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Week - 1 |
Examining the functional, spatial, cultural, and symbolic dimensions of furniture; discussing key approaches to furniture as both a designed object and a subject of academic inquiry. |
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Week - 2 |
Examining furniture use through theories of everyday life and social practice; evaluating routines, habits, tacit knowledge, and user adaptations in relation to design. |
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Week - 3 |
Exploring body–furniture relationships through ergonomics, embodied experience, and inclusive design; questioning standard-user assumptions and examining the physical, perceptual, and social dimensions of comfort. |
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Week - 4 |
Analysing furniture–space relationships through scale, layout, circulation, privacy, and affordances; discussing reciprocal relationships between spatial configurations and user behaviour.
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Week - 5 |
Examining furniture through material culture and semiotic approaches; investigating the production of meaning through identity, belonging, social status, memory, and consumption practices. |
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Week - 6 |
Examining the influence of industrialization, standardization, and mass production on furniture design thinking; critically evaluating modernist approaches through their social ideals, aesthetic assumptions, and conceptions of the user. |
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Week - 7 |
Exploring the role of furniture in postmodern and critical design approaches; discussing relationships among function, aesthetics, and social critique through narrative, irony, representation, and speculation. |
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Week - 8 |
Synthesizing literature, field observations, and case study analyses; presenting the research problem, research questions, conceptual framework, and methodological approach. |
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Week - 9 |
Dayanıklılık, bakım, onarım, sökülebilirlik ve yeniden kullanımın yaşam döngüsü yaklaşımıyla değerlendirilmesi; duygusal dayanıklılık, kullanım ömrü ve sürdürülebilirlik iddiaları arasındaki ilişkilerin sorgulanması.
Evaluating durability, maintenance, repair, disassembly, and reuse from a life cycle perspective; questioning relationships among emotional durability, product lifespan, and sustainability claims. |
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Week - 10 |
Examining how demographic shifts, changing household structures, hybrid work, and technological developments affect furniture needs; developing evidence-informed trend analyses and critical future scenarios. |
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Week - 11 |
EN: Evaluating conceptual proposals in terms of theoretical coherence, research findings, and user–space relationships; strengthening the design argument through evidence, alternatives, and peer critique. |
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Week - 12 |
Presenting the research process, conceptual proposal, and justified design decisions; discussing the study’s original contribution, methodological limitations, and opportunities for further research. |
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Week - 13 |
Presenting the research process, conceptual proposal, and justified design decisions; discussing the study’s original contribution, methodological limitations, and opportunities for further research. |
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Week - 14 |
Presenting the research process, conceptual proposal, and justified design decisions; discussing the study’s original contribution, methodological limitations, and opportunities for further research. |