Prompt 24: How Might the Context in Which Knowledge is Presented Influence Whether it is

Accepted or Rejected? (Venue: 2nd Floor 6-A)

Dhahran Ahliyya Schools

Bayader Khan

Knowledge is accepted when the context supports trust and existing beliefs, and rejected when it challenges them. This was investigated through examples where a historical document was interpreted differently, wartime information was dismissed due to distrust, and media credibility shaped public reaction. The conclusion reached was that acceptance depends less on accuracy and more on the audience’s relationship to the context of its presentation.

Prompt 31: How can we judge when evidence is adequate?(Venue: 2nd Floor 6-B)

Dhahran Ahliyya Schools

Bayyinah Alshaalan

Adequate evidence is judged through a balance of reliability, validity, and shared standards rather than quantity or certainty. This was investigated through a Supreme Court judgment, a COVID- 19 vaccination certificate, and my TOK textbook, each revealing different ways evidence is

tested and accepted. The conclusion reached was that adequacy depends on context and the frameworks used to evaluate truth claims across disciplines.

Prompt: Who owns knowledge? (Venue: 2nd Floor 6-C)

Dhahran Ahliyya Schools

Farah Saad Almulhim

Knowledge is first shaped by others (authors, family, etc...) before we make it our own. Second Some knowledge, like humanitarian medical expertise, moves freely across borders for human benefit. Third is historical and political powers can own knowledge by deciding what is recorded, mapped, or prioritized, showing that knowledge changes with those in control. In each object shows a different owner.

Prompt 22: What role do experts play in influencing our consumption or acquisition of knowledge?

(Venue: 2nd Floor 6-D)

Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions

Elif Defne Ulusoy

This TOK Exhibition investigates the question “What role do experts play in influencing our consumption or acquisition of knowledge?” through three diverse objects: Turkey’s 2023 inflation report published by TÜİK, a page from Erik Jan Zürcher’s Modernleşen Türkiye

Tarihi, and Bedri Baykam’s Art History Map. Together, these objects illustrate how expert interpretation shapes public understanding across economic, historical, and artistic fields. The exhibition examines how statistical institutions frame economic reality, how historians’

narratives influence collective memory and identity, and how an artist-historian’s perspective shapes our understanding of cultural development. By analyzing how expertise affects the accessibility, framing, and reliability of knowledge, the exhibition highlights the power and

limitations of expert authority.

Prompt 11: Can new knowledge change established values and beliefs? (Venue: 2nd Floor 6-E)

Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions

Beren Gönüldaş

Within this exhibition this prompt will be explored by reflecting on knowledge and its role in shaping human beliefs and values. To be more specific, whether knowledge can reshape deeply perceived and rooted ideologies or not by using three distinct objects: a protest sign about CO2, the book Silent Spring and a statue of Churchill. Knowledge has always played an essential role in forming human values and beliefs. Sometimes, new information can challenge and ultimately change traditions and beliefs that are long standing by upending it. But also in other cases, change or in other words the acceptance of new knowledge can be impeded by factors like external influences and deeply ingrained beliefs and ideologies.

PROMPT 21: What is the relationship between knowledge and culture?  (Venue: 2nd Floor 7-A)

Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions

Melis Ece Sarı 

This TOK Exhibition examines how the cultural context shapes the creation, interpretation, and transmission of knowledge through three objects: Japanese dining etiquette, the Turkish evil eye, and the March 1966 Vogue cover featuring Donyale Luna. These objects together demonstrate that knowledge is never culturally neutral; rituals, beliefs, and aesthetic values determine what is meaningful, respectful, or beautiful to a community. The exhibition examines embodied practices such as chopstick etiquette relying upon shared cultural symbolism, how protective beliefs such as the nazar gather meaning from collective tradition, and how fashion media reflect and reshape cultural understandings of identity and representation. Through these examples, it argues that culture acts as a lens through which knowledge is formed, interpreted, and transformed. 

Prompt 31: How can we judge when evidence is adequate?  (Venue: 2nd Floor 7-B)

Eyüboğlu Educational Institutions

Ali Teoman Tunalı

This TOK Exhibition explores how one can judge when evidence may be adequate through various examples. OJ Simpsons Leather gloves from the OJ Simpson case, Anne Frank's diary from the 1930 under the Nazi regime. and The 1932 Lindbergh Kidnapping Ransom Note. By examining what properties of said objects count towards evidence, I wish to see what qualifies something as ‘’evidence’’ and henceforth, an ‘’adequate one’’. I plan to highlight the importance of qualitative evidence with OJ Simpson's glove despite strong quantitative evidence, while highlighting the importance of human touch with Anne Frank's diary and through the ransom note, I plan to highlight how flawed methodology can undermine even the strongest quantitative evidence.

Prompt 17: Why do we seek knowledge? 

  (Venue: 2nd Floor 7-C)

Jelgava Spidola State Gymnasium

Kristiāna Spilnere

This TOK exhibition explores the complex question regarding a person’s seemingly natural curiosity with the help of 3 objects: a box, a history textbook, and a telescope. The box represents the natural curiosity humans possess, the desire to immediately discover something we don’t know and see for the first time. The history textbook represents passed down knowledge and how people seek out their roots to understand themselves better. The telescope represents the unknown, how people want to discover things beyond their existence.