Course Code	Semester	Course Name	LE/RC/LA	Course Type	Language of Instruction	ECTS
IAD0923		ENVIRONMENTAL INFORMATICS	3/0/0	DE	English	4

Course Goals	Environmental Informatics is an elective course that questions how to use digital technologies to understand urban environment and support design decisions. The objective of this course is to introduce with the digital tools and methods to investigate the place dynamics, and develop design ideas to increase the people-place interaction in public spaces. Regarding that, this lecture first introduces the concepts of public space and public life occurs in public space, placemaking approach and liveability. In the scope of this lecture, a variety of digital applications, analysis, design, and representation tools have been employed to understand place dynamics and develop a design idea as urban furniture that increases the public interaction with place. The course consists of three main phases performed with digital tools, which are: analysis, design and representation phases. This lecture selects Bayezid square as a case study area. The course aids in introducing with different digital tools to analyze and design the urban environment. In the time of digitization, this study poses the question of how to include digital technics for understanding the urban place experiences and develop a design product that increases place experiences.
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Instructor(s)	Lecturer Gülce Kırdar
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Schedule	Monday, 13.00, online
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Teaching Methods and Techniques	The site analysis consists of two phases. For observational site analysis, Public Life Toolkit -developed by Gehl- has been introduced as a digital application to record the place activities, and counting application to record the live traffic in the place. The students will also record the place activities through video, sketches, notes and so on. For digital site analysis, the social media data is shared with students. The collected data will be mapped in the GIS system to find out the hotspots and social places in the square. After the analysis phase, the students will design an urban furniture that encourages the place experience or solves a problem specific in the site. It is expected that a 3D modeling program (Rhino, Sketchup or 3D Max) will be used to design the prototype of the urban furniture. In the representation phase, the augmented reality technology is introduced with marker-based representation. Lastly, the prototypes will be produced using digital manufacturing technics. This course encourages the collaborative working. The students will work as a 2 people working group throughout the course.
Principle Sources	·                     Batty M. (2012).  Smart Cities, Big Data [Editorial]. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 2012, 39, 191- 193. DOI: 10.1068/b3902ed ·                     Batty, M. (2013b) The New Science of Cities. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ·                     Gehl Studio. (2015). Public life diversity toolkit: a prototype for measuring social mixing and economic integration in public space. Knight Foundation. ·                     Gehl Architects & EMBARQ. (2011). Istanbul Public Space Public Life. ·                     Gehl, J. & Svarre, B. (2013). How to Study Public Life. Washington: Island Press. ·                     Gehl, J. (1987). Life between buildings: Using public space. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York. ·                     Gehl, J. (2007). Public spaces for changing public life. Travlou P. and Thompson C.W. (eds.). Open Space: Open People, 3-20. ·                     Gehl, J. (2010). Cities for People. Island Press: Washington. ·                     Geography. GeoJournal (69), 211-221. DOI: 10.1007/s10708-007-9111-y. ·                     Goodchild, M. F. (2007). Citizens as Sensors: The World of Volunteered ·                     Gordon, E., & de Souza e Silva, A. (2011). Net locality: Why location matters in ·                     Morrison, J., Calvium (2019). A Definition of Digital Placemaking for Urban Regeneration. Retrieved date: 29/10/2019. Retrieved from: https://calvium.com/a-definition-of-digital-placemaking-for-urban-regeneration/ ·                     Morrison, J., Calvium. (2018). Digital Placemaking for Urban Development. ·                     Project for Public Spaces (PPS). (2005). What makes a Successful Place? http://www.pps.org/reference/grplacefeat/ ·                     Project for Public Spaces (PPS). (2015). Placemaking: What if we built our cities around places? https://assets-global.website-files.com/5810e16fbe876cec6bcbd86e/5a6a1c930a6e6500019faf5d_Oct-2016-placemaking-booklet.pdf ·                     Project for Public Spaces (PPS). (2016).  What is Placemaking? What if we built our communities around places? https://www.pps.org/category/placemaking ·                     Silberberg, S. (2013). Places in the Making- How placemaking builds places and communities. Departments of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. https://dusp.mit.edu/cdd/project/placemaking ·                     Spek, S. van der. (2008). Tracking Technologies-An Overview. In J. Schaick J. and S. Spek (Eds.), Urbanism on Track: Application of Tracking Technologies in Urbanism 1, (pp. 25-34). IOS Press. ·                     Townsend, M.A. (2013). Smart Cities Big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia. W.W. Norton & Company. ·                     Whyte, W.H. (1980). The social life of small urban spaces. Conservation Foundation.
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Course Schedules
Week	Contents	Learning Methods
1. Week	Introduction to the course Identification of the groups	Oral Presentation
2. Week	Presentation: Placemaking -and Liveability in uurban spaces. -Observational Site analysis tools	Presentation
3. Week	Technical excursion to project site	Technical excursion
4. Week	Discussion on the findings and the usability of digital tracking apps Analysis of the collected data & Representation	Data Presentation
5. Week	Introduction to GIS Viewing the spatial dataset (projecting counterpoint app. data)	Data Presentation , Discussion
6. Week	Introduction to GIS Creating the spatial datasets Data categorization	Data Presentation , Discussion
7. Week	Map secondary data sources (urban maps) and sosocial media data	Data Presentation , Discussion
8. Week	Analysis poster submission	Submission
9. Week	Presentation: Successful Public Open Space (POS) Designs Case Studies	Presentation
10. Week	Conceptual Phase idea generation	Drawing, Critics
11. Week	Urban furniture design phase Design development – Form generation, function and its interaction with public space- people	Drawing, Critics
12. Week	Parametric design Digital Fabrication methods and form generation using digital tools	Lecture
13. Week	Representation of the design product through the extended reality (AR/VR) Future projection about extended reality use in design	Drawing, Lecture
14. Week	Final revisions- critics	Drawing, Critics
15. Week	Final revisions- critics	Drawing, Critics
16. Week	Final revisions- critics	Drawing, Critics
17. Week	Final Presentation and delivery of project Submission (A02): Urban furniture poster-prototype submission	Submission

