Gökçe Uzgören Visited Medipol University Urban Design and Landscape Department Urban Sociology Course as Guest Lecturer

Gökçe Uzgören, Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, was a guest lecturer in the "Urban Sociology" course given by Melis Oğuz at Medipol University, Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, and gave the students "The use of digital platforms". He made a presentation on “The Effect of Space on the Production Process”.
 
The first two hours of the course are planned by Melis Oğuz to share the theoretical information about the lesson topic of the week, and the remaining two hours to be hosted by lecturers from other universities to examine and present case studies based on field research on the subject. In the last lesson of the course in the 2020-2021 Spring Semester, Gökçe Uzgören, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, made a presentation on the role of the rapidly developing sharing economy platforms in the production of space at different scales in the digitalizing world, and then a discussion with the course instructor Melis Oğuz and the students taking the course. environment has been created.
 
Gökçe Uzgören shared her thoughts on the lecture and her presentation as follows:
 
“Although a lot of work has been done on the production of space, we can say that in today's world where information and communication technologies (ICT) are developing rapidly, there has not been enough work in our country on the effect of digital platforms on this production process. In particular, I humbly told the students about the role of digital platforms based on the sharing economy (P2P=peer to peer) business model in the production process of urban space. The place of digital sharing economy platforms, which are both increasing in number and increasing in scale along with this increase, in urban life is becoming more and more noticeable with each passing day. The effects of digital accommodation platforms, which are spreading rapidly in cities, especially in urban tourism, in our cities are quite large. Creating alternatives sensitive to local dynamics in the government-private sector-civil society triangle can be a good way for these platforms, which are often criticized for touristizing local areas and displacing local users. Exchanging ideas with students about the impact of these platforms, which we use in many areas of life such as transportation, accommodation and shopping, on spatial formation, opened my horizons. My esteemed teacher, Dr. Instructor Being a guest of this lecture by its member Melis Oğuz also honored me. Thank you very much for the invitation.”
 
We congratulate Gökçe Uzgören for this presentation and wish her continued success.