Studio Experiences in Planning Education: Muğla (Menteşe) Studio

• Published in: Megaron (Istanbul, Turkey) Vol. 13; no. 4; pp. 651 - 664
• Main Author: Erdoğan, Gizem
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: KARE Publishing 01.10.2018
• Subjects: muğla; urban planning studio; system approach; strategic spatial planning; urban planning education
• ISSN: 1309-6915; 1309-6915
• DOI: 10.5505/MEGARON.2018.57689

Urban planning education can be expressed as an interdisciplinary science field that integrates socio-economic contexts, theory and practice in the context of spatial analyzers (Keleş, 1987). With this view studios are defined the education process in urban planning; basic conceptual-theoretical issues such as urban-urbanization and urban models, practical issues such as reconstruction and reconstruction, and questioning with visual studies. From this point of view, it can be said that studios constitute the main frame of planning education in the context of the combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience. This study is based on the hypothesis that urban planning aims to convey the experience gained in the studio process and that the system approach is the scientific research technique used at the basis of studio studies. The aim of this study is to discuss within system approach the methodology and evaluation process in the scope of context-content construct of the planning studies research conducted in Muğla (Menteşe) settlement sample research area. The focal point of these discussions should be seen as the present of planning approaches-models for the identification of spatial and functional identities searches based on the basis of the scenario script foreseen by the impressions obtained with the theoretical information, on-site and observation studies and on the foreseen scenario design. In the context of strategic spatial planning approach of this study, it is thought that defining the spatial-functional identities of the urban settlements in the upper scale and determining the strategic priority planning areas by taking the scenario design and the urban vision as a foreground and the subscale is going to present a different perspective to the urban planning education with the method design based on unit design.