Abstract:

Landscape architecture is a discipline that designs open spaces for people's needs and preferences. When designing open spaces, landscape architects must first focus on user-focused, distinctive and creative designs. For this reason, landscape architectural education should be taught to students about design and creativity skills.  In this study, it is aimed to determine the effect of the 'Natural Structures and Design' course to improve the creativity of the students; that is taught in the 4th semester during the education in the Department of Landscape Architecture in Karadeniz Technical University is examined. The main aim of the course is to teach the students that there is an infinite number of guiding, perfect designs for the problems in the nature, and that they can inspire and design appropriate creative designs. Thus, the reasons for designing open spaces that are one of the greatest problems of ours, which are the same and which are not an identity, are taught to students on a basis and encouraged to design solutions to this problem.   In this context, a questionnaire was prepared for students who did not take the 'Natural Structures and Design' elective course (30) and those who did not take the course (30) to make creative designs in project courses. Thus, it has been tried not to determine whether there is any difference in the creativity levels of the students taking the course or not. As a result, it was revealed that students who know the nature emulation approach are less able to make creative designs according to the students who do not know.

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