PUDCAD E5
Universal Design Practices Conference V_Game and Education II, Istanbul, Turkey, May 2020

The conference will be a closure and promoting event for PUDCAD. Since it will be closing conference, it will be open to design schools including both students and tutors, relevant stakeholders and professionals from different areas of expertise.

The aim of this conference and its' activities is related with project outcomes. The conference and its' activities are focused on the dissemination and promotion of the game and launching of E-learning courses. The conference is designed specifically with a structure that would create a hub which embraces and collects all the related work and project outcomes.

This Conference will be combined with C8 and C13 workshop activities. The results of the workshops will be presented in an exhibition at the conference and multiplied over the project's website and other relevant professional social networks and media. Besides the students from ITU, students from the partner universities will take part. As a part of the C8 student workshops, students from different disciplines will be targeted as well: i.e. Students of Hacettepe Ergotherapy Department will be reached via video conference and distance learning tools. During C13 teaching at student workshops tutors will be showcasing the game and training the students, introducing case studies carried out on Universal Design in education environments and explaining the methodology of the game as the main output of the educational program of PUDCAD. Especially the interdisciplinary input of the different partners will be highlighted in the workshops. The publication of the results and the final exhibition not only will show the design of the projects but the process and methodology will be main focus.