The World Design Organization (WDO) has set the World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) theme of 2020 as “Design for Everyday Life” and invites all design circles to take part in this theme. In this regard, the Industrial Design Departments Graduation Projects Exhibition is organized within the framework of 29 June [...]
Happy World Industrial Design Day!
Reyhan Sezgin and Melike Özmen will introduce "Amorf Doğal Taş Yarışması" on 15th of May Friday at 12:30 via Zoom. Meeting ID: 87416396978 Password: 026149
Design Week Turkey is the most extensive design event in Turkey. This year, our department will be there with the department exhibition. Apart from the exhibition, there will be talks and panels with the people form our department. In the main stage, on November 14, one of our part-time instructors, [...]
Design Fiction Works research group is conducting a new workshop. What if the things you use could talk and tell their stories? Would you mind lending an ear to them? In this workshop, we will be using sensor data to talk with objects. Workshop will take place in the [...]
Design Fiction Works research group is conducting a new workshop! What will happen when organic tissue is material for product designers? In this workshop, we will be using design fiction to think about unfamiliar futures, by generating science-fiction artifacts. On October 5, in METU ID. Learn more and apply through [...]
The year 2019 is the anniversary of two important developments in the industrial design education history of Turkey; in this year we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first industrial design course in our country and the 40th anniversary of the foundation of our department. The celebration events started with [...]
The fifth annual DRS Pedagogy SIG Learn X Design conference, Insider Knowledge, was held between July 9-12 at Middle East Technical University. The conference hosted 150 delegates from 81 institutions in 31 countries, highlighting the continued interest in design education research around the world. In all, 87 papers and 6 workshops [...]
During 50/40 events, celebration gifts were given to previous department members of early years. Gifts are designed by Gülşah Zeynep Demirezer within the scope of the project “Gift product for celebrating 50/40 years of Industrial Design Education at METU” carried out in ID 202 course during the 2018-2019 spring semester. [...]
Our department hosted the 24th meeting of Industrial Design Departments Academic Council (ETAK) as it celebrates its 50th and 40th anniversaries. 40 delegates from 24 institutions joined around the theme: “institutional improvement”. Delegates discussed quality assurance and accreditation issues and at the end of the meeting, the student delegation [...]