Sabancı University is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a special exhibition. The exhibition "Living Memories: A 25-Year Retrospective", prepared using artificial intelligence technologies, opened on May 6 at the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center (SGM) foyer area on the Sabancı University Tuzla Campus.
The opening ceremony of the exhibition was held with the participation of Sabancı University Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı and Sabancı University President Yusuf Leblebici, as well as faculty members, graduates, students, and employees.
“25 years of great value and full of effort…”
Sabancı University Founding Chair of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı, who made the opening speech of the exhibition, said, “25 years may be a short time in terms of university history, but for us it has been 25 years of great value and full of effort. We have accumulated many memories and photographs on this journey, but the most valuable ones are our graduates, students, and academics, whom we add to each year. When we look back today, we see with pleasure that we have achieved many of our goals. Of course, new goals need to be set after each goal. This is also a result of the desire to do better. For this reason, we have an unchanging motto: ‘Creating and developing together.’ The “Living Memories: A 25-Year Retrospective” exhibition is also a product of this understanding. With the frames collected from faculties and centers, we remember this journey we all embarked on together. I am happy to make such a meaningful start to our 25th year celebrations, and I would like to thank everyone who contributed.”
“We continue on our way with the motivation of the first day”
Sabancı University President Yusuf Leblebici said, “It is a great success to bring a university from scratch to the present day. When we brought our first students to this campus in 1999, we understood even better how valuable this adventure that started under difficult conditions is. The students of that period and our students and graduates who came after are today in the world’s leading universities and companies, and in the highest-level positions. Today, we continue on our way with the motivation of the first day. We are just at the beginning of the road. We are raising our goals higher every day. I would like to thank the entire team who prepared this meaningful exhibition reflecting the 25-year journey of our university.”
Following the opening ceremony, which was attended by a large number of people, Güler Sabancı signed her book ‘Founding a University’, in which she wrote the story of the establishment of Sabancı University, published in Turkish and English, for the guests.
Sabancı University’s 25-year memory processed with artificial intelligence
The “Living Memories: A 25-Year Retrospective” exhibition offers a broad perspective covering the foundation story of Sabancı University from 25 years ago to the present day, campus life, student and graduate achievements, and outstanding work in the fields of science and art. Prepared with content collected from the university’s faculties, research centers, and units, the exhibition was created by processing the content with artificial intelligence models. In the exhibition, the milestones of Sabancı University, which was born from the dream of establishing a ‘world university’ in 1999 and made a difference with its unique education model, are conveyed with both original documents, archive materials and memories animated with artificial intelligence technologies.
