Vocational School of Justice
RECYCLING WASTE MATERIALS THROUGH DESIGN
Waste papers, waste fabrics, pieces of waste wood are all being recycled. Lecturers and students of Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), made notebooks, necklaces, pencil holders, lambs, dolls, bags out of waste materials they obtained from ‘zone’ cleaning. The products will be exhibited in March, afterwards they will be on sale, and the income will be used to establish a library and an activity room in a village school.
Didem Kan Kılıç, Lecturer, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, reported that they formed a Social Responsibility Project Group, and she said, “We started out collecting waste materials from the project left overs within the faculty. We did a zone cleaning and collected waste papers mainly. We focused on the recycling principle”.
The Group consisted of Lecturers Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahar Durmaz, Asst. Prof. Dr. Burkay Pasin, Asst. Prof. Dr. Şölen Kipöz, Jörn Fröchlich, Asst. Prof. Dr. Dilek Himam Er, Asst. Prof. Dr. Güzden Varinlioğlu, Michael Edward Young, Selin Gülden, İpek Kaştaş Uzun, Ece Küreli, Elif Tekcan, Argun Tanrıverdi, and student volunteers, indicated Kılıç, and she said materials tossed aside were recycled to be used again. Kılıç, who pointed that they used the power of design when recycling, stated the following:
“Our designs will be exhibited at the “Higher Consciousness – Acquisition” titled exhibition under the name of ‘Collective Movement’ on March 20 at Ahmed Adnan Saygun Art Center. After the exhibition, we will hold a sales event. The funds from this event will be used to design an activity room and a library for a village school. We, as academicians and designers, focus our energy and skills on social designs. And we believe in the power of design in this sense. We aim to establish a sustainable support platform across the campus with the slogan of Go into Action.”