Eskişehir Osmangazi University (ESOGÜ), College of Art & Design is a governmental University of higher education, located in Eskişehir, Turkey. The final and third PiCoDe workshop took place in Eskişehir Osmangazi University, College of Art and Design (Turkey) with a group of students and teachers from Portugal, Poland, Turkey and USA, who worked on the design and prototype of a new product, primarily made from a local material called meerschaum.
The last PiCoDe workshop had been organized by Bilge Kınam, Associate Professor at Visual Communication Design Department at Eskişehir Osmangazi University. As the hosting institution, ESOGÜ provided a large classroom and facility for the workshop activities, including materials and equipment to design, develop and make potential products for this workshop.
External collaborators were invited to give course about the culture of Eskişehir and technical information about the local material in the PiCoDe project. The first three days of the intensive program aimed to understand the history of Eskişehir with the leader from Eskişehir Tourism and Promotion Association’s Chair İrfan Ongar’s Eskişehir presentation and Meerschaum workshop lead by meerschaum artist Talat Ürersoy.