Calligraphy as a Metaphoric Tool for Basic Design Courses

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https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2019.72

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Design education, basic design, Anatolian arts, calligraphy, metaphor.

Abstract

The primary purpose of this study is to show that works of art (painting, music, sculpture, literature, etc.) can be used as means of guidance for the designers, and triggering creativity. On the other hand, the secondary purpose is to prove the mettle art of calligraphy as a tool of guidance for the freshmen and a trigger for creativity in the context of basic design discipline. During the fall semesters in 2015-2016 and 2016-2017, the main theme for Basic Design Course at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture was chosen and determined as “Anatolian Arts”. Within the context of the chosen theme, it was tried to reveal the potential relationship between “Anatolian Arts and Basic Design Elements and Principles”, moreover, the usability of Anatolian Arts as a tool of design.  In this aim, from the whole semester, only one sample of practice has been chosen to put forward the hypothesis of relationship between arts and education increases the creativity in terms of basic design elements (dot, line, direction, shape/form, distance, size, proportion), for this study; a sampling through “basic design elements” with the “art of calligraphy” has been made. Within this hypothesis, the “art of calligraphy” and its characters were introduced briefly and this characteristic situation was questioned in the given design problems by means of “basic design elements”. In short, this study, which exemplifies the state of calligraphy as a metaphoric tool in design education, focuses on the partnerships of calligraphy and basic design elements. Design elements such as “dot”, “line”, “direction”, “shape/form”, “distance”, “size” and “proportion”are reinterpreted in the context of the characteristics of calligraphy. Thus, the art of calligraphy has become a metaphoric tool.

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Author Biographies

Nilgün Kuloğlu, Karadeniz Technical University

Nilgün Kuloğlu born in 1963, in Ankara, Turkey. She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, in 1984. She received her master degree in 1987 and completed PhD. thesis in 1994 at the same University. She worked in order to prepare conference, exhibition and competition at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture on different years. She still works as a Prof. Dr. at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Architecture-Department of Architecture and continues professional activities at the same university. She leads the “Basic Design”, “Design Studio”, “Environment and Behavior Science” and “Theories and Concepts of Architecture” at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Serap Durmuş Öztürk, Karadeniz Technical University

Serap Durmuş Öztürk is an Assoc. Prof. Dr. at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture in Trabzon, Turkey. She received her B.Arch in 2006, MSc. in 2009 with the thesis “A Deconstructionist Reading in Religious Spaces: Shah Faisal Mosque” and PhD. in 2014 with the thesis “A Rhetorical Construction of Architectural Thought: Usûl-i Mimârî-i Osmânî” degrees in architecture from Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Faculty of Architecture. She was awarded Ibn Rushd (Averroes) Award of Merit in Social Sciences (USOS Congress, Malaga/Spain) in 2017 and the Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist Award for Social Sciences with her PhD thesis in 2015. Her major research interests include rhetoric, architectural theory, deconstruction philosophy and re-reading for architecture. She leads the “Architectural Design Studio”, “Basic Design Course”, “Introduction to Architecture” at undergraduate level and “Rhetoric in Architecture”, “Theoretical Construction of Architectural Thought” postgraduate level.

Asu Beşgen, Karadeniz Technical University

Asu Beşgen is a Prof. Dr. at Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Architecture in Trabzon, Turkey. She received her Master Degree with the thesis; “The Effects of Cubist Movement on Modern and Post Modern Architecture” and her Bachelor Degree with the thesis on “Concept, Conception, Conceptual Analysis in Aesthetics and Architecture” from the same university. She leads the “Architectural Design”, “Interior Design” and “Basic Design” Studios, teaches the courses of “Theories and Concepts of Architecture”, “Aesthetics”, “Theory of Art”, “The Dialog of Art and Architecture in 20th Century”, “Cinema and Architecture” at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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28-06-2019

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Kuloğlu, N., Durmuş Öztürk, S., & Beşgen, A. (2019). Calligraphy as a Metaphoric Tool for Basic Design Courses. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 7(1), 187–204. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2019.72

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