Şöhret PakişDirector of Marketing and Communications

Polin WaterparksSeptember 2019

Paris, France

Contribution of Attractions & Recreational

Facilities, Products, Activities, and Experiences to

H A P P I N E S S

History of Life & Human Beings•

Starting Modern City Life•

What They Call Human?•

Happy Cities? Possible?•

Contribution of Attractions& Recreational Products, Facilities & Activities toHappiness

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Final Words (For Now)•

Look deep into nature,andthen you’ll understand

everything betterAlbert Einstein

Life

Emily Dickinson, 1862

Each Person is a Universe…

THE BRAIN is wider than the sky,For, put them side by side,The one the other will includeWith ease, and you beside.

The brain is deeper than the sea,For, hold them, blue to blue,The one the other will absorb,As sponges, buckets do.

The brain is just the weight of God,For, lift them, pound for pound,And they will differ, if they do,As syllable from sound.

History of Life

Tree of Life

“We are the last fruits of the tree of life.”Being Human in the Digital World/ S. Canan-M.Acungil

“What they call humanWhat is human now I knowOh the living they chantWhat is living now I know”Muhiddin Abdal

What They Call Human…

You need to spend aconsiderable and constanteffort to attain happiness.Happiness depends on aperson’s fulfillment of his/herfunction in the best possibleway.Farabi

How the human beings live? How do they attain happiness ?

Designed to MoveHave Superior Social SkillsProgrammed to Stay Hungary/Consume Natural FoodsCannot Stand Constant StressDevelop/Go Beyond the Limits after Stepping out Comfort Zone

Source: Sinan Canan lecture notes

OXYTOCINBiological and emotional

attachment hormone

Not only oxytocin but also many chemicals in our body such as

are ready to facilitate social relations, and cooperation with people. DOPAMINE, ENDORPHIN, SEROTONIN, ADRENALINE

CORTISOLThis is a hormone released in

response to stress

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EXCITING

INTERACTIVE

THEMED

HIGH CAPACITY

VISUAL IMPACT

SPECTATORAPPEAL

Larson vd., 2016; Okulicz- Kozaryn vd. 2016

Starting ModernCity Life

“City is the place to acquire initial competencies for happiness. It is the

precondition for happiness.Societies that cannot create this space, build competent cities are destined to

be unhappy.”Farabi

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep Sea, and music in its roar:

I love not Man the less, but Nature more,

Lord Byron / Into the Wild

real life

movie

Is it possible to have a Happy City ?

Designed to meet needs of the soul!With an infrastructure supporting the most fundemantal

concepts of human connection( sense of community and meaning)

Cities should nurture our souls!Cities that bring us a sense of community and meaningHuman oriented citiesHappy cities are those that can bring people together,Focus on human beings,and has human experience at the heart of all of its

investments

Life is a sustainable imbalance

Erwin Schrödinger

CONTRIBUTION OF ENTERTAINMENT AND RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES TO (PHYSICAL/MENTAL/PSYCHOLOGICAL)

HAPPINESS

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Makes you take long walks withoutnoticing. Makes you muscles work. Good for your body

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Brings people together. Makes people socialize .

Binds them together. Helps to make connections.

Hoe Down for Ghost Town Alive!Knott’s Berry Farm, Buena Park, CA,

U.S.

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Walt Disney World

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MARTI We are at the Ice Rink EventSilivrikapı Ice Rink, December 2018

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Creates a land of fairy tales inside the city.

Invites you to different worlds.

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter™,Universal Japan, Tokyo, Japan

Pandora – The World of Avatar, Disney's Animal Kingdom,

Orlando

Makes you excited.Showers you with adrenaline.

Introduces you to differentexperiences and realities.

The New Revolution Virtual Reality

Rollercoaster, Europa Park, Germany

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Land Of Legends, Antalya

Kidzania, Istanbul, Turkey

Entertains while teaches.

Makes you smile, reduces your stress.

Royal Caribbean, Harmony of the Seas,

Helps to overcome fears.

Promotes sense of success.

Crystal Waterworld, Antalya, Turkey

Tropical Island, Germany

Brings you closer to the nature.

IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR BODY

SOCIALIZES

Invites you to different worlds

EXCITES YOU IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL

INTRODUCES YOU TO NEW EXPERIENCES & REALITIES

MAKES YOU DREAM

MAKES YOU SMILEREDUCES YOUR STRESS

HELPS YOU TO MAKE CONNECTIONS

MAKES YOU MOVE HELPS YOU TO BLEND IN

HELPS YOU TO OVERCOME YOUR FEARS

PROMOTES SENSE OF SUCCESS

“You can see the answer through the windowopened by the question”

Ali Suad

THANK YOUFor Now :)