2018-19 Spring Semester Courses and Schedule Are Announced
You may find the documents in the for students page.
Available Positions for Research Assistants
The call can be found here in Turkish.
The Global Studio 2018: Local Mobilities
The Global Studio is a cross-institutional design course that aims to provide students with skills for working in cross-cultural and geographically distributed work groups. In the course, teams of students in different universities are paired to work together on design projects to act as clients and designers for one another. [...]
UTAK 2018 is concluded
The third of our National Design Research Conference (UTAK) had been concluded. The conference took place in METU Culture and Convention Center between 12 and 14 September, 2018. We would like to thank all our participants and stakeholders for making this great conference happen, once again. See Conferences page for [...]
STS Turkey 2018 is concluded
STS Turkey Conference, co-hosted by our department and METU Tekpol (Science and Technology Policy Studies) had been concluded. The conference took place in METU Culture and Convention Center between 10 and 11 September, 2018. Visit the conference website for more information: ststurkey.net/ststurkey2018-en
Let’s Design Together: Apply for ID 403 Collaborative Design
This semester in ID403 Collaborative Design course we collaborate with Department of Food Engineering and Orhan Irmak Design. We invite undergraduate and master's students from Departments of Industrial Design, Food Engineering and Business Administration to our course, in which we will focus on innovative package design for "food away from [...]
Call for Tracks: DRS LEARN X DESIGN 2019
Call for Tracks DRS LEARN X DESIGN 2019 Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers 9-12 July 2019, METU, Ankara We are happy to announce that Middle East Technical University Department of Industrial Design is hosting the DRS Learn X Design 2019: Fifth International Conference for Design Education Researchers between 9-12 July 2019. [...]
UTAK 2016 – 2. National Design Research Conference
UTAK 2016, 2nd National Design Research Conference will be held between 21-23 September at Middle East Technical University. We hope to come together for sharing works carried out in the field of design, within the themes ‘Responsibility, Context, Experience and Design’. For further details, the conference website can be accessed [...]
In its 29th General Assembly, ICSID Changed its name to “World Design Organisation” and redefined “Industrial Design”
In the 29th ICSID General Assembly, which took place between October 17th-18th, 2015 in Gwangju, South Korea, radical decisions were made from changing the name of the institution to re-defining industrial design. Prof. Dr. Gülay Hasdoğan attended to the general assembly to represent our department. ICSID changed its name to [...]