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Design Week 2023

EMU Design week 2023 website​

In the spring semester 2023, EMU Faculty of Architecture is organizing the 10th International Design Week in the period 17 th to 18 th of May, 2023. This year is a unique occasion since INTDW celebrates its 10th anniversary. In an attempt to cover the previous INTDW topics and activities, together with the spirit and the atmosphere where many participants enjoyed being a creative part of it, this year we would like to introduce the theme and explanation of the 10th INTDW: “CO-CREATE !” COMMUNICATE… to bridge the gaps and facilitate a common understanding of today’s phenomena… INTERACT… to improve the multidisciplinary contexts of 21st -century design paradigms… SOCIALIZE… to limit the differences in cultural and artistic expressions … UTILIZE …. design thinking to involve new platforms for creative campaigns and activisms … MERGE … with the ongoing tendencies and mainstreams by affecting positively the communities … CONCEPTUALIZE… the leading ideas and reflect the best of the creative potentials… CHANGE… the way of perceiving the “new” world polluted on different levels of existence… CLARIFY… the differences through creative, utilitarian and ergonomic aspects … INTERMEDIATE… between complex societal phenomena and the need for activism… EVOLVE… transforming into a tool for open and creative communication between cultures… These ten keywords refer to the open framework of the theme having wide opportunities for varieties of approaches. It is expected to have an inspiring program of talks, workshops, and exhibitions having their main goal of questioning, debating, confronting, communicating, and proposing and testing new ideas and visions. As always before, EMU INTDW tends to respond to the need for challenging the meaningful opportunities to experience, communicate and think about design. ​


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Design Week 2019

EMU design week 2019 website

Despite all the dependent parameters inherent, Design is independent act because of its willful nature. Design is a series of destructive-constructive set of actions. For any design, the concepts, functions and forms inherited in the already available information in the first place are distructed primarily in the mind, and reconstructed into other structures. Here at this point, the individual designer’ s having a professional mental library is not enough for this combined action. Especially when the concepts are refered, the designer establishes a world in which the design s/he produced is included. In this sense, in fact, every object is part of the utopia in which it belongs to, and the designer is the figurative founder of this utopia. Therefore, at least they should be aware of the current ideal life theories.



 

 

Design Week 2018

EMU design week 2018 website

In one world - each of us being particular, unique and valuable - we exist together. We need to have respect to all varieties in multiplicity, being aware of their own uniqueness and without distancing from their own peculiarity. Responsive relations of a subject to another subject lead a way to an egalitarian and peaceful coexistence. Design, within all its disciplines, is our vivid and ontological tool to make this world a better place. Through design, there is a lot we can do together, and we can start by melting differences in a single pot. To manifest this understanding, the theme of EMU_ IntDW2018 has been figured around the theme “existHence”... 


 


 

Design Week 2017

EMU design week 2017 website

Witnessing many historical cross points Famagusta became artificial shelf of artifacts, some of them still actively participating in serious transitions towards needs of contemporary sensitivities, re-examinations, literally being imaginary central structure. It is still connecting different peripheries, constantly existing as center-social point, core, focus, mainstream, as well as being hot spot and playground for confronting ideas that reveals its multilayered inner structure. In a process of detection of this imaginary “HUB”, today’s practices of “unboxing” its values can lead us into adventure of how to repeat/re-read/re-understand/re-focus...


 


 

Design Week 2016

6th-International Design Week Facebook Page

Theme for 2016

Sound, Peace, Soul


 

Design Week 2015​​

5th International Design week Facebook Page

This is the 5th Event arranged by the Faculty of Architecture. The arrangement includes design workshops under the main Theme of Green and Sustainable Design. All undergraduate and Master students are kindly invited to attend any workshop that fulfills their criteria of interest.​IntDW2015-EMU "Green Gesture": organized by the Faculty of Architecture and the Design Club of Eastern Mediterranean University - 20-22 May 2015​







 

 

Design week 2014

4th International Design Week Facebook Page 

Theme for 2014
 
Collaborative Creativity celebrated by the contributions of Boran Ekinci, Bo Ming Tang, Kamran Ashfar Naderi, Neslihan Ercan and many more...


