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COVID-19 pandemic caused transformation by influencing the physical and psycho-social status of houses, and by introducing different functions and needs which led to or will lead to changes in individuals’ expectations from their houses. Drawing on this idea, this study allows for the detection of such changes through examination and for the consideration of future house arrangements, housing designs and their production by identifying the usage possibilities of existing houses. The research design is structured in three main steps. First step is the literature part that draws the conceptual framework of the study. Second step includes survey technique with use of panel design as a quantitative research method. In the research, third step has built with semi-structured interview to be deepen analyzing of the results of the quantitative part. The findings reached through this study have the potential to lead future house arrangements as well as housing production and design which are also significant in terms of innovative and creative housing designs studied within disciplines such as interior architecture and architecture. Sample of the research is the city of Istanbul which is first of the most affected cities from COVID-19 pandemic. Selecting a big and multi-component metropolis like Istanbul as research area for residential spaces brought different difficulties in the application processes of research methods while allowing the multidimensional examination of the subject. The research design proposed by this study possess the quality of a guiding sample for future scientific studies.

Design studios are at the core of architecture, interior architecture, or design education. Different design problems are experienced and solved in these studios every term or year. The last step of the design studios is the graduation/degree project, which is characteristic of a threshold between education and profession. The scope of the study is to examine the graduation/degree projects’ approaches of the schools that are providing interior architecture education in Turkey and to evaluate their project outputs. Thus, quantitative analyses and qualitative evaluations have been made on the documents of the MEKAN/İç Mimarlık Öğrencileri Ulusal Bitirme Projeleri Yarışması (Interior Design Students National Graduation Projects Competition), which are served as an important archive. In this respect, within the scope of the study, an inventory has been tried to be put forward by evaluating the competition processes through the participant projects between 2012-2021. Firstly, an analysis has been made on the numerical distribution of all the participant projects according to the years and the diversity of the participating schools. Then, more detailed analyses have been carried out on the award-winning projects by narrowing the sample group. In addition, developments in the matters of the perspectives of different schools on design problems, their proposals for solutions, their design representations, etc. have been brought to light. As researchers and educators, it has been tried to open a way for how interior architecture education to reconstruct itself in the future, by rethinking the education itself.

Tasarlamak, yaratıcı çözümler gerektiren karmaşık bir düşünme etkinliğidir. Kişisel deneyimler, etkilenmeler, alınan eğitim ve çalışma ortaklıklarıyla beslenen bu etkinlikte, düşünmenin zenginleştirilmesi ve çeşitlenmesi yaratıcı tasarının ortaya çıkması için önemlidir. Düşünmenin, tasarımcıyla ve tasarım etkinliğinin bütünüyle ilişkili olması, düşünceyi ortaya koymak için kullanılacak yöntemlerin ve araçların oluşturulmasında etkili olmaktadır. Buradan kaynakla çalışma; "yaratıcı düşünmenin yaratıcı tasarlamayı yarattığı bunun da çeşitli araçlarla gerçekleştiği" varsayımından yola çıkarak, mekan tasarımı etkinliği sırasında kullanılmış ve kullanılmakta olan farklı düşünme ve tasarlama araçlarının sorgulanması üzerine yoğunlaşmaktadır. Çalışmanın amacı; düşünme ve tasarlama eylemi esnasında eskiz, maket, diyagram ve son yıllarda kullanılan haritalama gibi yaratıcı araçları irdeleyip, mekan tasarımı sürecinde kullanılabilme potansiyellerini ortaya koymak olarak belirlenmiştir.

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