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This study aimed to deal with the oral history method, which is outside the dominant educational patterns in interior architecture education, in a course content at the undergraduate level, and included the application example and its outputs. Preliminary examples of oral history methodology in interior architecture education and field literature were carried out by the author of this research. With this study, it is aimed to investigate and discuss the added value of the oral history method to education and literature in terms of theory and practice. The main purpose of the study is to enrich the creative thinking process with a content produced through socio / spatial history in the course contents within interior architecture education. Thus, the oral history method itself has been considered as an alternative tool in interior architecture education. The research was carried out with thirty, fourth-year undergraduate students who were continuing their education in the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in Başkent University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design in 2018-2019 Fall Semester, and a fourteen-week research included the production process. The method of the study included mixed methodology. In this context, three main stages were included in the research strategy of the article, in the data evaluation stage, and were followed weekly in the teaching method. Introducing the oral history method itself and its tools to the students, and the production of representation based on imagination and theoretical argument through historical reference, respectively, were carried out in this course. The contextual boundary of the study was determined by the director, and a study area centered in Ankara, Etimesgut formed the research area of the students. The act of designing in the creative process itself has provided the contact of the student group in the educational process, which is the basis of this article, with the social structure, and presented the observation of urban / public life and the whole of its spatial investigations with a cultural background. In this context, the method of oral history and documentation contributed to the study as a critical platform aiming to increase the theme of inter-domain relations. Considering the results of the course and the data of the field research, the inclusion of the oral history method in the content of interior architecture education has supported the creative way of thinking, increased spatial awareness, influenced the level of consciousness in terms of searching for the source of information, producing and sharing information, and encouraging students to think multi-faceted. has done. Beyond the building shell, spatial history could be discussed in terms of changing and renewal, and it has the potential to create new approaches. As a result, the need to study spatial history through differentiating methods and the realization of this requirement with an experimental content at the undergraduate level can present a new research area to the literature and form a basis for future studies.

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