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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#1 - Guiding,&nbsp;encouraging and inspiring students about non-corporate career paths.'''</span>&nbsp;
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#2 - Initiating, sustaining and&nbsp;developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.'''</span>&nbsp;
*PROJECT - A periodically updated “How to” and "Where to" website for Koc University - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017</span>
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*There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.
**An updated website that guides students through skill and goal related journeys.
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*PROJECT #1 - Slack - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017</span>
***Listing all the related courses, gatekeeper people and professors, affiliated organizations, student clubs and “inside information” about specific goals, skills, needs.
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**Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests
***''Example Case''
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*PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter
****''Student: I am interested in entrepreneurship but I don't know if I am a good fit. I don't know where to start.&nbsp;''''Where should I start entrepreneurship or design at Koc?'''''
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**Can be integrated to the website
****''Platform: You can start with this article from Steve Blank. How To Start a Startup Series are a very good source for getting to know what entrepreneurship really means. In Koc, you can take MGMT 411 and 412. Our university is also affiliated with KWORKS, an incubation center. There are also MAVA courses that introduce design thinking project mindset that is very helpful and related to starting a new venture. You can check MAVA 205. If you are also interested in social issues, you should check MAVA 420 and MGMT 311. Imece and Impact Hub are Istanbul-based social entrepreneurship hubs, you should look at their websites too.''&nbsp;
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*PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily&nbsp;
*PROJECT - A Startup career event - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">December 2017</span>
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**For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform
**Collaborating with career center, entrepreneurship club, marketing club, business administration club to gather 10+ startup founders with students to introduce succesful entrepreneurial career paths, hold pitch & innovation challenges with them.
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#3 -&nbsp;Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative&nbsp;socializing and wellbeing.'''</span>
*PROJECT - TEDx event focused on I&E
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*<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student life.
*PROJECT - Pitch competition
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*PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space
*PROJECT - Innovation challenge
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**Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.
*ALTERNATIVE PROJECTS&nbsp;
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**Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.
**A chatbot mobile application that creates instant answers from the website database
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**Sound isolation is terrible.
**Quarterly-revised handbook that lists all the information website has
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**There are no sockets.
***"A Creative’s Guide To Thrive at Koc University"</li>
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**Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.
 
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**Interior decoration is not inspiring.
 
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*PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017</span>
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#2 - Initiating, sustaining and&nbsp;developing a multi-disciplinary creative network.'''</span>&nbsp;
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*PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building. - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Spring 2017</span>
**There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#4 - Informing, promoting and integrating “social impact” in the campus.'''</span>&nbsp;
**PROJECT #1 - Slack - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">November 2017</span>
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*PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Ongoing</span>
***Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests
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**Not only GPA for students
**PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter
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**SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.
***Can be integrated to the website
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.'''</span>
**PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily&nbsp;
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*<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.
***For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform
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**Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#3 -&nbsp;Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative&nbsp;socializing and wellbeing.'''</span>
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''''#6 -&nbsp;''Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops,&nbsp;hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.'''</span>
**<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student life.
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*<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT - Community Space - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017 & Spring 2018</span>
**PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space
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<li><span style="font-size:large;">'''#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.'''</span>
***Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.
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*<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Certificate Program for school employees<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->
***Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.
 
***Sound isolation is terrible.
 
***There are no sockets.
 
***Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.
 
***Interior decoration is not inspiring.
 
**PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017</span>
 
**PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building. - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Spring 2017</span>
 
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#4 - Informing, promoting and integrating “social impact” in the campus.'''</span>&nbsp;
 
**PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Ongoing</span>
 
***Not only GPA for students
 
***SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.
 
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.'''</span>
 
**<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.
 
***Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.
 
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''''#6 -&nbsp;''Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops,&nbsp;hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.'''</span>
 
**<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT - Community Space - <span style="background-color:#ffff00;">Fall 2017 & Spring 2018</span>
 
*<span style="font-size:large;">'''#7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.'''</span>
 
**<span style="font-size:large;">'''​'''</span>PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Program for school employees<!--?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?-->
 

Revision as of 13:01, 23 October 2017

  • #2 - Initiating, sustaining and developing a multi-disciplinary creative network. 
    • There is this an urgent need for creative people coming from different disciplines to get to know each other and somehow interact.
    • PROJECT #1 - Slack - November 2017
      • Properly designed Slack group for entrepreneurial needs, inspiring articles, event announcements, feedback requests
    • PROJECT #2 - Creative Newsletter
      • Can be integrated to the website
    • PROJECT #3 - Redesigning KU Daily 
      • For a more individualized, interest-based communication platform
  • #3 - Redesigning the ineffective indoor and outdoor spaces in the campus to facilitate productive co-working, creative socializing and wellbeing.
    • For a spatially limited campus (meaning there are no free spaces around the campus to enlarge the area) efficiency of currently used areas are highly important for a comfortable, creative student life.
    • PROJECT #1 - Redesigning Yeni Nero space
      • Heart of the campus has the worst indoor design.
      • Furnitures are terribly old and dull, not allowing comfortable eating, working in groups and even having a enjoyable coffee break.
      • Sound isolation is terrible.
      • There are no sockets.
      • Even it is a large are at the heart of the school, it is not facilitated for workshops, artistic events.
      • Interior decoration is not inspiring.
    • PROJECT #2 - Building small transparent containers in the dormitory area - Fall 2017
    • PROJECT #3 - Designing empty spaces that will be created due to the moving of science labs to the new building. - Spring 2017
  • #4 - Informing, promoting and integrating “social impact” in the campus. 
    • PROJECT - Social Impact Quotient - Ongoing
      • Not only GPA for students
      • SIQ that measures each student’s impact on his community, campus and environment.
  • #5 - Facilitating online & offline intersections for the curriculum with new e-learning technologies, platforms, organizations.
    • PROJECT - Hybrid academic and skill-related e-learning certificate programs.
      • Connecting courses, e-learning platforms, organizations, clubs, companies and more with condensed certificate programs.
  • #6 - Designing and building a creative space that will allow multi-disciplinary collaboration, 7/24 co-working, organizing workshops, hosting maker projects, incubating student startups, intersecting with related courses for alternative educative methodologies.
    • PROJECT - Community Space - Fall 2017 & Spring 2018
  • #7 - Empowering administrative and academic staff with I&E related content, workshops, programs for creating a more coherent campus vision.
    • PROJECT IDEA - Global Learning and Leadership Certificate Program for school employees