Happy June 5th World Environment Day!

World Environment Day has been celebrated on June 5 every year since the United Nations Environment Conference held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1972, to raise awareness and take action around the world on environmental protection.
 
The slogan of 2018 World Environment Day has been determined as "Beat Plastic Pollution". It is called for people to make changes in their daily lives in order to eliminate the negative effects of plastic waste on nature, wildlife and human health.
 
One million plastic water bottles are purchased every minute around the world, and five trillion disposable bags are consumed each year. 50% of the plastic products we use are disposable products. The amount of plastic that accumulates in the oceans in one year is enough to circle the world four times, and it persists for a thousand years until it is completely dissolved. Plastics also directly harm the human body, and the negative effects can reach people's water and food through micro-plastics. In our world, where environmental problems are increasing, it has become even more important to direct individuals to research on this issue and to create a common awareness. From this point of view, ICM358 coded Future Environment course was opened within the body of Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design.
 
The aim of the ICM358 Future Environment course; To develop the creativity of students for the correct design of the environment we will live in in the future, and to provide students with the ability to recognize and plan contemporary practices related to this. This course is in the common social elective course pool of Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF) students and can be chosen by all students in the faculty. At lesson; The project focuses on issues such as accessibility, the research of functional fiction and their graphical expression, the changing needs of the developing society in a historical approach and the related user needs and the development of space performances, the concept of sustainability and its results in interior architecture, the concept and examples of utopia, and the development of creativity depending on needs. . Thus, it is aimed to develop the awareness of environmentally sensitive design.
 
Happy World Environment Day, wishing everyone to live in a healthy, clean and unharmed environment.