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Search for a new metafunctional education pattern in basic design studios after the COVID-19 pandemic
(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi Faculty of Architecture, 2025) Fatma İpek Ek; Deniz Engin; Gülçin Öçel; Aysu Püskülcü Aydin; Zeynep Bavunoğlu; Öçel, Gülçin; Ek, Fatma İpek; Püskülcü Aydin, Aysu; Engin, Deniz; Bavunoğlu, Zeynep
After the COVID-19 pandemic basic design studios given in the first year of architectural education in Turkey have undergone a new accelerating process based on using physical design techniques with digitalization. The current study proposes a new curriculum that integrates the ideational interpersonal and (con)textual metafunctions of language into basic design learning to facilitate the integration of physical and digital tools. It was applied in the first semester of the basic design curriculum through face-to-face education. At the end of the term we surveyed first-year students to learn about the positive and negative aspects of making designs in physical and digital environments. The results demonstrated that they are undecided and have some hesitations in representing their design ideas physically while they are relatively confident of the advantages of designing in the digital environment. However although 3D representation has become easier with the use of digital tools and students’ digital representation skills have improved it has also been observed that students’ perceptions and understanding of 3D and spatiality have not improved at the same rate. © 2025 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
The Mapping of Sensemaking Territories Through Physical and Social Media: A Case of the Historical Bazaar of Kemeraltı Izmir
(Chulalongkorn University - Faculty of Architecture, 2024) Ömer Can Bakan; Deniz Engin; Fatma İpek Ek; Ek, Fatma İpek; Engin, Deniz; Bakan, Ömer Can
The paper aims to analyze and make visible the intertwined layers of a palimpsest territory such as the historical bazaar of Kemeraltı in Izmir Turkey through the lens of architecture students concerning their perceptions of producing Instagrammable visual data to influence and attract the prospective visitors and to compensate the lack of interest in the bazaar as mentioned by local institutions. Through this analysis we also aim to conduct a methodological experiment that recognizes social media as a cognitive tool by combining digital and physical representations. The study encompasses a one-month workshop for students of the visualization in an elective architecture course. The technique of theme-based cognitive mapping both in the space of places and the space of flows in Manuel Castells’ sense was utilized to investigate how the students perceive the historical and socio-cultural qualities of the region through different realms. The workshop briefs were accompanied by Instagram hashtag research and the design of visual journals consisting of the photographs and videos taken by the students to share their influencer/sensemaker routes specific to the selected themes. The students tailored various influencer/sensemaker roles and generated place-based scenarios in combination with the themes. Ultimately Kemeraltı’s multifaceted genius could be reflected on cognitive and sensory grounds through digital and physical cognitive maps social media journals and analyses. It was observed that the students could integrate the intersubjective character of the readily presented data on social media into the subjective and authentic character of the data produced mindfully on the site. © 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.