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Doctoral Thesis Postformal Thought and Creativity in Design Process(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Kaya, Nazife Aslı; Çıkış, ŞenizThe aim of this study is to reveal relations between creativity in design and cognitive development levels of designers with a Post-Piagetian approach. In this study design processes were deeply inspected with the aim of obtaining more comprehensive information about the effects of individual’s cognitive status on the design processes, problem-solving and idea generation quality. In this field, studies done so far have been conducted on test results as indicators of creativity. In this study, however, protocol analyses were also evaluated in addition to testing the results, and thanks to this addition, it was possible to determine the qualitative and quantitative effects of the cognitive development levels on creativity. Total twenty-five students voluntarily participated in the research. To collect data, two different methods were employed. Social Paradigm Belief Inventory (SPBI), was employed to determine students' cognitive stages and scores, and Think-aloud protocol, was used to elicit verbal reports of thought sequences of students. In order to analyse verbal reports for investigating designers' cognitive activities, Linkography method was conducted and general statistics of segments were measured. To exposure, the relations between creativity in design and cognitive development levels of designers, SPBI scores and obtained general statistical values of design sessions were correlated and findings showed that there is a strong and significant correlation between cognitive development levels and creativity in favour of dialectical thinking. Addition to this, participants’ partial protocols were analysed syntactically, and the networks were inspected to reveal the impacts of postformal thinking on creative design process with the help of Function-Behaviour-Structure (FBS) Ontology. The findings of the syntactic analysis also supported the finding of the correlations.Doctoral Thesis Mass-Housing Consensuses and Their Effects on Design Organizations in Terms of Quality(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2012) Ek, Fatma İpek; Çıkış, ŞenizThere is an increasing acceleration in the production of mass-housing projects currently in Turkey. Alongside this increase, there is conspicuous diversity, as well. In most of the recent mass-housing projects, there are many alternatives concerning with the locations in the city, income groups, and characteristics of environmental design. Settlements of those projects with multi-storey blocks contain facilities in outer spaces, equipments, and services which vary according to the conditions of parcels and competition as well as inhabitants’ expectations. Despite this variety in environmental equipments, landscape elements, and services, mass-housing units mostly repeat each other impressively. Almost all of the mass-housing projects implemented recently for low or high income-groups, in the periphery of the city-center, go into uniformity in terms of the spatial organizations of units. This situation has been criticized frequently in the related housing-literature which defines it as a quality problem of architecture. In the current study examining the situation of uniformity in mass-housing units, relationship between the unit and quality of architectural design is undertaken. In this context, how the inhabitants perceive the spatial organization of mass-housing projects, and whether those units meet the expectations are probed. Regarding this aim, userbased quality approaches and measurement method called the Kano model are utilized. Thus, the study covers the examination of the selected mass-housing units in terms of their models of spatial organization with the evaluations by their inhabitants. Under the light of the survey results, whether this uniformity refers a problem or a consensus is discussed.Doctoral Thesis Instrumentalisation of Natural Science for the Reconstruction of Architectural Konowledge: Lissitzky, Doesburg, Meyer, Teige(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2006) İnceköse, Ülkü; Çıkış, ŞenizThe main idea aimed in this dissertation is to analyze the instrumentalisation process of natural scientific knowledge in a struggle for reconstructing architectural knowledge, between 1914 and 1945. This investigation has been made in the scale of the spreading of this effort in Middle and Eastern Europe in general and has been detailed over the most radical form observed in the left-wing architectural discourses.Architecture lost its self-legitimate, unitary structure of knowledge it owned pre-modern period, in the modernization process. In this situation, for reconstructing this unitary structure, architectural theorists oriented towards different fields of knowledge, considering their knowledge more reliable than own. With this struggle, some architectural discourses sustain the old, some presented synthesis proposals, from the end of nineteenth century, some were in the assertion of entirely transforming the architectural knowledge. This struggle gained a new dimension by means of the revolutionary social context formed after the First World War. Especially, in left-wing avant-garde discourses, assigning .a new beginning,. .a new architecture. which can reconstruct a new world was aimed. These discourses have oriented natural scientific knowledge to justify/legitimize their statements and have established a problematic relationship with it.Consequently, this dissertation explains the mechanisms through which architecture implants natural scientific knowledge into its own studies, and presents the transformation that adapted knowledge undergoes. In this way, the problematic relationship between the knowledge of architecture and natural sciences as a result of instrumentalisation is analyzed. This analysis focuses on the discourses of four architectural theorists: Lissitzky, Doesburg, Teige, Meyer.