| Issue |
SHS Web Conf.
Volume 48, 2018
ERPA International Congresses on Education 2018 (ERPA 2018)
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| Article Number | 01061 | |
| Number of page(s) | 9 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20184801061 | |
| Published online | 15 August 2018 | |
Examples in Design Education: Inspiration or Fixation?
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Eskişehir Technical University, Department of Architecture, 26000 Eskişehir, Turkey
2
İstanbul Technical University, Department of Architecture, 34437 İstanbul, Turkey
* Corresponding author: serkanch@anadolu.edu.tr
Inspiration has an important role in design education. Searching existing design examples is a widely-used practice for inspiration. There are two different approaches regarding exposure of examples in design process. Some researchers claim that examples can inspire designers and increase the originality of outcomes, while other researchers highlight that examples cause fixedness to their features as a negative effect for creativity. The aim of the study is to analyse different modalities of examples, such as text, photograph, diagram, object as stimulation and to examine the impact of quantity, abstraction, proximity and method on each modality in design education. The paper reviews empirical studies of idea exposure from the existing literature and summarizes results relevant to understanding the effects of the design examples. Overall, to avoid the potential negative effect of using examples in different modalities, designers could pay attention quantity, abstraction, and proximity of examples for each modality.
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