 

As Plato states "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation", as Emerson states "it is a happy talent to know how to play", and as Einstein states "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought". The relationship between creative activity and play is enermous, and play plays a greta role in design. To reveal that, the theme of International DesignWeek2013-EMU is "play"....


 

Design week 2013

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture – 3rd International Design Week 2013

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/3rdInternationalDesignWeek2013Emu?fref=ts

Theme for 2013

As Plato states "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation", as Emerson states "it is a happy talent to know how to play", and as Einstein states "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought". The relationship between creative activity and play is enermous, and play plays a greta role in design. To reveal that, the theme of International DesignWeek2013-EMU is "play"....

     The name of the game is ... design; so let's PLAY!

 

Design week 2013

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture – 3rd International Design Week 2013

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/3rdInternationalDesignWeek2013Emu?fref=ts

Theme for 2013

As Plato states "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation", as Emerson states "it is a happy talent to know how to play", and as Einstein states "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought". The relationship between creative activity and play is enermous, and play plays a greta role in design. To reveal that, the theme of International DesignWeek2013-EMU is "play"....

     The name of the game is ... design; so let's PLAY!

 

Design week 2013

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture – 3rd International Design Week 2013

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/3rdInternationalDesignWeek2013Emu?fref=ts

Theme for 2013

As Plato states "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation", as Emerson states "it is a happy talent to know how to play", and as Einstein states "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought". The relationship between creative activity and play is enermous, and play plays a greta role in design. To reveal that, the theme of International DesignWeek2013-EMU is "play"....

     The name of the game is ... design; so let's PLAY!

 

Design week 2013

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture – 3rd International Design Week 2013

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/3rdInternationalDesignWeek2013Emu?fref=ts

Theme for 2013

As Plato states "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation", as Emerson states "it is a happy talent to know how to play", and as Einstein states "Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought". The relationship between creative activity and play is enermous, and play plays a greta role in design. To reveal that, the theme of International DesignWeek2013-EMU is "play"....

     The name of the game is ... design; so let's PLAY!


 

 

Design week 2012

2nd International Design Week Facebook Page


Theme for 2012:

Try once.Fail once.No matter...

Try again.Fail again.No matter...

Create,be BOLD & ENJOY designing.



 

Design week 2012

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture - 2nd International Design Week 2012

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/EMU-Faculty-Of-Architecture-2nd-International-Design-Week-2012/380276372024429?fref=ts

Theme for 2012

Try once.Fail once.No matter...

Try again.Fail again.No matter...

Create,be BOLD & ENJOY designing.

 

Design week 2012

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture - 2nd International Design Week 2012

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/EMU-Faculty-Of-Architecture-2nd-International-Design-Week-2012/380276372024429?fref=ts

Theme for 2012

Try once.Fail once.No matter...

Try again.Fail again.No matter...

Create,be BOLD & ENJOY designing.

 

Design week 2012

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture - 2nd International Design Week 2012

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/EMU-Faculty-Of-Architecture-2nd-International-Design-Week-2012/380276372024429?fref=ts

Theme for 2012

Try once.Fail once.No matter...

Try again.Fail again.No matter...

Create,be BOLD & ENJOY designing.

 

Design week 2012

Title of the program on Facebook: E.M.U Faculty Of Architecture - 2nd International Design Week 2012

 

Website link on Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/EMU-Faculty-Of-Architecture-2nd-International-Design-Week-2012/380276372024429?fref=ts

Theme for 2012

Try once.Fail once.No matter...

Try again.Fail again.No matter...

Create,be BOLD & ENJOY designing.



 

Design week 2011

 
Theme for 2011:
Try once.fail once.no matter.
Try again. fail again. no matter.
Create, be bold & enjoy designing...



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