Industrial Design
Industrial Design program offers courses that focus on a practice-based approach to learning through university-industry cooperation, developing innovative solutions profound to social and environmental issues, meeting with local and the global market needs by developing innovative solutions, and emphasising human-centred design. Four-year educational program encompasses theory and practice-focused studio courses in order to provide students with the knowledge and the skills required to perform industrial design profession. First year of the program develop basic design knowledge in product design, then following years progressively encompass design-thinking skills through a practice-based approach.
In the Studio, courses aim to develop the students’ knowledge and skills in diverse fields, such as product, system, service and experience design, research methods, three dimensional thinking and creative problem solving skills through design projects from year one to year four. By the compulsory and the elective courses that aim to provide the students with fundamental skills and knowledge in free-hand drawing, technical drawing, computer aided drawing, sketching and modelling, model making, visual and verbal communication, analytical and conceptual thinking through experiential learning, fundamentals of the profession are being delivered. The Program, which embraces an interdisciplinary approach, allows the students with lateral entry and double major. Moreover, the students can undertake elective courses that are delivered by the industrial design or other departments to be able to specialise in diverse fields of industrial design profession.
Society, Design and Projects
Based on the needs of the society and the local manufacturers as well as the necessities of the gap in the local design field along with the facilities provided by Yaşar University, design projects are developed by the students in the Industrial Design Department, which mainly focuses on children and childhood culture, food, agriculture, tourism, and energy. Design projects realised by the students are not limited with the studio facilities of the University. In addition, they include field research, collaboration with society, local government bodies and institutions. Moreover, the outcomes of the design projects are shared with the community via media, with the aim of creating awareness in society.
Examples of Projects
Through design projects realised with the collaboration between Viking Paper Co and our department, three student projects were selected as “Applicable Design” in the academic year 2012-2013. At the same time, a design project was developed together with Vestel Design Team for the “2013 World Industrial Design Day” and shared with audience through national and international media.
Also, Toy designs, which look for solutions to the problems of the playgrounds in the cities and aim to improve local toy design sector as well as lighting designs, which emphasise the importance of reusability, are among other student projects, shared with the community via media. In addition, students’ projects will be exhibited at the second Istanbul Design Biennial, from 1 October 2014 to 14 December 2014, to display our students’ achievement in an international platform.