Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Department of Industrial Product Design (DIPD)was established in 1993 as a response to the emerging needs of the Turkish industry for creative designers with strong technological, managerial and entrepreneurial skills. In Istanbul, the industrial and cultural capital of Turkey, ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design provides design education of international standards at undergraduate and graduate (inc. PhD) levels in both languages, Turkish and English.
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Krippendorff's visit to ITU
Prof. Klaus Krippendorff (University of Pennsylvania, USA), one of the leading figures of design theory, visited ITU, and gave an seminar titled as "Human-centered Design: Epistemology, Principles and Key Concepts". Krippendorff's seminar, took place as part of ITU International Design Lectures on 11th of March in Hall 109 of ITU Taskısla Building, attracted the strong interest of, not only the member and students of ITU graduate program of design, but also larger sections of design research and education community in Istanbul.
Award Winning Design Project from an ITU Alumnus
With her project "Rescue Bottle", a water purifier that mixes purified water with electrolytes and nutritions, Ceren Bagatar (ITU'02) won CUMULUS Green Award (2009). The award giving ceremony took place on 13 November 2009 at the Melbourne Museum, Australia, during the Cumulus conference 38° South (12-14 November 2009). With the same project, Ceren also won the silver prize in Cumulus International Design Award "Design Inspiring Humanism", and was shortlisted Aspen Design Challenge "Designing Water's Future" competition in 2008. Ceren continues her postgraduate education at Umea Institute of Design, Sweden. Please follow the link for her award winning project.
HDK’s (Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk) visit to ITU
A group of design educators from HDK - Högskolan för Design och Konsthantverk (School of Design and Crafts) at Götenborg University in Sweden visited the Dept. of Industrial Product Design on 7th of December 2009. In the seminar realized as part of the groups planned visit, Prof. Alpay Er welcomed the group, and briefly introduced ITU and the IPD department, later Theo Ågren, Henning Eklund and Johnny Friberg all from HDK, made presentations about the undergraduate program, "Business & Design" and “Child Culture and Design” master programs respectively.
4th National Design Congress: "Design or Crisis"
The 4th National Design Congress ‘Design or Crisis’ was held in Taskisla by the ITU Department of Industrial Product Design in 8-9 October 2009. Regularly organized by ITU, National Design Congress is the first and the only refereed national academic meeting in industrial design discipline in Turkey. The keynote speaker of 4th National Design Congress was Professor M.P. Ranjan of NID (India). Follow the link for details (in Turkish)
ITU hosts RCA in Istanbul
Dept of Industrial Product Design hosted a group of staff members and students from the Dept. of Critical and Historical Studies at Royal College of Art (RCA) of the UK. On 21st of April, David Crowley, Glenn Adamson, Sarah Teasley and Christine Guth, all members of the History of Design Programme, the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and RCA gave lectures in the seminar “Approaching Global Design Histories”, organized as part of “ITU International Design Lectures” series, and kindly supported by the British Council.
ITU student among lebens(t)raeume 2009 award winners
Begum Bercermen, a senior year ITU student, gets a place among the 15 winners in lebens(t)raeume 2009 organized by iF International Forum Design GmbH (Hannover, Germany). lebens(t)raeume 2009 has 174 contributions from 16 different countries. Begum is qualified to win the award with her universal design project. Follow the link for details.
Eczacibasi and ITU agree to support design research
ITU and Eczacibasi Group, one of the largest industrial conglomerates of Turkey, signed a protocol of collaboration to support research studies in the ITU Graduate Program of Industrial Design. According to the agreement signed by ITU Rector Prof.Dr. Muhammed Sahin and Eczacibasi Group CEO Dr. Erdal Karamercan on 3r of March, 2009, Eczacibasi Group, which includes VitrA a leading brand of sanitary equipment in Europe, and ITU have agreed to create a pool of research subjects originated from Eczacibasi Group companies, and to match these subjects with the research students enrolled in the ITU Graduate Program of Industrial Design. ITU Researchers who will work on these subject will be seconded by a monthly scholarship, and also supported by other opportunities of using laboratories and application facilities offered by the companies of Eczacibasi Group. ITU has the largest graduate program of industrial design in Turkey, with more than 120 research students with different disciplinary and professional backgrounds. Among the students are many designers and engineers working in the leading industrial companies of Turkey, and young academics of more than 10 different universities, who pursue their PhDs at ITU. Follow the link for more details. (In Turkish)
International Postgraduate Design Exhibition, Sheffield, 23-29 January 2009
ITU is part of International Postgraduate Design Exhibition with Only_Planet_Turkey (2007) project undertaken in "EUT 508E Advanced Design Project" postgraduate studio. The exhibition is hosted by the Sheffield Institute of Art and Design (SIAD), and contains postgraduate design projects from 9 different universities from the UK, Finland, Czech Republic, Poland, and PR China. Sheffield Hallam University, of which SIAD is a part, is one of the leading ERASMUS partners of ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design.
