Browsing by Author "Karakaya, Ahmet Fatih"

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    Collaborative environments to enhance creativity of design students : use of collaborative creativity support tools
    (2011) Karakaya, Ahmet Fatih
    Collaboration and creativity are integral parts of design education process. Tools to support collaborative design process, as well as tools to support creativity in the process now being used together in design education. Therefore in this study, the Collaborative Creativity Support Tool (CCST) is proposed and applied to the design process that is conducted both synchronously and asynchronously. CCST is composed of design students, knowledge domain and design field. MOODLE learning environment is utilized for collaboration and enhancing creativity processes in knowledge domain, and Google SketchUp 3D modeling tool is used in the design field. Data collection is composed of observations during and after the study, surveys, correspondence logs, 3D models, interviews and statistics that were obtained by MOODLE forum logs. To evaluate effectiveness of CCST, segment analysis over demographic data, communication frequencies, communication codes, indicators of creativity, analysis of creativity in design education is used. Findings of the empirical research indicate that CCST supported design students in both collaborative and creative processes.
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    A Framework for web-based education systems supporting interdisciplinary design collaboration
    (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, 2007) Karakaya, Ahmet Fatih; Taşlı Pektaş, Şule
    Web-based educational systems are promising applications to enhance design education. Although the advantages of such systems have been discussed in the literature extensively, few studies in the field have used them for teaching interdisciplinary design collaboration. In order to alleviate this problem, a web-based interdisciplinary building design studio was designed and implemented. Considering the lack of systematic approaches in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in studios, this paper offers a framework for analysing, understanding and exploiting web-based studios in terms of aim, content, method and management in the light of the case study.
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    A study on the encounter of the architect and the interior architect through web-based collaborative learning
    (2005) Karakaya, Ahmet Fatih
    This study focuses how two academic disciplines; architecture and interior architecture, have collaborated on a common project. It discusses educational issues and comments on possible improvement to interdisciplinary work offering design education curriculum recommendations. With the help of rapid developments in information and communication technologies, collaboration between geographically distributed, multidisciplinary teams is becoming standard practice in the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) industry. However, in design education students seldom have a chance to collaborate with other disciplines. By integrating information and communication technologies into design studio, encounter of different disciplines can be achieved and this expected to be effective in design curriculum. In this research, students from both disciplines collaboratively designed a Turkish Store in the Netherlands in a virtual design studio environment. Information on encounter of disciplines was obtained via questionnaires and interviews. The results indicate that the similarities of disciplines and the differences in social and cultural contexts provided a rich setting for exploring cross-cultural design collaboration and understanding of interdisciplinary spatial processes in terms of design students. Overlapping boundaries of architecture and interior architecture were perceived by design students and it was an effective experiment for their professional life.