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The incentive resources are triggering the development of ideas during the design process and play an important role in designers' structuring the design problem. This study aims to understand how the design problem-source relationship is established within the design process. Black Sea Technical University, the Department of Landscape Architecture, Environmental Design Project V course, the process is shown by focusing on the early stages in which conceptual approaches are determined, especially using inspiration sources.Design problem resolution process is combined with the course process, according to which the student’s conceptual approaches and inspiration sources are studied. This reflects how the same field is converted into different products with different sources of inspiration and conceptual approaches. The conceptual pafts, reports and images of the application projects that students deliver at the end of the semester have formed the material of the study. With the method of content analysis and a qualitative research approach, the concepts of design that students reflect and their sources of inspiration are determined, how they generate differences in their field-solution strategies. As a result, it is found that the sources of inspiration are directly related to the analyses that students conduct at the beginning of the design process; that the source of inspiration can be used by ecological, social, cultural and physical conditions/situations, and that they are revealed through the functions of the structures in the field of study, the physical or cultural characteristics of the field. Different concepts related to the same field have brought students to quite different scenarios; the events and spaces in the scenarios are also varied in this direction so that the designs are original.