Design confronts us constantly with its questions…

What does an object tell us? Within what network of thought is a form born? How does one solution lead to new questions? How do we create problems…

Industrial Design is not merely the shaping of objects; it is a practice of comprehending the world, questioning it, rethinking it, and reinterpreting it.

This department is concerned more with process than result, more with questions than answers, more with movement than stillness; it is a field of thought that absorbs the chaotic plane.
Thanks to the interdisciplinary relationships it establishes with engineering, medicine, art, and the social sciences, the Department of Industrial Design does not direct its students within ready-made patterns; rather, it encourages them to think critically, to research, and to produce. At this point, design is as much an ethical responsibility as it is a technical skill; as much a social position as it is an aesthetic pursuit.

Our educational approach aims not only to train professionals, but also to cultivate individuals who think, discuss, and are capable of intervening in the world through design; who are moral, beneficial to their country, and aware of their own selves. What is expected of our students is not to repeat what is correct, but to demonstrate the courage to continuously reconstruct and reinterpret what is right.

Industrial design, with its love of quality, approaches design not as a closed field of expertise, but as an ever-expanding, dynamic, and accumulating ground of thought. We invite our students to think, produce, and question together with us on this ground.

Assist. Prof. Dr. Ahmet Şadi Ardatürk