An Interdisciplinary Experimental Approach in Design Education: Online Workshop – “Design Your m3 on Your Campus”

Abstract

Workshops create a collaborative and/or sharing environment that supports our design education and turns it into an interactive one. They are important meeting places for students who continue their design education in different disciplines in different places to communicate and provide common working platforms. Therefore, such organisations, where versatile gains are achieved, are an indispensable part of education. For this purpose, the national workshop titled “Design your m³ on your campus” was held online with the voluntary participation of 47 students and 40 academicians from architecture, interior architecture and landscape architecture departments. The widespread use of online communication tools and online studies, which have gained momentum especially with the Covid-19 pandemic, in today's design education and the opportunities they provide have enabled the workshop to be organised online. This workshop was planned to have two important missions in design education. First, to ensure that academicians and students from different design disciplines come together with an interdisciplinary approach; second, in order to create this unity, it is to produce an experiential way that can turn online platforms into channels that can serve design education. Online workshop, designed as one of the experiential learning activities, has enabled one to be open to new experiences, to reveal the advantages of working with different disciplines, to understand and experience different perspectives. Therefore, it is anticipated that the workshop will contribute to other studies in terms of both enriching design education and producing these collaborations through different channels. It is hoped that this study, which aims to disseminate the obtained products to a wider area and share information, will be inspiring and guiding for future applications.