Influence of Turkish Coffee Culture on the Design of Small Home Appliances: Turkish Coffee Makers

Abstract

Culture is a complex integration consisting of material and moral stuffs by living people as a member of society who are learned by doing and taught. Therefore, it includes and effects lots of areas such as languages, beliefs, moral laws, consumption habits to hold together people in society. Culture also has over power on design and design processes like the other areas. These influences are inevitable because culture and design are in an interaction that enrich and nourish each other. Product design is one of the design area and one of the influential areas for individuals to show their culturel back grounds in a concrete way. That’s way, product design is an important line to put down the facts of the notion of culturel effects.The aim of this study is to examine the influences of Turkısh Coffee culture which has an important place in Turkish culture and has own rituels, Turkish has the effects of small house hold appliances aims to examine the culture of design on the Turkish coffee machines.To see what these effects are within the scope, firstly, Turkish coffee culture should be examined, after then with the examination of mechanization process of the Turkish coffee, Turkish coffee culture has tried to explain the traces in this design.Keywords: culture, design, product design, turkish coffee cultur, turkish coffee maker.