Dear Graduates,

As our department continues its journey with new expansions, bolstered by the five-year accreditation received at the very beginning of its third decade, you are transitioning into the professional world by gaining the strongest acceleration of your educational life. Our theme for this year, Momentum, represents not just a state of motion, but that unstoppable power created by the knowledge, experience, and effort you have accumulated over four years.

From the abstract studies in the first year of your undergraduate education to the creation of biophilic environments, the design of public interiors, and innovative projects that foresee the future, you have contributed to this impetus with every work you produced. This solid accumulation, formed through compulsory and elective courses as well as your voluntary initiatives, has transformed into a potential energy capable of transforming society and enhancing the welfare of humanity.

Today, each of you sets out with this momentum behind you as designers with high intellectual capacity and a sense of social responsibility. Your graduation will not sever our bond, on the contrary, with the momentum you have gained, it will open the doors to new collaborations that we will realize together in professional life.

As you advance toward new horizons with this great energy, I wish you all infinite success.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Ergül,

Head of Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design