Collaborative Work of Different Design Disciplines in a Design Project: Söğütlüçeşme “Hub” Project

Interdisciplinary is becoming the main part of knowledge production in universities as it is in professional life. Due to the multi-faceted character of design regarding to its concern with various fields such as economics, marketing, psychology, sociology, interdisciplinary studies play a very important role during the design process. Beside those fields product design by its own correlate with many other design fields, such as interior architecture, graphic design and so on. In this paper, the “HUB project”, which is the collaborative work of undergraduate students of Interior Architecture and Industrial Product Design programs, will be presented. The aim of the project was solving the environmental and social problems around a transportation area. To achieve this goal, project groups submitted design solutions and projects in accordance with the interviews, photoshoots, surveys. In this paper, the findings of that research, design solutions of the groups and the outcomes of collaborative work will be evaluated in the context of student works and the collaboration of two graduate programs in the same faculty.