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| PEM2018 | Spatial Behavior | 2+0+0 | ECTS:3 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | Face to face | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Prof. Dr. Sema MUMCU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The course aims to provide the students with a general knowledge on concepts of environmental psychology and to teach them the process of perception, cognition, and behavior, methods in environment-behavior research and to help them use these methods to get data from a given site, and to teach them types of human needs and how to reflect these knowledge on their projects and analyze human needs for a particular project subject. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | analyze what the human needs are for a given project area. | 1,2 | | | LO - 2 : | use environment-behavior research methods and tools, analyze the data, and use the findings in design process. | 1,2 | 1,3,5 | | LO - 3 : | reflect their information about spatial organisation such as human needs, activity patterns, spatial arrangement to their environmental design projects | 1,2 | 1,3,5 | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| History and concepts of environmental psychology
Human-environment relationship, Human needs, Maslow's hierarchy of human needs
Concepts of perception, cognition, behaviour
Theories of landscape perception, preference
Concepts spatial organization, types of spaces, human need-activity type-spatial organization relationship |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Information on general contents of the course, issues, and aims. The relationship of the knowledge from this course with Landscape Architecture discipline, informing students how and where to use these knowledge. | | | Week 2 | Environmental psychology, its history and development, and subjects. The relationship of spatial behavior knowledge and design.Samples from environement-behavior researches. | | | Week 3 | changes in human-environment (nature)relationship in historical context (1; human-nature relationship before and after enlighment period, positivism and scientific method, effects on landscape architecture | | | Week 4 | changes in human-environment (nature)relationship in historical context (2; alternative approaches on human-environment relationship, romanticism, expressionism | | | Week 5 | The nature of human-environment interaction. The concept of environment, its definition, classification. | | | Week 6 | The concept of space, various definitions, classifications, samples. The concept of spatial organization; considering human needs-activity-space relationship in design project scenarios | | | Week 7 | The concepts of spatial elements and components, their definitions, their roles in spatial organization. | | | Week 8 | The definition spatial composition, its role in spatial behavior; unity, balance, scale, form, symmetry concepts, their relationship with spatial behavior, analyzing these concepts on samples | | | Week 9 | Mid-term exam | | | Week 10 | Behavior settings; behavior setting theory, basic concepts; behavior patterns, milieu, synomorphy; basic properties. Analyzing these concepts on various samples. | | | Week 11 | Behavior mechanism in human, human needs, motivation, reflections of needs on activities and space. | | | Week 12 | Perception, cognition and evaluation process, the concept perception, the theories of perception, | | | Week 13 | The concept of cognition, cognitive maps, environmental evaluation, environmental preference concept and basic approaches. | | | Week 14 | Spatial behavior, basic properties of human behavior, models of human behavior, ecological model in detail. privacy, personal space, territorial behavior, personalization | | | Week 15 | final exam | | | |
| 1 | Gür, Ş. 1996; Mekan Örgütlenmesi (Spatial Organization), Gür Matbaacılık, Trabzon | | | 2 | Proshansky, H. M., Ittelson, W. H., Rivlin, L. G. (Eds.) 1976; Environmental Psychology; People and Their Physical Settings, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Second Edition. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Quiz | 9 | | 1 | 30 | | Homework/Assignment/Term-paper | 15 | | 16 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 15 | | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Laboratuar çalışması | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 8 | 1 | 8 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Klinik Uygulama | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Ödev | 6 | 6 | 36 | | Proje | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Kısa sınav | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 2 | 16 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Diğer 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Total work load | | | 90 |
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