ITU graduate wins Samsung Young Design Award 2008 in Italy
Maral Kinran, a recent graduate of ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design has been awarded with the Gold Prize in Samsung Young Design Award 2008. Maral and her colleague Stefania Berselli, both currently pursuing their postgraduate studies at the Politecnico di Milano, designed the Diaby, digital device for diabetic children. 2008 Award Jury included Michele De Lucchi, Fritz Frenkler, Ezio Manzini, Alberto Meda, Richard Sapper and Dick Powell. With the Young Design Award, Samsung aims to establish a strong collaboration between the brand and Italian design, in order to create the "Next Design Generation" to build a strong bond between Samsung and Italy, by highlighting product design and conceptual electronics products/interactions a as key factor to create innovative consumer experience. The Award is only open to industrial and interaction design students enrolled with a design course in Italy (undergraduate or graduate). More information: SYDA 2008.
ITU PhD Students compete in Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge
Two PhD. students from ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design, Bengi Turgan and Etkin Çiftçi have been have been awarded at the NOVATech EMEA competition and qualified to compete in the Intel + UC Berkeley Technology Entrepreneurship Challenge (IBTEC). Bengi Turgan and Etkin Ciftci will present their project “Citewalk” on behalf of their start-up, Bilende-a design and development studio, to a jury formed by academics and investors at the UC Berkeley-Haas School of Business between 18-20 of November. The students are defining their product as “a cost effective mobile location based service that provides various content types to the end user”. Citewalk has been designed within a user centric model.
ITU design students met Queen Elizabeth II
On 15th of May 2008 as part of her official visit to Turkey Queen Elizabeth II of United Kingdom visited the Design Cities Exhibition at the Istanbul Modern, which focuses on the rise of seven international design cities (London, Vienna, Dessau, Paris, Los Angeles, Milan and Tokyo) over the last two centuries. The exhibition has been staged in collaboration with the Design Museum in London. In the exhibition hall, students and young graduates of ITU Industrial Product Design Department (DoIPD) were introduced to Queen Elizabeth II as young design talents of Turkey who will turn Istanbul into one of the emerging design cities. Four different design projects undertaken at ITU were presented to Queen Elizabeth by young ID graduates and students.
5 Senses of Istanbul - local sources of design innovation
"5 Senses of Istanbul" is an experimental design project, conducted in Advanced Design Project course of the postgraduate ID program of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in spring 2006. The project, which was inspired by the documentary movie "Crossing the Bridge: Sound of Istanbul" (Dr. Fatih Akin, 2005) was directed by Turkish designer, Aziz Sariyer and the staff of ITU DIPD. Designers such as Inci Mutlu, Tanju Ozelgin and Otto Von Busch also contributed to the project in different stages. Twenty-two students took part in the "5 Senses of Istanbul" project for 4 months. The final prototypes of the chosen design proposals were built with the support of Nurus, a leading Turkish office furniture company. With this project ITU became part of the show in the SaloneSatellite (Salone del Mobile) for the second times in 4 years, and "5 Senses of Istanbul" was exhibited in the Milan Design Week 2007. The project was also exhibited in Istanbul Design Week, 4-10 September 2007.
ITU DIPD has become the first Turkish design school to take part in Nokia’s international design education project Only_planet. As part of our collaboration with Nokia, renowned visual design ethnographist Jan Chipchase was in Istanbul to give seminars and work with students of Graduate Program of Industrial Design at ITU. Project outcomes were presented in Design Weeks in Istanbul and Helsinki. Final document of the project “Only_Planet Turkey” can be downloaded here.
ITU has "Multidisciplinary Approach to Product Innovation”!
ITU DIPD students are part of “Multidisciplinary Approach to Product Innovation” Socrates Intensive Program (IP), participated by design and engineering schools from seven different European nations. ITU participated to the IP program hosted by HOWEST in Kortrijk/Belgium in 2007 and 2008. For details please click.
