evaluated in the context of “consumer culture” and “religious mobilization.”</p