The aim of study is a bibliometric analysis of the publications in the Web of Science database related to interior design education. The research was carried out between 10 January and 12 February 2023. Searches in the TIT-ABS-KEY field of WOS search engine. "Interior architecture education" (Topic) OR "interior architecture education*” (Topic) OR “interior design education” (Topic) OR "interior design education*” (Topic) generating 125 publications on the subject. Most of these were “Proceeding Paper” with 66 publications and in the top position of “Educational Research” with 65 publications; the “Architecture” category came in second with 26 publications. In addition, “Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences” resulted in 25 publications and the “Journal of Interior Design” in 12 publications. Among the WOS indexes, “CPCI-SSH” contains 62 publications. The words most frequently used by authors are interior architecture education, interior architecture, design studio, education, sustainability, design, creativity, design thinking, design processes, and computer-aided design.

Bu makalenin amacı mimarlık alanında çocuklarla ilgili yayınların bibliyometrik analizi ve bibliyografik haritalarla incelenmesidir. Çalışma kapsamında 1975-2022 yılları arasındaki yayınlara WoS (Web of Science) veri tabanından erişilmiştir. Yayın kategorisi “Mimarlık” seçilmiştir. 15 Mart 2022 tarihine kadar yayınlanan 747 yayına ulaşılmıştır. Verilerinin analizi bibliyometrik analiz ve bibliyografik haritalar olarak iki başlık altında incelenmiştir. Bibliyografik harita verileri VOSviewer programında görselleştirilmiştir. Mimarlık alanında çocuk konulu yayınlar ülkelere göre incelendiğinde ilk sırada ABD, ikinci sırada ise Türkiye gelmektedir. Makale yayınlarının diğer yayınlara oranla ön planda olduğu görülmektedir. Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI) veri tabanındaki yayınlar ilk sırada yer almaktadır. En etkili dergi Landscape Architecture dergisidir. Yazarların yayınlarında en çok kullandıkları kelimeler ise çocuk, oyun alanı, erişilebilirlik, mimarlık, tasarım, eğitim, ev, oyun, öğrenme ve kentsel tasarım olduğu sonucuna ulaşılmıştır.

Nowadays, urbanization is increasing and children’s relationship with their living environment is becoming more and more important. This study aims to examine the urban imagery elements in children’s minds concerning the urban space in which they live and to show how children reflect spatial information about their home and home environment in their cognitive maps. A field study was conducted with children (n=387) in the Kadıkoy neighborhood of Istanbul during the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year. The study group was selected using stratified random sampling. Questionnaires and cognitive maps were created with children aged 10-14 years. IBM SPSS 25.0 statistical program was used to analyze the research data. The study used descriptive data analysis to determine frequencies and percentages. The results of the study are divided into two categories. The first consists of drawing an image map of the real environment and determining the image elements, and the second consists of spatially analyzing the content of the cognitive maps drawn by the children. Spatial content analysis of cognitive maps; i) explanation of home environment in children’s cognitive maps following Lynch’s methodology (path and landmarks); ii) Matthews’ categories for classifying children’s drawn cognitive maps. The research findings show that i) paths are drawn more frequently as landmarks in children’s cognitive maps, but landmarks are drawn in more detail and defined in writing. The second finding of the study is ii) that the reflection rate of children’s functional cognitive map drawings (elements of the built environment) from the immediate environment of their home is quite high. This study of children’s city images and cognitive mapping abilities is likely to give researchers in fields including city planning, architecture, educational sciences, cognitive psychology, and child psychology a new perspective.