The third and final stage of the social responsibility project titled “An Equal World for All: Overcoming Obstacles Together”, in which Res. Asst. Ayşe Seray Engin from the Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Department of Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA), and Res. Asst. Merve Karadaban and Res. Asst. Ezginaz Kara from the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design took part as executives, was realized on Tuesday, January 04, 2025. Thus, all stages of the project have been completed and the project has been completed.
In the third stage of the project, the project team visited the “Dialogue in Silence Exhibition” located in the Dialogue Museum, which was established to understand visually and hearing impaired individuals, who are disadvantaged groups in society, in the Şişli district. First of all, the project managers bought tickets for the “Dialogue in Silence Exhibition”. Until the event time, they ordered coffee in sign language at the cafe in the museum where hearing impaired individuals work. The Dialogue in Silence Exhibition aims to teach sign and body language to its participants with various games that last approximately 40 minutes and in a completely silent environment. In the exhibition, accompanied by a hearing and speech impaired guide, the participants tried to learn both sign and body language and letters. In the exhibition, which included various activities, the participants tried to communicate by using mutual sign language. The project managers, who had a very enjoyable time at the end of the event, had another extraordinary experience and experienced how important it is to know sign language.
This project, which was completed with the last stage of the project, is in line with its main purpose when all stages are considered; It was carried out in order to experience and understand the difficulties experienced by people from different disadvantaged groups of society such as individuals with Down syndrome, visual, hearing and speech impairments.
We would like to thank our research assistants who participated in the project.
