Creative Sustainability Expressions: Student Projects Crafted from Waste Materials in Basic Design Studios

Year 2025, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 200 - 215, 28.07.2025

Aysu Ceren Yılmaz Barış , Seda Canoğlu , Halime Şule Ak , Gizem Hediye Eren

https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1573620

Abstract

Integrating the circular economy concepts into basic design/art courses, which are foundational to creativity-oriented disciplines, is crucial for introducing students to sustainability. This study employs a case study within the Basic Design Studio of the Interior Architecture and Industrial Design Departments to examine the process and outcomes of crafting student work leftovers. A mixed-method approach with a single-group pre-test post-test model was employed in an experimental design. Fifteen students collected waste from various exercises throughout the semester. The materials, mostly paper, and its derivatives, were stored for a workshop to be transformed into new creative works on two- or three-dimensional plane. Drawing on four main theoretical frameworks—sustainability, aesthetics, basic design, and visualization in design education—the study emphasizes the aesthetics of sustainability. By examining this hybrid area, this study contributes to students' creative expressions of sustainability, awareness about conscious material use and sustainable practices in their future careers.

Keywords

Sustainability , aesthetics , basic design , visualization

Ethical Statement

The article complies with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics Committee approval in the study was taken from Ethics Committee of the Eskişehir Technical University dated 15.01.2024 and with Number E-87914409-050.04.

Supporting Institution

Eskişehir Technical University

Project Number

23ADP224

Thanks

Thanks to the participants who were first-grade students from the interior architecture and industrial design departments for their contributions.

Yaratıcı Sürdürülebilirlik Anlatımları: Temel Tasarım Stüdyolarında Atık Malzemelerden Üretilen Öğrenci Projeleri

Abstract

Yaratıcılığa yönelik disiplinlerin temelini oluşturan temel tasarım/sanat derslerine döngüsel ekonomi kavramlarını entegre etmek, öğrencileri sürdürülebilirlikle tanıştırmak için çok önemlidir. Bu çalışma, öğrenci çalışmalarından arta kalan artıkların kullanıldığı bir atölyenin sürecini ve sonuçlarını incelemek için İç Mimarlık ve Endüstriyel Tasarım Bölümlerinin Temel Tasarım Stüdyosu'nda bir vaka çalışmasını ele almaktadır. Deneysel bir tasarımda, tek gruplu ön test son test modeliyle karma yöntemli bir yaklaşım kullanılmıştır. On beş öğrenci, yarıyıl boyunca çeşitli egzersizlerden atık toplamıştır. Çoğunlukla kağıt ve türevleri olan malzemeler, iki veya üç boyutlu düzlemde yeni yaratıcı çalışmalara dönüştürülmek üzere bir atölyede kullanılmak üzere saklanmıştır. Tasarım eğitiminde sürdürülebilirlik, estetik, temel tasarım ve görselleştirme olmak üzere dört ana teorik çerçeveden yararlanan çalışma, sürdürülebilirliğin estetiğini vurgulamaktadır. Bu hibrit alanı inceleyerek, bu çalışma öğrencilerin sürdürülebilirliğe ilişkin yaratıcı ifadelerine, bilinçli malzeme kullanımına ve gelecekteki kariyerlerinde sürdürülebilir uygulamalar konusunda farkındalıklarına katkıda bulunmaktadır.

Keywords

Sürdürülebilirlik , estetik , temel tasarım , görselleştirme

Project Number

23ADP224

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