Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Faculty of Fine Arts (FFA) Interior Architecture and Environmental Design & Interior Architecture Departments Social Responsibility Project: “All Together in Our Living Spaces: Let's Design Cat & Dog Houses Around Us!” Online Exhibition met with the audience via the Artsteps platform.

 

“Together in Our Living Spaces: Let's Design Cat & Dog Houses Around Us!” With the social responsibility project titled, it is aimed to create a collective awareness to draw attention to the need for shelter not only of humans but also of animals. For this purpose, the project was carried out by the students of the Departments of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design & Interior Architecture, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department Head Asst. Prof. Dr. Zerrin Funda ÜRÜK, Interior Architecture Department Lecturers Asst. Prof. Dr. Yaprak ÖZEL, Res. Asst. Gökçe UZGÖREN, Res. Asst. Tuğçe ÖZTÜRK, Res. Asst. Merve KARADABAN and Res. Asst. Eliz MUTLU. 



The project process started by drawing attention to the issues of making it easier for our friends to meet their food and beverage needs and drawing attention to this in our living spaces by designing food bowls that are resistant to environmental conditions and functional, instead of the food bowls that are damaged by external factors in our living spaces or the materials used as food bowls. The students working within the scope of the project are Ayşe Sena ÖZCEYLAN, Buse IŞIK, Eda KARANİS, Naile ULUSOY, Rümeysa Hilal TONBUL. The process was carried out by giving critiques on the students' projects in meetings held every week on the Google Meet platform. The students worked on their designs, taking into account the environmental conditions and the ergonomic conditions of cats and dogs, proceeding from the idea of how they could improve the condition of the cat and dog homes they see in the environment they live in. Projects have been designed that will be a warm home for them and that will be produced from materials that are suitable for the physical conditions of the context and will not harm the environment.