POST-OCCUPANCY EVALUATION OF COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATIONS: THE CASE OF FISHERIES COOPERATIVES IN İZMİR

Abstract

The cooperative associations are significant shared places by being a unique communitive environment especially for its’ associates, which are constructed for specific economic activities. The individual interventions of the associates to the physical environment and the cooperatives’ institutional identities are creating unique value chains and new identities for each association. This research aims to analyze the interaction among the associates and the association from the perspective of the Post-Occupancy Evaluation approach. With being public accessible places, the fisheries cooperative associations have been chosen for the case study. As a scope of the physical and sociological environments of the chosen cooperatives, the interaction among the associates, association managers, and the consumers have been aimed to be evaluated, through Post-Occupancy Evaluation. As a result of the study, the cooperative buildings and their surrounding environments can be re-evaluated for developing the experience for all stakeholders in the processes.