Research & Sensemaking
Türkiye Care Library
The Türkiye Care Library brings together knowledge, resources, and lived experiences that are often scattered across different parts of the care ecosystem. Academic research, policy and strategy documents, theses, foundational texts on the ethics of care, events, podcasts, and community knowledge contribute to a shared body of understanding about care. The library serves as a reference point for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, caregivers, and organizations working in this field. By tracing how care is understood, discussed, and practiced across different contexts, it helps make visible the perspectives, experiences, and questions that often remain overlooked. As a living knowledge infrastructure, the library supports collective learning, sensemaking, and dialogue across the care ecosystem.
Research & Sensemaking
Türkiye Care Ecosystem Map
Understanding care as an ecosystem means seeing it not as a collection of isolated services or institutions, but as a complex adaptive system shaped by ongoing interactions among people, communities, institutions, more-than-human beings, and the environment. The outcomes that emerge within this system are neither fully predictable nor entirely random. Past experiences, feedback loops, and social, economic, and environmental disruptions continuously reshape how care is organized and experienced. Our Care Ecosystem Mapping work explores these interconnections and helps make visible how care is provided, shared, governed, and sustained across different levels of society. By mapping relationships, actors, resources, and flows of support, we develop a more holistic understanding of care systems and the conditions that enable them to thrive.
Research & Sensemaking
Türkiye Care Crisis Report
The Care Crisis Report examines why the challenges surrounding care should be understood as a form of systemic neglect rather than individual failure. Drawing on data, lived experience, and structural analysis, the report explores the conditions that have produced the current crisis, including the limitations of systems built around ideals of independence, productivity, and self-sufficiency. It also makes visible the often-unrecognized burdens carried by caregivers and communities. The report offers a framework for understanding care as a central social, economic, and political issue, and contributes to conversations about how more caring and sustainable systems can be built.
Research & Sensemaking
Care Dictionary
Care sits at the center of everyday life, yet the language available to talk about it often remains limited. Many concepts carry different meanings across disciplines, sectors, and communities, while some experiences of care still lack the words needed to describe them. The İhtimam Care Dictionary is a living resource that brings together key concepts, approaches, and debates from across the field of care. It supports the development of a shared language, creates space for new concepts to emerge, and contributes to the intellectual foundations needed to understand, discuss, and reimagine care.
Research & Sensemaking
Future of Care Report
The Future of Care Report explores how care may evolve in the years ahead and why the future of care will be shaped by the choices made today. Demographic change, the climate crisis, technological transformation, and shifting patterns of care work are creating new pressures and possibilities for care systems around the world. Through foresight, scenario thinking, and systems analysis, the report examines where current approaches are reaching their limits and what alternative futures might emerge. Rather than predicting what will happen, the report invites reflection on the conditions, values, and decisions that will shape how care is organized, experienced, and shared in the future.
Research & Sensemaking
Care Radar
Care Radar tracks emerging developments, new ideas, and early signs of change that may shape the future of care. Drawing on signals from Türkiye and around the world, it brings together weak signals, emerging trends, experiments, and evolving conversations across the care landscape. The aim is not to predict the future, but to make visible new possibilities, challenges, and directions that may influence how care is understood, organized, and experienced in the years ahead. Within each focus area, you can explore the signals, trends, and future-oriented insights we have collected and analyzed.
