IN-PERSON: Learning. Life. Work
Abstract
Digital media tools have been integrated into design education as in many other fields. Digital media tools such as virtual spaces, electronic learning tools, and social media have become an inevitable part of traditional design education. The combination of traditional methods and digital tools in design studios, which is a major part of design education, has created an important intersection; thus, studio training has evolved into a hybrid system. It is inevitable to encounter new problems in the process of integrating studio education, which continues with traditional methods, into digital change. This research aims to examine the potential and problems of hybrid design education in terms of architectural design studios. In line with the purpose of the study, it is aimed to examine the use of digital media in terms of students and studio executives in an architectural design studio that maintains the traditional education model. It is also aimed to determine the tendencies of students and studio executives to use digital media tools, the meaning of digital tools in studio education in terms of students and studio executives, their contribution to education, and their conveniences and difficulties in the traditional model. Similarly, it is aimed to investigate the students’ thoughts on the methods and the attitudes and behaviors of studio executives in the hybrid system. In the research, semi-structured interviews will be conducted with twenty architectural design undergraduate students and ten studio executives. The data obtained from both the students and the studio executives will be compared and analyzed.
Hasane Ceren Cindioglu is a Ph.D. candidate at Atılım University, Department of Architecture. She graduated from Gazi University, Department of Architecture in 2016. She received her master’s degree from Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture in 2019. She is working as a research assistant at Atilim University in the Department of Architecture since 2017. Her main research interests are immersive virtual environments, game-based learning, gamification, design education, design thinking, and human-computer interaction.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emel Akin. She works as a lecturer at Atilim University, Department of Architecture. In addition to her academic publications, scientific research projects and postgraduate thesis consultancy, she has been a jury member in architectural project competitions. Her research areas are architectural design, the relationship between housing and culture, the city and space in the process of social change, and the political economy of space. In recent years, she has been working in the fields of virtual spaces, and digitalization in architectural education.
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Tuesday 11th June, 2024