EDUCATOR
Trakya, Türkiye
Design for Pollinators: SDGs Awareness Workshop
EDUCATOR
Trakya, Türkiye
Design for Pollinators: SDGs Awareness Workshop
Project Team
Dr Emel Baylan
Dr Sergun Dayan
Dr Emine Çoban Şahin
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An interdisciplinary design workshop where architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture students designed insect hotels, translating ecological awareness and pollination knowledge into tangible spatial interventions supporting biodiversity and responsibility goals.
Overview
As part of the Architecture Faculty’s Sustainable Development Goals–focused orientation program, this design and education project explores how small-scale spatial interventions can raise ecological awareness. Through an interdisciplinary insect hotel workshop, students from architecture, interior architecture, and landscape architecture—with limited prior knowledge of pollination and insect habitats— collaboratively designed and constructed habitats for pollinators. Ecological concepts were translated into tangible artifacts and shared through a faculty exhibition as part of the project festival. With hands-on making and public display, the project fostered critical reflection on relationships between the built environment, natural processes, and non-human living systems, positioning design education as a tool for environmental awareness and responsibility.
Institution
Trakya University
Community Engagement
Through a faculty exhibition, theproject engaged students, academics, administrators, local authorities, and civil society organizations in Edirne. The insect hotels raised awareness on pollination and biodiversity and will be installed across university campuses in spring to extend community engagement
Partners
Initiated by Trakya University’s Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture, the project was funded by the university, with minor instructor contributions.
