One-Day colloquium of ‘First Year Education in Schools of Design’

18^th May 2011

Theme of 2010-2011 Event:   Open 4 Learning

Venue:  Alpay Özdural Hall (A01)

Due to the importance of first year education in EMU, Faculty of Architecture has decided to organize a one-day event to provide a base for further discussions and idea exchanges. This event tries to address questions such as how first year courses might be reformed in light of combination of design, research, and practice and how first year courses can provide a strong foundation for upper design courses. The focus of this colloquium will be on important issues such as different approaches to teaching ‘basic design’ and ‘introductory design’ courses, difficulties and prospects of teaching in an interdisciplinary environment, and aims and outcomes of first year education in our Faculty.

for more information see future events of faculty of architecture website

Urban Design Postgraduate Program Students’ Project Visited by EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah

EMU Urban Design Postgraduate Program Students’ Project ‘Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus –EMU’ Visited by EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak  

An urban design project entitled with ‘Improvemnet Project for EMU Campus: Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus’ are studying by Urban Design Postgraduate program students and coordinating by Prof. Dr. Şebnem Önal Hoşkara and Assist. Prof. Dr. Beser Oktay Vehbi and research assistans Samaneh Ghafourian and Payam Mahasti for 2010-2011 spring semester. Since the project is related with the EMU campus and its improvement, the expectetions and needs  of the students and as well as the Rector Ofifice are essentials for taking some desicions. Therefore, the project coordinators and students  invited the EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak for presenting the possible potentials and existing problems of the campus to him an also to know their expectation for future of the campus.

Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak was visited the Urban Design Postgraduate Program project in the Faculty of Architecture on 15 April 2011. During this visit, the students were present the natural, physical and social analysis of the campus that will help to determine the strenghts and weakness of the campus.  It was also aimed to discuss the possibiltiy of the proposals that are developed by the students regarding the problems that gathered from the analyses and to hear the Rector’s ideas on them. He also shared Rector’s office new projects for the campus and advised possible locations for these projects to the UD programe students.

It was very helpfull discussion for the sudents to get the ideas of Rector’s office and accordingly they will produce most appropriate and applicable proposals for pedestrian/student friendly campus for final.

Design Week (Theme of the Design Week: Multi-colored structure) 2-6 May 2011

Theme of the Design Week:

Multi-colored structure (multi-countries, multi-races, multi-disciplines, multi-levels, multi-perspectives, or multi-colors) of the Eastern Mediterranean University in general, and the Faculty of Architecture in particular, is worth consideration in terms of supplying a rich and incentive working environment, where design is the formative of intersection. Design…. This multi-faceted configuration of design, and the understanding of design at the faculty of architecture, provides us a garden or common-ground of tolerance, where this diversity is handled within collaborative approach; and its rich context is underlined. Hence, throughout the ‘design week’, varying aspects of design will be experimented in varying methods of education. Parallel workshops, longtable J critiques, lectures, exhibitions, discussions, or, in general, a planned action will divert the concentration of first our students, almost 1000 in number, and then everybody on the campus on the action of design, with a wide perspective. This rich context will multi-ply with an acceleration and will make us multi-fly.

With a range of events and activities, the design week is designed to provide a unique opportunity to come and experience the lively, culturally stimulating creative environment on offer at the Faculty of Architecture, EMU.

The Design Week of the Faculty of Architecture will bring together designers in the best and most diverse sense of the word; people, who influence how we communicate, interpret, experience our environments and work together. This breadth of talent and perspective is intended to be habituated for our students with the upcoming “design week”, which will take place between 2-6 May, 2011.

Across the five days a lecture by the worldwide acknowledged Kengo Kuma, information sessions, workshops, career pathways seminars (featuring panel sessions with some of our renowned Alumni), exhibitions and other interactive events relative to all the undergraduate and postgraduate programs offered by the faculty with its three departments as architecture, interior architecture, and industrial design departments will be conducted.

A range of other activities will also be taking place at our Faculty plot in campus throughout the design week including an art and design student market, and social events that will take place synchronized with the May-fest offered by the EMU.