DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research is a free, open access, scholarly international, e-journal considers original research articles, critics, book reviews in peer-reviewed.

The international academic DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research publishes discussions on aesthetics from various creative disciplines related to the built environment, including architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, spatial design, virtual reality, design technology, urban planning, sustainable cities, architectural engineering, inter/multi-disciplinary research, and other relevant fields.

The journal questions worldwide interactions and relationships with aesthetics in design and planning. Discussing the role of aesthetics in today and the future is also one of the strong aims of the journal. The journal integrating research, practice and education seeks to develop theoretical and methodological foundations by discovering innovative methods and techniques. Approach focus of DEPARCH is the design and built matters that shape and condition the architecture. Moreover, aesthetics in architectural research, including its reflection both in perception and in practice, will be addressed through theoretical discussion, methodological and empirical studies, and built environment practices in this journal. Architecture and aesthetics touch on philosophy, environmental psychology, humanity, history, conservation, heritage, culture, etc. DEPARCH brings together aesthetics within the design and planning to create innovative and sustainable environments for the architecture of the future. As long as the paper is relevant to the built environment, authors are not restricted to sending articles on the mentioned themes. 

DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research also welcomes research articles that can lead to these objectives:

• to support using and application of technologies to both improve and conserve built environment
• to question the role of the architects, designers and other design fields as industrial design, spatial design, urban and landscape planning, architectural engineering, inter/multi-disciplinary research in forming built environment
• to reduce the environmental impacts to achieve sustainable built environment
• to evaluate the indoor built environment quality (visual performance, thermal, acoustic) and its effects on human comfort

Articles should disclose original data that has not been previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts deemed suitable for DEPARCH submission rules, and the scope of the journal are sent for scientific evaluation to at least two referees who are experts in their fields. Discussing its suitability, DEPARCH Editorial Board members then consider reviewers' comments on each submission. The final decision for all submitted manuscripts rests with the Editor-in-Chief. The Editorial Board of DEPARCH undertakes to comply with the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) criteria.

Audience
Architects, Designers, Planners, Interior Architects, Landscape Architects, Environmental Planners, Industrial Product Designers, as well as professionals, academics, experts, researchers, graduate students as well as students related to this field.

Subject Category

Art & Humanities: Architecture
Social Sciences: Urban Studies, Environmental Studies, Cultural Studies, Education&Educational Research

Keywords: Architecture, Aesthetics, Built Environment, Interiors, Environmental Psychology, Psychology of Place, Conservation, Cultural Heritage, Cultural Studies, Design, Education, Design Technology, etc.

Publication Language

Full Text Publication Language
• Primary Language: English
• Secondary Language: Turkish (Abstract Only)

Content Written in English and Latin Alphabet

• Article Title: English &Turkish
• Author's Name: English &Turkish (Latin Alphabet)
• Author's Address: English & Turkish (in Latin Alphabet)
• Keywords: English &Turkish (in Latin Alphabet)
• Bibliography: English 

Full Text: English

Article Submissions
Submitted articles should be in accordance with the purpose and scope of DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research. Manuscripts that are original, unpublished and not in the process of evaluation in another journal, whose content and submission have been approved by each author, are accepted for evaluation.

Wage Policy
The publication of articles and the execution of article processes in DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research are free of charge. No processing fee or submission fee is charged for articles submitted to the journal or accepted for publication. DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research also does not accept sponsorship and advertisement due to its publication policies. All expenses of DEPARCH are covered by Selcuk University Rectorate.

Copyright
The copyrights of the works published in DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research belong to their authors. The authors allow the intellectual work they submit to be published by DEPARCH under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license.

Originality of Articles
DEPARCH Journal of Design, Planning and Aesthetics Research does not accept work previously published elsewhere.

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