Browsing by Author "Torun, Ayse Ozbil"

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Integrated Approach to Museology: Proposal for a Route Linking Archaeological Sites in Canakkale, Turkey
(Scuola Pitagora Editrice, 2013) Batirbaygil, Harun; Alves, Susana; Baser, Bahar; Torun, Ayse Ozbil
Museums represent institutions connected to local communities and their cultural life. Museums are not confined to a building and its collections, but may be located in 'open-air' spaces, allowing a tangible relationship between people and the surrounding landscape to be studied. Based on this ecological understanding, we would like to apply Gambardela's idea of an "Mediterranean Museum System of Design and Applied Arts" to the Turkish context. The idea is for an integrated museum system to link different archaeological and handcraft sites along D550 road from Canakkale to Assos. Archaeological and handcraft sites are chosen due to their heritage significance and impact on tourism in Turkey. The route from Canakkale to Assos has been less explored in terms of tourism and poses an opportunity to work with the local government to devise sustainable interventions. An inventory of the cultural landscape as well as strategies for landscape branding will be used to promote a sustainable intervention and to serve as a catalyst for the cultural and economic transformation of that region. The paper emphasizes an action-oriented approach to museology and concludes by asserting the role of architecture and landscape design in shaping cultural heritage and tourism in a sustainable way.
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Teaching creativity in self-organizing studio network: implications for architectural education
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2011) Torun, Ayse Ozbil; Tekce, Isilay; Esin, Nur
Design education is traditionally developed for those related to creative arts such as artists, art object designers or professionals who search for new ideas in their designs. It is considered as a domain to awaken "creativity". Creativity is discussed as a function of human brain and mostly interpreted in its psychological context. This paper discusses the social characteristics of an education medium for creativity in terms of a network theory. This model of design education, in which the studio group is regarded as a network, proposes that by setting up the primary underlying framework, students ultimately reach a common ground through their individual learning experiences that lead to a wide range of design variations. Consequently, this open-ended process helps enhance the students. independent problem-solving and innovative thinking skills. "Awareness", "information exchange", "role defining", "continuous interaction" are related concepts in such a self-regulating interactive process of searching for creative solutions. The process will be studied under the light of recent discoveries on brain that are connected to the network theory. These ideas will be presented and illustrated through a case study of freshman design exercise implemented at Okan University Department of Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey. This learner-centered pedagogical framework can contribute to a theory of learning that can capture and convey the essential features of a metacognitive environment.