While War Dominates the World Agenda, Peace Wins the "EU Product Design Competition"

Results of the "EU Product Design Competition" organized by the BAU EU Information Center announced

The results of the competition, organized by the BAU EU Information Center and open to undergraduate and graduate students in the faculties of architecture, design and fine arts of all universities as well as recent graduates, were announced on Thursday, 4 October. While no entry was deemed worthy of first prize, second place went to a design with the theme of "Peace and Unity."

3 WORKS RECEIVED AWARDS

In the competition, whose jury consisted of Özgür Alpfrom Kale Seramik, Hülya Çelik Pabuççupğlufrom Sasanna Tasarım, Pınar Azizoğlufrom ETMK, Eren Özalay from the BAU Department of EU Relations and Aslıhan Karahanlıfrom the BAU EU Information Center, 3 entries were found worthy of awards.

AWARD-WINNING PROJECTS

While no entry was found worthy of first place, Ayça Özel from Bilkent University won second place with her project "Peace and Unity," a magnetic desktop note holder consisting of two human-shaped pieces, and third place was shared by Hilal Coşkun from METU with her project "Organiser" and Cansu Balatlı from Anadolu University with her project "EU Ballpoint Pen."

PEACE WON

Bilkent University student Ayça Özel's project was unanimously deemed worthy of the award by the jury for its original design and its timely theme referring to the concepts of "peace, love, unity and integrity" . Against the war dominating the world agenda, the jury chose peace.

DESIGNS WILL BE PRODUCED

The winning designs will be produced for distribution to participants at conferences and seminars organized by the EU Information Network.