A Case Study of ART UNITED: Art and design students from East and West unite in Alaçatı, Turkey

Session

Integrated Design

Description

The purpose of this presentation is to present a case study of the ART UNITED. The idea of this project was to unite the three different populations (Mardin, Şırnak, Alaçatı) who study art and design in highschools across Turkey. While they all live in the same country, they all have very different visions and experiences of Turkey. The results are all very amazing and interesting.

Art and design schools in Istanbul have been highly improved for the last decade. However Eastern Turkey, especially the border of Syria, had just the opposite effect. The art high schools have been under stress and kids who study art have had life threatening experiences. While living in the same country but speaking different languages, our approach was to go and help them understand the political and social reality we all live in. The First experience was to visit Mardin (highly populated with Kurdish people and Arabs) and Şırnak (border of Syria) and to organize workshops for highly talented kids with dreams of becoming designers and artists. Our second approach involved taking the same kids from the eastern part of Turkey, all the way to the west of Turkey, to Alaçatı, where the environment is totally different, where one could say that kids don’t even have dreams because they live the dream-like life by the sea in a Windsurfer’s paradise.

Keywords:

art, design, society, education, teaching, workshops

Session Chair

Ajhan Bajmaku, Artrit Bytyçi

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-550-19-2

Location

Pristina, Kosovo

Start Date

26-10-2019 11:00 AM

End Date

26-10-2019 12:30 PM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2019.14

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A Case Study of ART UNITED: Art and design students from East and West unite in Alaçatı, Turkey

Pristina, Kosovo

The purpose of this presentation is to present a case study of the ART UNITED. The idea of this project was to unite the three different populations (Mardin, Şırnak, Alaçatı) who study art and design in highschools across Turkey. While they all live in the same country, they all have very different visions and experiences of Turkey. The results are all very amazing and interesting.

Art and design schools in Istanbul have been highly improved for the last decade. However Eastern Turkey, especially the border of Syria, had just the opposite effect. The art high schools have been under stress and kids who study art have had life threatening experiences. While living in the same country but speaking different languages, our approach was to go and help them understand the political and social reality we all live in. The First experience was to visit Mardin (highly populated with Kurdish people and Arabs) and Şırnak (border of Syria) and to organize workshops for highly talented kids with dreams of becoming designers and artists. Our second approach involved taking the same kids from the eastern part of Turkey, all the way to the west of Turkey, to Alaçatı, where the environment is totally different, where one could say that kids don’t even have dreams because they live the dream-like life by the sea in a Windsurfer’s paradise.