ITU student wins "Electrolux Design Lab 2006"
Metin Kaplan, a senior year student of ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design is the winner of Electrolux Design Lab in 2006, one of the most prestigious student design competitions to which hundreds of projects were submitted by design students from 37 different countries. for details: www.dexigner.com for Electrolux Design Lab: www.electrolux.com/designlab
Competitive by Design: The Case of Finland
The 7th edition of ITU Industrial Design Meeetings was organized in cooperation with the University of Art & Design Helsinki (UIAH), the Finnish Embassy in Turkey, Design Forum Finland, and the İstanbul Branch of ETMK on December 8th, 2006. The meeting subtitled as "Competitive By Design: The Case of Finland was attended by the Ambassadress of Finland in Turkey, Maria SERENIUS, the Rector of UIAH Prof. Yrjö SOTAMAA and Nokia Design Director Eero MIETTINEN'. At the end of the meeting, an award ceremony for "ETMK Winning By Design 2006" was also held at ITU Taskisla. For the photos of the event, please follow the link.
3rd National Design Congress: "Discussing Design in Turkey"
The 3rd National Design Congresses ‘Discussing Design in Turkey’ was organized by ITU Department of Industrial Product Design in 19-21 June 2006 in Taskisla. Click for details
The Success of ITU students in Bombay Sapphire Competition
The Turkish finalists in the international glass design competition of Bombay Sapphire are Ferhan Egemen SUNAL (ITU'03), 3. Ece OVAÇAM (ITU 4th year student), 4. Mehmet KINDI (ITU Graduate student). Egemen SUNAL represented Turkey among 26 other countries with his design 'N.O.N.E' in 6 April 2006 in Bombay Sapphire Glass Design Competition in Milan.
ITU-ISO (Istanbul Chamber of Industry) Industrial Design Projects for SME's
"Industrial Design for SME's" is the first systematic industrial design project for the SME's in Turkey. The project is conducted during the course "EUT 492 Graduation Design Project" at ITU. Senior DIPD students works with SME's that are members of Istanbul Chamber of Industry. SMEs with no previous experience in industrial design are targeted. The project was first run in 2003 since then it has been conducted every spring semester. More than 160 projects were completed in 6 years. Click for details
"UNIQUE" Home Accessories Exhibition in Istanbul Design Week
The projects of ITU IPD Department 3rd year students prepared in 2004-2005 Fall semester were exhibited in Istanbul Design Week 2005 during 13-18 September on the Galata Bridge. Click for details
Shared Surfaces for Future Workspaces
To see the details of the "Shared Surfaces for Future Workspaces" project that was held in 2004-2005 Spring Semester in the EUT 507E Advanced Design Project course, click for details.
Contemporary Reflections of Art Nouveau
ITU Dept. of Industrial Product Design exhibited products of glass, ceramics, jewelry, shoes and furniture with the subject "Contemporary Reflections of Art Nouveau" in the scope of UIA 2005 in Darhane-i Amire in 30 July - 8 June 2005. For more information and images of the exhibition, click for details.
ITU Alumni among the Wallpaper "10 Most Wanted Designers"
Wallpaper* - International Design, Interiors and Lifestyles magazine has introduced the most talented and promising 10 young designers in its July/August 2005 issue, two of them being the graduates of ITU Industrial Product Design Department. Click for details
ITU students design for SMEs
"ITU and ISO (Istanbul Chamber of Industry) have been collaborating since 2003 and carrying out various projects. The students design for the briefs of the industry and the manufactures in the industry produce them. The number of the projects completed by 2008 is around 160." The newspaper 'Referans' reported the projects held in EUT 492 Graduation Projects run by the collaboration with ISO in 21 June 2005. In his article, the ISO chairman Tanıl Küçük described the project as 'a successful example for the university-industry collaboration'. Click for details
First Turkish Design School to exhibit in the Milan Design Show
On the written invitation of Cosmit in 2002, ITU Department of Industrial Product Design became the first Turkish design school that exhibited student design projects in the Salone Satellite of Milan International Furniture Fair in April 2003. Exhibited design work was created in EUT 311 Product Design Studio course under the name of " The Project Milano" Thirty one students took part in the project in the fall semester of 2002. Full size prototypes and transportation expenses to and from Milano were covered by Koleksiyon, a leading Turkish furniture whose design manager Koray Malhan also acted in the project as a tutor. The project and the exhibition in Milano attracted a great interest, and covered widely in the local Turkish press. For more information and the project catalog, please follow the link.