Assessments
Evaluation tools	Quantity	Weight(%)
Midterm(s)	1	30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations	1	30
Final Exam	1	40

Program Outcomes PO-1 Within the architectural discipline,has local,regional, national and international knowledge regarding different space planning issues related to interior architectural design and planning. PO-2 Owns to set up a substructure for design proposals for people and community oriented , cultural sensitible and environmental genesis in the related field. PO-3 Improves skill in developing design concept and planning. Acquaint with defining and investigating special problems on different space planning and design issues. PO-4 Develops creative, novel, aesthetical and unique problem solving alternatives related to different space planning issues in the light of abstract and concrete concepts. PO-5 Makes valuation on knowledge and skill in the relevant field by critical thinking and by dialectic decision method. PO-6 Has self confidence and competence while carrying on a work in the relevant field, plans research projects within this period, takes part in application projects, take mutual and individual responsibilities in interdisciplinary projects. PO-7 Expresses oneself written, verbal and visual to be in collaboration with the related corporation in the relavant field. PO-8 Has competence in using at least one computer aided drawing program as required by the relavant field. PO-9 Has multidimensional line of sight for economical, environmental and communal sustainability norms and standards in the relevant field. PO-10 Within human-environment relationship has respect to social and cultural rights, has conscious competence in making decision on the protection of cultural heritage and natural property PO-11 Recognizes national and international values in art and design. PO-12 Recognizes ethics and aesthetics in art and design. PO-13 Knowing the duties and authorities of the profession, has competence in the protection of natural and cultural values, pays attention to occupational health and safety, offers solution to increase space quality. PO-14 Has knowledge of norms, standards, laws and regulations of the profession.

Learning Outcomes LO-1 To improve the ability of percieving the physical and social environment LO-2 To improve the ability of abstracting data which is collected from environment and transferred to digital environment LO-3 To improve the ability of desinging within the environmental datas LO-4 To improve the ability of producing a building which is up to created ideas on students mind LO-5 To draw and make presentation of a building with using computer aided design tools

Course Assessment Matrix:

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