Taking on the role(s) of catalyser, connector, and facilitator — Author: Melissa Clissold Editor: Nikkole Mojica Summary (TL;DR) Mobilizing communities in the face of crisis is vital, particularly in country-wide situations where government response is lacking. Disaster preparedness and emergency response requires good coordination, communication, and compassionate approaches within civil society.

The role of alternative learning spaces for sparking innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing issues — Author: Melissa Clissold Contributors: Atalay Akpınar, Başak Aras, Busra Serdar Special thanks: Arkhé Innovate team and Ayten (the cook) Photography: Zişan Özdemir & ATÖLYE team “Communities are spaces where one’s every state is transformed through sharing.” — Zeynep Cansu Öner, Regenerate41

How we unlocked member engagement through incentives & rewards — Authors: Atalay Akpınar, Busra Serdar, dana shashaa Editors: Leen Sadder, Melissa Clissold, Nikkole Mojica Visuals: Tikuna Adeishvilli Summary (TL;DR) In this article, we share the behind-the-scenes of how we gamified our community model to boost member engagement in the ATOLYE Community. Through a proprietary incentive system called Blocks, we replaced traditional membership…

Re-Imagining Education As A Transformative Force For A Regenerative World — Author: Zeynep Aykul Yavuz, Senior Learning Designer, ATÖLYE Editor: Nikkole Mojica In-text Illustrations: Gökçe Kodan Introduction One repercussion of today’s rapidly changing world and its increasing level of uncertainty is the pressure on us to reconsider how we work, learn, teach, experience, design, and more. On January 25th, 2023, we facilitated…

Author: Luma Eldin @thinkdesignluma, ATÖLYE Community Member Co-authors: Mert Çetinkaya @mertcetinkaya, Director of ATÖLYE Academy; Leen Sadder, Head of Community at ATÖLYE Editors: Melissa Clissold @melissaclissold, Nikkole Mojica In-text Illustrations: Gökçe Kodan, Europe’s Resurgence is Relational This is a telling time for Europe. The undercurrents of globalization are surfacing into an increasingly disruptive world…

Navigating choppy waters with ease — Authors: Mert Çetinkaya, Barbaros Kaptanoğlu Editors: Melissa Clissold In-text visuals: Gökçe Kodan Introduction We believe that facilitation will become an essential organizational and individual capability in the upcoming decade. Going beyond the design-thinking hype, we believe that the capabilities of facilitation and designing collaborative processes (through facilitation) will have a huge…

ATÖLYE ve Today at Apple’dan, şehre taze bir perspektiften bakan bir program — Yazarlar: Emre Erbirer, Gulnaz Or, Melissa Clissold Editör: Oytun Elacmaz Çevirmen: Gizem Ünsalan “İstanbul. Dışarıdan bakanın kaos olarak gördüğüne, biz ev diyoruz.” Her şeyin göz açıp kapayıncaya kadar geçen sürede değiştiği bir zamanda yaşıyoruz. Yolda yürürken, yeni bir dönemece geldiğimizde bazen başladığımız noktayı unutuyoruz. Öğrenmek, ilham almak ve üretmek için…

Looking at the city through fresh perspectives with a program presented by ATÖLYE and Today at Apple — Authors: Emre Erbirer, Gulnaz Or, Melissa Clissold Editor: Oytun Elacmaz “Istanbul, they call it chaos, we call it home.” We are living in times where everything changes in the blink of an eye. When we come to a new turn, sometimes we forget the point where the road started, so…

Fiziksel mekâna bağımlılığın ötesinde platform odaklı bir anlayışı benimsemek — Yazar: Engin Ayaz Editörler: Ömer Faruk Ataş, Özgür Arslan, Melissa Clissold, Oytun Elacmaz Metin İçi Görselleştirmeler: Aleyna Tezer Çeviri: Gizem Ünsalan Ortak çalışma düzeni son on yılda dünyayı ele geçirmişken, böyle bir önermenin önümüzdeki yıllar için sunduğu değeri gözden geçirmek için doğru zamandayız. …