Symbolic Landscapes and Their Spatial Components: Understanding the Environmental Design Vocabulary of Place Identity
Sema Mumcu 1
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, Serap Yilmaz 1
and Emine Tarakci Eren 1
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Department of Landscape Architecture Trabzon,
Karadeniz Technical University,
Trabzon,
Turkey
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.11
One of the most concrete problems created by the forces of globalization is identity loss, which is becoming increasingly widespread. In this context, urban governments often expect environmental designers and planners to create open spaces characteristic of the city and define their own identity values. This situation increases the importance of questions such as how landscape architects relate spatial components and identity features in a design, what kind of design vocabulary is adopted in open space design in terms of place identity. In this research, conducted with 165 senior landscape architecture students in different years, participants were asked to define the spatial components if they were to design a symbolic space in an urban park in Trabzon city. Categorization of the spatial components revealed that monumental components were depicted and most frequently used to make connections with an identity feature. Students used a variety of features such as form, color, material and patterns connected to city’s cultural, social, natural and historical attributes. However, some students’ design suggestions revealed the need to enhance their level of information and experiences in terms of aesthetic/perceptual dimension with extra practices because their suggestions had elements of kitsch.
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Mumcu S, Yilmaz S, Eren E. T. Symbolic Landscapes and Their Spatial Components: Understanding the Environmental Design Vocabulary of Place Identity. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.12.3.11
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Mumcu S, Yilmaz S, Eren E. T. Symbolic Landscapes and Their Spatial Components: Understanding the Environmental Design Vocabulary of Place Identity. Curr World Environ 2017;12(3). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org/?p=17786
