The “AI x Design: Envisioning the Future of Mediterranean Urban Regions” Workshop

by Jun 24, 2026

The “AI x Design: Envisioning the Future of Mediterranean Urban Regions”  workshop, a collaboration between Istanbul Technical University (ITU) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), was hosted by ITU at the Taşkışla Campus from June 1–10, 2026.

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The workshop explored the creation of techno-ecological systems through environmental design. The goal was to propose designs that enhance the historical and ecological characteristics of the unique Golden Horn landscape by integrating AI tools throughout various stages of the design process starting from data gathering, analyzing to design ideation and iteration processes.

Three multidisciplinary groups, comprising participants from different academic levels across both universities, developed unique design proposals for two selected sites.

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ITU Department of Landscape Architecture

 

Vision

To train contemporary landscape architects who are open to national and international cooperation, whose contributions to the country and universal science are increasing day by day, who transfer natural and cultural values to future societies, who follow and apply contemporary design concepts and developing landscape technology, who have a respectable and unique place among other departments providing landscape architecture education, with an innovative program that continuously improves quality.

 

Mission

The aim of the programme is to train professionals and scientists who are self-renewing, who have adopted contemporary scientific and critical thinking, who can develop original ideas and have the ability to apply them, who produce for the sustainability of living spaces in different scales and contents by considering professional ethics and environmental sensitivity, and who are guiding and pioneering in the interdisciplinary lane.

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