Abstract
“Collective Act” is an elective course which was opened for design faculty students in İzmir University of Economics/Turkey to prepare a social responsibility project that can meet the needs of the society by concentrating on the knowledge, experience, and capabilities of the designers in the social and collective direction of the design. The main aim of this course is to analyze the needs of local environments to create interactive design project. In the frame of this course, design faculty students from departments of Interior Architecture, Architecture, Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design, and Fashion Design turned the dream toys of children into reality. Eighteen children who are in need were chosen from the elementary school in İzmir/Turkey and asked to draw their dream toys. Design faculty students took verbal descriptions of the children during drawing process. The dream toy drawings of these children were turned into three dimensional design objects as part of this course and toys were manufactured at the workshop area in the university. As a final, these toys were given to these chosen children as report card gift. With the help of this course, we aimed to help develop the relationship between designer and person in need. This project taught design students to work collaboratively with other disciplines and produce a project for people in need. In addition, the students learned how to solve problems during design process and develop design management to finalize the project.
Presenters
Didem Kan-KilicAssociate Professor, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, Izmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, Izmir, Turkey
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
KEYWORDS
Social responsibility Toy design Collective act
