IAED 424 | Course Introduction and Application Information - Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

Course Name

Space and Children

Code	Semester	Theory (hour/week)	Application/Lab (hour/week)	Local Credits	ECTS
IAED 424	Fall/Spring	3	0	3	4

Prerequisites	None
Course Language	English
Course Type	Elective
Course Level	First Cycle
Mode of Delivery	face to face
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course	Discussion Q&A Critical feedback Lecture / Presentation
National Occupation Classification	-
Course Coordinator	Dr.Öğretim Üyesi DİDEM YAVUZ VELİPAŞAOĞLU
Course Lecturer(s)	Dr.Öğretim Üyesi DİDEM YAVUZ VELİPAŞAOĞLU
Assistant(s)	-

Course Objectives	This course examines the concept of childhood in the time being, with a particular focus on its perception within the socio-cultural, spatial, and urban contexts. Since late nineteenth century, ss a social, aesthetic, and psychological construct, childhood has been shaped by spatial arrangements and designed materials. This course promises to analyze these designed elements both as tools for constructing the concept of childhood and as mechanisms for personal and societal development.
Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; describe the design considerations shaping the form of a product, a space, or a building related to children’s environment. interpret the style of any product, space, or building related to children’s environment within the context of its historical period. relate a product, a space or a building designed for children with the discourse of its designer. formulate the continuities and discontinuities between the design approaches and historical periods about designed elements for children. evaluate the products, spaces, and buildings designed for children as integral parts of a particular design thinking.
Course Description	The course focuses on the design discourses in the context of the evolution of childhood in the modern world, aiming to understand the foundations of contemporary approaches. Nearly every topic is analyzed through the lens of childhood to identify the shifts and ruptures between design approaches and historical periods.
Related Sustainable Development Goals

Course Category	Core Courses
	Major Area Courses
	Supportive Courses	X
	Media and Management Skills Courses
	Transferable Skill Courses

Week	Subjects	Related Preparation
1	Introduction: In Search of the Modern Child
2	Spatial Experience by Children	Christopher Day, Design by adults: experience by children, in Environment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment, Elsevier, 2007, 3-7
3	Industrialization and Childhood	Juliet Kinchin, Glasgow: Children In the City Beautiful, in Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, MomA, Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Cannor (eds) 36-39. Aidan O’Cannor, Chicago: Progressive Era Laboratory, in Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, MomA, Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Cannor (eds), pp. 40-43. Juliet Kinchin, Living in Utopia: Children in the Gödöllö Arts and Crafts Colony, in Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, MomA, Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Cannor (eds) pp. 50-53.
4	Kindergarten Movement	Group work: Analysis of the images from Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus: class, domestic activities, field trips, spiritual motherhood and arise of Feminism
5	Light, Air and Health: Housing	Regine Hess, Halls, “Huts,” and Houses: Large Exhibitions, Prefabrication, and Housing, in Between Conventional and Experimental: Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture, 2024, pp. 185-208.
6	Light, Air and Health: Park Regulations	Group Work: Analysis of existing playgrounds: Park regulations, health regulations, Industrialization and existing urban pattern.
7	Body Regulation: Children in Russia & German Youth Movement, Italy, Japan, Great Britain and Colonial West Africa	Juliet Kinchin, Pioneering the Revolution: Children in Soviet Russia, , in Century of the Child: Growing by Design, 1900-2000, MomA, Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Cannor (eds), pp. 122-124. Kenny Cupers, Governing through nature: camps and youth movements in interwar Germany and the United States, Cultural Geographies, April 2008, Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 2008), pp. 173-205.
8	Midterm Week
9	Regulating the Child: Children and Youth in Ottoman Case and Emerging Turkey Guest Lecturer	Group Work: Analysis of cartoons from children’s journals and analysis of children cloths: Depiction of a children, Children’s Rights, citizenship, the changing concept of childhood: from a small adult to a infant.
10	Schooling: Child Cooperatives and Open - Air Education Movement	Mia Roth-Cerina, Infrastructures of Childcare: Establishing the Modern Language of Zagreb’s Schools in the Agency of Ivan Zemljak, in Docomomo 18 Proceeding Book, 2024, pp. 174-181. Louise Noelle Gras Gas, Catherne Rose Ettinger, Educating Modern Children: Local Solutions and Standardised Construction, in Docomomo 18 Proceeding Book, 2024, pp. 161-167. Requel Franklin Unkind, Learning Through Experience: Johann Heinrick Pestalozzi’ Pedagogy in Hannes Meyer’s Educational Building Projects, in Docomomo 18 Proceeding Book, 2024, pp. 167-174.
11	Playtime: Toys, Playgrounds, Sport activities	Group Work: Analysis of children’s play: imaginative fantasy, materials, industry
12	Power Play: Disneyland, Shopping Malls, Mc Donald’s	Suzi Mirgani, Designing the Shopping Mall, in Target Markets, 45-73, transcript Verlag. 2017. Karal Ann Marling, Disneyland, 1955: Just Take the Santa Ana Freeway to the American Dream, American Art , Winter - Spring, 1991, Vol. 5, No. 1/2 (Winter - Spring, 1991), pp. 168-207.
13	The School-Reform	Group work: Writing a short essay: How to design universal child?
14	Children and Digitalization: Games	Guest Lecturer
15	Individual presentations by students: Critical Analysis of a designed material for children, a fairy tale, a game, a cloth, a toy, a school, a playground or children’s room
16	Review of the semester

