Activities 2013

March 11, 2013

Panel in the Memory of Kağan Güner

The Department of Industrial Design in memory of its dear instructor who passed away in August 2011, Kağan Güner, initiated a series of academic talks named "Design and Philosophy Talks". The first event in this series was a panel on Monday 11th of March 2013. Kağan Güner's family and some of his closest friends also attended to this panel. The event began with a gathering in Hüseyin Ateşin exhibition room and continued with the panel. Before the panel Dr. Guita Farivarsadri, the head of Department of Industrial Design, Dr. Şebnem Hoşkara, the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, and Dr. Osman Yılmaz the vice- Rector of the Eastern Mediterranean University each delivered a short opening speech about Kağan Güner. The panel then continued with a talk by Prof. Caner Karavit (vice-Rector of Mimar Sinan University) on "The Earth as A Design- Bir Tasarım Olarak Yeryüzü " and after that Ogan Güner had a presentation about the unfinished thesis of Kağan Güner related to "Turkish Modern Art, 1930s: "Avant-Garde" Era of Turkish Republic".