Architecture (English) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | UNI336 | ||||
Course Name: | Design Thinking | ||||
Semester: | Fall | ||||
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Language of instruction: | Turkish | ||||
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Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
Course Coordinator: | Prof. Dr. HATİCE ÖZ PEKTAŞ | ||||
Course Lecturer(s): | MELDA GÖKNEL | ||||
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Course Objectives: | Course Objectives This course introduces the basic principles of interaction, service, product and system design with the first and foremost focus on people’s needs, choices, and experiences rather than anything else. The course addresses the underlying framework for understanding and practicing fundamental concepts, tools, and design processes with a broad focus on all stakeholders rather than only end-users. Various tools and techniques such as co-designing, envisioning, testing and prototyping, role-playing and touchpoints are introduced throughout the course. Students, individually and as a team, experience a series of hands-on, class-based exercises on the methodology of creating products and services. |
Course Content: | Course Content To introduce students to theoretical knowledge, conceptual approaches, and practical skills of Design Thinking to understand and learn human-centered design methodology. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Recognize the basic principles of Design Thinking and human-centered design methodology. 2) Define exemplary business and design problems by using various tools and techniques of the methodology. 3) Apply the principles of the methodology to develop solution proposals considering various stakeholders. 4) Prepare an innovative project proposal in line with the main requirements of the methodology as a team. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Meet and Greet, Forming Final Project Groups, Fundamentals of the course and needed equipment | - |
1) | Meet and Greet, Forming Final Project Groups, Fundamentals of the course and needed equipment | - |
1) | Meet and Greet, Forming Final Project Groups, Fundamentals of the course and needed equipment | - |
2) | What is Human Centered Design? | - |
3) | Empathy Methods– field work | - |
3) | Empathy Methods– field work | - |
4) | Persona – in class exercise | - |
5) | Defining the problem | - |
6) | Mad Lib and HMWQ – in class exercise | - |
7) | Ideation Methods – in class exercise | - |
8) | MID SEMESTER PRESENTATION OF THE FINAL PROJECT | - |
9) | Feed-back on projects and strategies for further development | - |
10) | Prototype and Test – in class exercise | - |
11) | Project evaluation with RWW – in class exercise (may be holiday) | - |
12) | Making a design budget and production timeline | - |
13) | Storytelling for design | - |
14) | Final presentation | - |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman, 1988. Tasarım Odaklı Düşünce-Design Thinking, Emrah Kozan, 2021. |
References: | The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman, 1988. Tasarım Odaklı Düşünce-Design Thinking, Emrah Kozan, 2021. |
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Program Outcomes | |||||||||||||||
1) She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | |||||||||||||||
2) She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | |||||||||||||||
3) She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | |||||||||||||||
4) Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | |||||||||||||||
5) She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | |||||||||||||||
6) She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |||||||||||||||
7) In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |||||||||||||||
8) To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |||||||||||||||
9) She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |||||||||||||||
10) Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |||||||||||||||
11) Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | |||||||||||||||
12) She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |||||||||||||||
13) She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | |||||||||||||||
14) She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | |||||||||||||||
15) Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. | |
2) | She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles. | |
3) | She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects. | |
4) | Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action. | |
5) | She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. | |
6) | She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements. | |
7) | In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field. | |
8) | To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues. | |
9) | She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member. | |
10) | Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture. | |
11) | Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality. | |
12) | She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster. | |
13) | She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning. | |
14) | She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights. | |
15) | Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 60 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 5 | 10 |
Application | 16 | 32 |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | 5 | 10 |
Field Work | 2 | 4 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 3 | 4 |
Presentations / Seminar | 3 | 6 |
Project | 16 | 32 |
Quizzes | 5 | 10 |
Midterms | 4 | 8 |
Final | 1 | 2 |
Total Workload | 118 |