Outputs & Outcomes

RE-PUBLIC Workshop is expected to

• Encourage students to develop their knowledge and skills in analytical thinking while integrating theory, policy and practice
• Increase the knowledge-base about public space evaluation, place making and multicultural approaches to public space through lecture series, field studies and discussion sessions
• Learn how to analyse urban environment and develop design ideas and understanding the needs of the various users and different cultures.
• Increase the skills on conducting interactive and theoretical research and hands-on practice while enabling students and instructors to work together and exchange views in resolving universal problems
• Encourage students and instructors to attain values including social cohesion, citizenship, sustainable communities, intercultural dialogue, etc.
• Increase the volume and quality of interdisciplinary cooperation between higher education institutions and multinational teaching as the basis of future collaborations.

ECTS: The students participating in RE-PUBLIC will be granted 3 ECTS credits upon the agreement of recognition issues.

Expected outputs of the RE-PUBLIC Workshop are:

• Power-point presentation on the results of the interactive research and planning process
• Thematic workshop reports providing guidelines for future development to be presented to the cities that will thus benefit from the research

• The final workshop results will also be included in the website as an e-book for the public.
• A geographic web platform: a knowledge-base with an integrated learning/mapping tool reflecting different stages of the workshop
• Exhibitions during the World Planning Day and the 2^nd Istanbul Design Biennal [November-December]
• [The format of the exhibition materials will be announced later]