The first semester design studio is characterized by design investigations that are developed through thinking, experiencing and making.

Being far away from the studio environment during the COVID-19 pandemic, we used our personal and social environments as learning and experiencing platforms to explore different natural phenomena and different spatial constructs, thoughts and visions.

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To build up our own way of thinking, we also visited the works of architects, artists, writers, philosophers and scientists who have questioned how we live by reimagining spatial conditions as social constructs with programmatic, stylistic and temporal qualities. To understand the role of alternative communication in architecture, we will conduct with novels, films, texts, works of art, drawings, spaces and essays.

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In the light of this basic methodological introduction, this course also aims to question what students have learned before and sharpen their minds about themselves and their environment restricted by a result of a set of cultural codes and biases based on taxonomic hierarchical nature of knowledge. In this manner, this course aims students to explore their inner and outer environment and their body as an intersection between those two. By doing that the cultural codes and preconditions on those adjectives will become a subject of questioning.