A Critical Analysis of the Role of Women Designers in the Progress of Industrial Product Design in Turkey Since the 80s

Abstract

Industrial product design can be stated as rather a new concept for Turkey that it has a history of almost forty years appeared as the introduction of this profession's education. Barely after the 1980s we can talk about the industrial product design activity in its true sense. It got broader as needed by the Turkish industry and developed parallel to this. This study examines the various roles and effects of women in the discipline of industrial product design in Turkey and is the evaluation of them for today and future of the discipline on the academic and practical grounds. This study's main concern is the women practitioners of industrial design who were effectual in the evolving of this task.