A Comparison of Interior Aesthetic Pleasure: Differences Between Interior Architecture First-Year and Upper-Year Students

Year 2024, Volume: 7 Issue: 1, 276 - 297, 19.04.2024

Zeyca Örer Söğüt , Guler Ufuk Demırbas

https://doi.org/10.37246/grid.1396769

Abstract

The professions of interior architecture necessitate the integration of both aesthetics and functionality. Therefore, these concepts are deeply embedded in the university education process. The first step on this educational path is taking the basic design studio course which aims students to start developing critical and abstract thinking skills in the design process. It would contribute to the literature to examine how far students are able to develop their aesthetic evaluations in the first year of university education. Therefore, we conducted the study to investigate if there is a difference in aesthetic evaluations of interiors between students who have just started their interior architecture education and students who have completed their first year. Examining how students' aesthetic evaluations for interior design evolve over the course of their interior architecture education provides valuable insights into design education. The results illustrated that there is a significant difference between evaluations of aesthetic pleasure and novelty. The students who finished the first year have less aesthetic pleasure and novelty scores than the students who just started their university education. The first year of education may reduce aesthetic appreciation because basic design education aims to teach students to think critically.

Keywords

Aesthetic pleasure, Basic Design course, Interior Architecture education, the APID scale

İç Mekan Estetik Memnuniyetin Karşılaştırılması: İç Mimarlık Birinci Sınıf ve Üst Sınıf Öğrencileri Arasındaki Farklılıklar

Abstract

İç mimarlık mesleği, hem estetik hem de işlevselliğin bütünleştiği bir alandır. Bu nedenle, bu kavramlar üniversite eğitim süreci boyunca derinlemesine işlenmektedir. Bu eğitimin ilk yılında, öğrencilerin tasarıma eleştirel bakabilme ve soyut düşünme becerilerini geliştirmeye başlamalarını amaçlayan temel tasarım stüdyosu dersleri yer almaktır. Öğrencilerin estetik değerlendirmelerini ne kadar geliştirebildiklerini ölçmek ve analiz etmek temel tasarım eğitimi literatürüne katkı sağlayacaktır. Bu nedenle çalışmayı, iç mimarlık eğitimine yeni başlayan öğrenciler ile birinci yılını tamamlamış öğrenciler arasında iç mekanlara yönelik estetik değerlendirmelerde bir fark olup olmadığını araştırmak amacıyla gerçekleştirdik. Sonuçlar, öğrencilerin iç mekanların tasarımını değerlendirirken estetik memnuniyet ve yenilik kategorilerinde önemli bir fark olduğunu göstermiştir. Birinci sınıfı bitiren öğrenciler, üniversite eğitimine yeni başlayan öğrencilere göre tasarımını değerlendirdikleri iç mekanları estetik memnuniyet ve yenilik bakımından daha az beğenmişlerdir. Temel tasarım eğitiminin sonunda bu durum normaldir çünkü eğitiminin en önemli amacı öğrencilere eleştirel düşünmeyi öğretmektir.

Keywords

APID ölçeği, Estetik Memnuniyet, İç Mimarlık eğitimi, Temel Tasarım dersi

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