会议时间：2015年3月21—23日
会议地点：土耳其•埃斯基谢希尔市RIXOS酒店会议厅
演讲嘉宾：Ilker USTA，土耳其哈西德佩大学教授

摘要：Wood is a natural material harvested from the trees. Wood is therefore an organic material having hygroscopic behaviour and its own anisotropic characteristics. There are distinctive features of wood as a material, so that wood has the specific anatomical and chemical structures, and both physical and mechanical properties. These features have made wood a universal material as particularly preferred and widely used material from the beginning of mankind. It has been used for thousands of years as a construction material, and for both production of goods and in the manufacture of tools and equipment. In this context, wood is important in our daily lives as a material alone or as a complement, and hence wood is a valuable object for each of us. Based on all of the above, wood is an intercultural interaction tool since the beginning of civilization.

Wood is an indispensable passion for us in the case of complementary material of organic lifestyle which is coming forward today with a worldwide view. Now that wood is a substantial natural material, it is time the introduction of wood to society. At this point, a new elective course named “Importance of Wood in Intercultural Interaction” was designed to introduce for all undergraduate students of Hacettepe University, within the framework of the curriculum of the department of Wood Products Industrial Engineering, which has been updated within the scope of Bologna Process.

With this course, designed by a woodlover viewpoint for the first time in our country, it is aimed to sample the role of wood in intercultural interaction through informing students about the role/importance of wood in intercultural interaction and introducing its phenomenal construction in various cultures through descriptions in order to raise awareness about wood, a natural material. The implications forming a basis for these depictions are internalized with professional/technical knowledge and in these depictions that are made with a woodlover approach; certain theoretical explanations to strengthen wood awareness and general depictions to introduce wood (considered as an exquisite natural material in intercultural interaction) are made.

This article provides information about this new course in wood.

Ilker USTA先生是土耳其土耳其哈西德佩大学（Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey）木制品工业工程系教授。他的研究领域涉及木材防腐、木材物理、木材工艺学和木结构。Ilker USTA先生也是国际木材保护研究组织IRG的成员。

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