Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
World Applied Sciences Journal, cilt.13, sa.5, ss.1100-1105, 2011 (Scopus)
Factors that influence architecture students as they develop ideas into concepts and concepts into images are subjects of curiosity. This rising interest overlaps with attempts to comprehend cognitive aspects of the design process through a careful analysis of cognitive processes that are central to concept formation. Given the assumption that these cognitive processes exist, this study will explore what kind of information first year architecture students choose from the outer world and to what extent they are influenced by this information, in developing concepts and transforming them into space. It will be shown that ideas which are obtained from the outer world have creative impacts on the design process especially in developing concepts and then, their transformation into space. Alice in Wonderland, both the book and the cartoon, is chosen to analyze this impact. It is observed that individuals perceive differently due to varying degrees of importance they attribute to the objects of perception, i.e. selective perception. These differences in perception improve students' creativity. Findings of the study show that providing students with multiple perception options by introducing fantastic fiction in the beginning of the design process and starting the design process by generating concepts through fantastic fiction can be used as a method to boost the creativity of students in the first year architectural design studio. © IDOSI Publications, 2011.