As IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, consisting of Architecture, Textile and Fashion Design, Industrial Design, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and Visual Communication Design departments, we have prepared a digital catalog for our 2023 graduates. In this catalog, which we believe will enable the exhibition of graduation projects as well as the sharing of student portfolios on professional platforms in Turkey and around the world at the same time, and the promotion of our faculty and students' work, this catalog contains two- and three-dimensional visuals and videos of the graduation projects of approximately 200 students who will graduate from our faculty this year. We determined CONNECTED as the main theme of the graduation projects exhibition and digital catalog we prepared for our 2023 semester graduates who have experienced education systems such as online and hybrid the most and challenged these difficulties throughout their education lives, and we wanted to focus on the concepts that connect our students. With this theme, we also emphasized our commitment to each other after a very difficult period. Together with our creative and dynamic team working throughout the year for preparations, we collected the themes and keywords of all graduation projects and asked ChatGPT, a generative language model based on artificial intelligence, to gather these concepts under common headings and define these topics. And finally we reached the five main topics that make up the CONNECTED theme: 'posthuman', 'resilience', 'diversity', 'care & dialogue', and finally 'destination'. Based on these topics, the visual identity we created for the CONNECTED theme shows that all departments in our faculty work in an interdisciplinary manner. On Wednesday, June 21, we will hold the Graduation Exhibition and Fashion Show, as well as open our digital catalog. On behalf of the IEU Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, I congratulate all our students and graduates and wish them success in their education and professional life.

Prof. Ender YAZGAN BULGUN Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Dean