The use of slime molds as a design guide in urban design, A case of Turkey/İzmir/Karabağlar

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dc.authorid0000-0002-5906-4207
dc.authorid0000-0001-7938-3961
dc.contributor.authorKale, Irem
dc.contributor.authorAltun, Tutku Didem
dc.date.accessioned2026-02-08T15:15:45Z
dc.date.available2026-02-08T15:15:45Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentBursa Teknik Üniversitesi
dc.description.abstractUrban design is a complex and challenging process that encompasses many disciplines, such as urban planning, architecture, and landscape. On the urban design scale, it's important to consider short paths compatible with pedestrian behaviors, especially in public spaces, in terms of designing healthier and more accessible urban areas. But conventional design processes, which are mostly based on the designer's observations or intuitions, fail to satisfy user behaviors in usage. Studies reveal that P. polycephalum slime molds have the potential to guide good urban planning. However, it is noteworthy that there are not enough studies yet in the disciplines of architecture and urban design on the design of pedestrian ways in small-scale areas, and there is a need for research. In this direction, this study is the first step of a method that is aimed at being developed for the disciplines of architecture and urban design in the long process. The main hypothesis is that a design template can be created as a result of graphical analysis of living slime mold experiments on the map, especially in undesigned empty urban areas, for architects and planners, and it can provide creative suggestions to the designer. In this direction, in this study, a graphic design template proposal was created based on live cell experiments at a site in Izmir, Turkey, which the local government aims to design as a pedestrianized zone and open for competition. Slime molds are used directly as a computer rather than as inspiration for a computer, and a pedestrian-oriented design template proposal develops with the behavioral models of slime molds. Compared to the award-winning designs developed for the same area, it has been shown that even within the framework of simple graphical measurements, it gives better results and creates more optimal routes on main and side roads. It is envisaged that this study can play a pioneering role for studies involving more detailed mathematical models that can begin in the field of architecture and urban design.
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/23998083241239104
dc.identifier.endpage472
dc.identifier.issn2399-8083
dc.identifier.issn2399-8091
dc.identifier.issue2
dc.identifier.scopus2-s2.0-86000714463
dc.identifier.scopusqualityQ1
dc.identifier.startpage457
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1177/23998083241239104
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12885/5954
dc.identifier.volume52
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001249922500001
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ1
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopus
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd
dc.relation.ispartofEnvironment and Planning B-Urban Analytics and City Science
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess
dc.snmzWOS_KA_20260207
dc.subjectPhysarum polycephalum
dc.subjectslime molds
dc.subjecturban design
dc.subjectarchitecture
dc.subjectbiodesign
dc.titleThe use of slime molds as a design guide in urban design, A case of Turkey/İzmir/Karabağlar
dc.typeArticle

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