BUCREA - Boğaziçi University Creativity Lab

 BUCREA - Boğazi Boğaziçi University Creativity Lab (BUCREA) is one of Bright's sub-student societies and the first. It was created by Haluk Ziya Tercan, a graduate of the Fire-Up Program and Fellow of the Stanford University UIF Program, as a result of Bright's desire to host communities to be established through initiatives in different verticals. Bright strives to support these communities, meet their essential needs, and ensure their development.

  BUCREA focuses on creativity, innovation, and the desire to create change that traditional student communities lack. It has adopted different approaches from traditional communities. Its approach is structured in three phases:

1. Fields of Experience: With fields of experience, students gain knowledge by trying new technologies, approaches, methods, and tools. They interact directly with what they have learned.

2. Creativity: As a result of the new information learned, the potential connections that can be established in the mind are increased, and creativity is developed.

3. Change:  Problems encountered with developing creativity can be viewed from different perspectives. Bright provides support with project development, and change is initiated.

BUCREA also strives to create a participatory, initiative-based structure by eliminating the hierarchical board mechanism that organizes and controls events in traditional student societies. For this reason, the experience areas of BUCREA are not a team of a few people, but each community participant. Each participant designs and presents experience areas that can be applied quickly in an area they know well or in the area they want to improve themselves even if they don't.

  Having revealed its philosophy in its first year, BUCREA attracted the attention of 200 students in two months and enabled them to participate in communication channels. In the 12 experience areas organized, it achieved an average of 20 participants. The feedback from BUCREA will renew itself and will strive to strengthen the creativity muscles.