Design Week gives architecture students the opportunity to branch out and meet other students in design-related majors.
The OSU chapter of the American Institute of Architecture Students hosts the event each spring semester.
Design Week is Monday through Saturday.
“Events like this help to really establish the family atmosphere that we have,” said Cody Utterback, the AIAS social chair and a third-year architecture student. “And with everything else, it’s good to have some stress relief. It’s nice that we can provide this for our peers.”
Architecture students enjoyed a cookout, which was the kickoff event for this year’s AIAS Design Week.
Jeremy Rogers, AIAS president and third-year architecture student said the group wants to involve all architecture students.
“We want to get all the architecture students to come together and to get acquainted,” he said. “We’re trying to build relationships with other organizations on campus that are design-related and get together with them to make the entire campus aware of design.”
During the cookout, AIAS officers grilled hamburgers and hot dogs as architecture students lined up for a free meal in front of the ATRC.
The organization invited all architecture students to the cookout.
Mohammed Bilbeisi, architecture associate professor, will host the next Design Week event, an advanced graphic workshop.
The workshop, which is a new event for Design Week, will be in the ATRC Vogt Room on Tuesday at 7 p.m.
Architecture students may attend. Alex Smith, a third-year architecture student, said he went to the cookout because it was a good time for students to hang out without worrying about classes.
It was also an opportunity for students to interact with faculty.
Randy Seitsinger, the head of the School of Architecture, attended.
Utterback said the cookout was a simple, visually enticing event to spread information about upcoming Design Week events.
There will be an event every day of Design Week. The events include a dodge ball tournament, movie night and a pig roast on Friday night as the final event.
Three new events, a potluck dinner during movie night, a viewing of an OSU architecture professor’s art exhibit and Bilbeisi’s graphic workshop are also on the agenda for Design Week.
The annual AIAS career fair provides most of the money for Design Week, but other AIAS fundraising events and the OSU Student Government Association also helped with funding.
Uttterback said Design Week’s main goal is to give students an opportunity to get out of the studio and interact with each other because architecture is very demanding and stressful.
Utterback also said that Design Week is a way to get the entire OSU campus aware of what AIAS is and the opportunities it can provide.
Rogers said that he hopes to add a Design Week in the fall semester, which would involve all design-related majors. Each day a different design-related major would sponsor an event, Rogers said. The annual spring Design Week would remain geared toward architecture students.
“In most schools, all design-related majors are in one building,” Rogers said. “But in our school, they’re separated clear across campus. So it’s an attempt to bring everyone together.”
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