İÇT327

School of Architecture and Design \ Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

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Turkish

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Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Bachelor's Degree Program

Elements of environmental and spatial psychology are discussed and the impact of design on the individual and society is discussed. An infrastructure is created by examining the approaches of active scientists in the field to environmental psychology; current and emerging contemporary design approaches of the course are discussed within the scope of interior architecture.

Ittelson, W. H., Proshansky, H. M., Rivlin, L. G., & Winkel, G. H. (1974). An introduction to environmental psychology. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
Altman, I. (2019). Amos Rapoport: Scholar, Conscience and Citizen of the Environment and Behavior Field. In Culture-Meaning-Architecture (pp. 37-52). Routledge.
Gürkaynak, İ. (1988). ÇEVRESEL PSİKOLOJİ: DOĞASI, TARİHÇESİ, YÖNTEMLERİ. Ankara University Journal of Faculty of Educational Sciences (JFES), 21(1), 1-9.
Gür, Ş. Ö. (1996). Mekan örgütlenmesi. Gür Yayıncılık.
Rapoport, A. (1990). The meaning of the built environment: A nonverbal communication approach. University of Arizona Press.
Bozdayı, M (2004) İç Mekan ve İnsan, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları.

The main objective of the course is to introduce the main critical issues in human and environmental interaction. Through different researches within the scope of the psychology of space and environment, we will discuss the influence of physical space on behavior and how it depends on the social dimensions of the same space.

1. Gains awareness of cultural requirements in physiological (ergonomics) and psychological dimensions.
2. Gains awareness in ecological and sociological dimension.
3. Gains a perspective on interdisciplinary design approaches.
4. To gain the ability to interpret design and human behavior.
5. develop an intellectual perspective on current design approaches

Week 1: Introduction to the course, sharing of course content and methodology.
Week 2: Definition and components of “environment” The emergence of “Environmental Psychology” as a discipline, Basic Assumptions of Environmental Psychology
Week 3: Environmental Perception, Micro-Mezzo-Macro Environment, Spatial Image Concept, Mental Representations, Cognitive Maps, Physical, Conceptual and Symbolic dimensions of Environmental Psychology
Week 4: Determination of the Structure and User Group to be studied in the Course
Week 5: Human Dimensions Human and Behavior: Physical - Social Environment , Personal Space, Privacy, Territorial Defense, Crowd Concepts
Week 6: Environment and Color Perception, Sensory Perception, Illusion in Perception
Week 7: MIDTERM
Week 8: Contemporary Design Approaches and Theories (Design and Emotion, Experience Design, Evidence-Based Design, etc.) Group 1
Week 9: Contemporary Design Approaches and Theories (Design and Emotion, Experience Design, Evidence-Based Design, etc.) Group 2
Week 10: Contemporary Design Approaches and Theories (Design and Emotion, Experience Design, Evidence-Based Design, etc.) Group 3
Week 11: General Evaluation
Week 12: FINAL

• Midterm 40 %
• Final 50 %
• Participation 10 %