"A Prelude to Design" Event at BAU Future Campus

The BAU Faculty of Architecture and Design held the "A Prelude to Design" event at BAU Future Campus on Saturday, 11 December 2021.

The event began with an opening speech by Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Prof. Dr. Murat Dündar. Lighting designer and founder of ONOFF Lighting Design Ali Berkman, with his talk titled "Light&Darkness," enabled participants to look at light and shadow with a fresh eye. At the end of the talk, he was presented with a certificate of appreciation by Vice President Prof. Dr. Ahmet Beşkese and Dean Prof. Dr. Murat Dündar.

The event continued with an exhibition opening and a cocktail reception. The exhibition features works produced in Basic Design courses by first-year students of the Department of Architecture, the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and the Department of Industrial Design. Students of the Departments of Architecture and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design worked on Solid & Void, one of the most fundamental architectural themes, through a project titled "E(MOTION)." They sought to express their emotions with the help of light, shadow, texture, material and color. Students of the Department of Industrial Product Design worked on a project titled "GROWING UNDERWATER NATURE," creating abstractions of underwater organisms of their choice by experimenting with modules and interpreting the concept of growth within a cube. The exhibition can be visited at Future Campus until 17 December.

The event concluded with an experimental workshop by world-renowned artist Fırat Neziroğlu, the newest member of the BAU family. In the workshop, students first became aware of the effect of body movements and then discovered how connected they are to one another through a hand-knitting exercise.