Course Notes/Textbooks

Juliet Kinchin, Aidan O’Connor, Century of the Children, Growing By Design, 2012, MOMA
Gülay Yılmaz and Fruma Zachs, (eds,) Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire, 2021, Edinburgh University Press
Colin Heywood, Baba Bana Top At! Batı’da Çocukluğun Tarihi, 2001, Kitap Yayınevi
Christopher Day, Design by adults: experience by children, in Environment and Children: Passive Lessons from the Everyday Environment, Elsevier, 2007.
Celal Abdi Güzer (ed) Çocuk ve Mimarlık, Fol, 2024.

Suggested Readings/Materials

Semester Activities	Number	Weigthing
Participation	1	10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments	1	40
Presentation / Jury	1	50
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade	3	100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

Semester Activities	Number	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours)	16	3	48
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)	16		0
Study Hours Out of Class	14	1	14
Field Work			0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques			0
Portfolio			0
Homework / Assignments	3	12	36
Presentation / Jury	1	22	22
Project			0
Seminar / Workshop			0
Oral Exam			0
Midterms			0
Final Exam			0
		Total	120

#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	* Contribution Level
#	Program Competencies/Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
1	To be able to perform, execute and manage the various responsibilities and duties of an interior architecture and environmental design professional	-	-	-	-	-
2	To be able to recognize, analyze and integrate within their practice the particular local and regional needs and developments of their profession	-	-	X	-	-
3	To be able to communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups on a national and international level within their profession	X	-	-	-	-
4	To be able to develop, integrate and promote independent critical approaches for their professional practice	-	X	-	-	-
5	To be able to understand the social and environmental issues and responsibilities of their profession	X	-	-	-	-
6	To be able identify, assess and utilize the most up to date research, innovations, trends and technologies	-	-	X	-	-
7	To be able to consider the national and international standards and regulations of their field	-	-	-	-	-
8	To be able to develop the abilities to communicate and present design ideas within visual, oral and textual formats	-	-	-	-	-
9	To be able to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to design on a national and international level	-	-	-	-	-
10	To be able to recognize their own strengths, and develop them within an environment	-	-	-	-	-
11	To be able to collect data in the areas of interior architecture and environmental design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language	-	-	-	-	-
12	To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently	-	-	-	-	-
13	To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise	-	-	-	-	-