FHS and BAU Hold a Joint Workshop

The Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture and Austria's Fachhochschule Salzburg University of Applied Sciences are holding a joint workshop. The workshop will focus on drawing attention to migration, which emerged with the Syrian crisis and has become a global problem worldwide.

Joint educational activities have been carried out for six years between Austria's Fachhochschule Salzburg University of Applied Sciences (FHS) and the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture and Design. Within the framework of these activities, various workshops are held in Salzburg, Austria in the winter semester and at BAU Istanbul in the spring semester. This year, between 9 and 13 May 2016, a group of students and faculty members from FHS will carry out a joint project with students of the BAU Faculty of Architecture and Design.

The work will be carried out in mixed groups consisting of Austrian students and students from Bahçeşehir University's Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, and Industrial Design. The interaction of design students working at different scales in mixed groups and the international nature of the work allow students to gain valuable experience.

THE AIM IS TO DRAW ATTENTION TO "MIGRATION"

In this workshop, work will be done to draw attention to migration, which emerged with the Syrian crisis and has become a global problem worldwide. As a method, the aim is to design various objects and elements that create spatial settings using the basket weaving technique and to produce them at full scale. The designed products, including floating objects and boundary-defining and space-creating structures, are treated as elements of a hypothetical exhibition and refer to various themes related to the concept of migration.

The workshop is supported by the Directorate of Conservation Implementation and Supervision of Cultural Assets (KUDEB) of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality.

The collaboration between Salzburg FH University of Applied Sciences and Bahçeşehir University has become a tradition, having continued for many years, and covers various activities such as Erasmus student and staff exchanges, workshops, joint credit courses and joint research.