GLOBALIZATION VERSUS REGIONALIZATION: CHANGE IN CLIMATE, CHANGE IN EDUCATION

1. GLOBALIZATION VERSUS REGIONALIZATION:CHANGE IN CLIMATE, CHANGE IN EDUCATION Prepared by Sule Aybar, MA

2. QUESTIONS What is the meaning of globalization in building industry ? What impact does it have on the environment? What impact does it have on the education? How does it change the climate? How does it affect the profession of architecture, as well as interior architecture? Where are we, and what will be the next?

3. Etymological explanation A globe is a large and rounded mass A MASS or A MESS ? & The Meaning of Globalization is to make everything worldwide in scope and application (Webster, 1990).

4. GLOBALIZATION In building industry; Technology makes high tech, high rise and glass buildings to be seen everywhere, And ties the buildings in place and time regardless of the Local & climatic conditions Use of technology in Designing the buildings, conform to the limits of technology, not the ecology.

5. GLOBALIZATION:Privilege of Technology It is questioned whether the design was appropriate for the context.

6. Privilege of Technology I)- Firstly, It brought the sameness to the built environment, that contextual requirements lost importance to technological advances: Global buildings, with an identity of designer in favor, not an identity of regions !

7. Privilege of Technology II)- Secondly, It also cause the CO2 emissions. For example; an office space with 20 employees, would emit 111 tons of CO2 annually!

8. What is not changing? The principles and components of design! Design follows the climate! Principles and components of architectural design should be applied to every building at any climatic regions of the world, with the privilege focus given to regional requirements

9. REGIONALIZATION & Its requirements Commodity, firmness and delight, as stated by Vitruvius, in the first century, BC. We, as designers of the built environment, must value the differences and design built environment with these requirements

10. Commodity, Firmness & Delightin 21 st Century Commodity and delight correspond to the comfort of human being as it is related to thermal conditions, quantity of light and to contextually aesthetical buildings respectively. Commodity has also been coupled with firmness and defined, as to address to the adaptability of time, the structural and environmental strategies that make buildings environmentally reliable and sustainable. (Stemear, Steane, 2004).

11. What is Sustainability?

12. Sustainable? / Ecological?

13. Are all these improvements actually advancements ? As the designer of buildings We have a responsibility to our clients, to our environments and to our next generations Because it is our world! If we do not take responsibility then who will?

14. Some of the responsible Parties

15. WHAT IS THE ROLE OF THE UNIVERSITY? If the attitude is towards the climate, sustainability and ecology, and technology with replaceable energy! It requires more awareness ! and awareness raises with education ! So That is the role of university ! “Change in Climate”- “Change in Education”

16. What actually need to be changing? Atitude towards the consumptive desire to Build, Destroy, Dispose, Rebuild By use of unrenewable energy resources It should be replaced by Sustainable, glocal, unplugged building designs by use of renewable resources It should be the goal of design education !

17. What is Glocalization? Glocalization is a term joined from two terms “Global” and “local”. It combines Locality in meaning and values + up-to-date global technologies Ahmed (2006, p.293) Al-Qawasmi, J and Velesco, G V (2006), Changing Trends in Architectural Design Education, CSAAR, Morocco

18. What exactly is an “unplugged” building space?

19. Case Study: Where are we? I prepare a survey which measures level of importance of each design component, that students consider during their designs. This survey is given to the first and fourth years of Interior Design students at Bilkent University and also to the arbitrarily selected practicing architects with over ten years of experiences, in Ankara, Turkey. The main purpose : 1- To find differences between first and fourth year design student’s component choices, according to their importance level in their design process. 2- To learn how is the concept of sustainability effect the fourth year student’s design privileges.

20. FORM FOR THE SURVEY

21. Case Study:I- Level of Importance to the Components According to Bilkent University  IAED Students and Practicing Architects:

22. Case Study:I- Level of Importance to the Components According to Bilkent University  IAED Students and Practicing Architects:

23. I- Level of Importance to the Components According to Bilkent University  IAED Students and Practicing Architects: Table 3: Practicing Architects

24. II- Comparing First Year and Fourth Year IAED students of Bilkent University to the selected environmentally important components and the Aesthetics:

25. III) Comparing Two Componets for IAED fourth year Design Students at Bilkent University: Table 4: Pair Sample Test – Fourth Year Design Students

26. III) Comparing Two Componets for IAED fourth year Design Students at Bilkent University: Table 5: Paired Sample Test – Practicing Architects

27. IV- Comparing six components of first year and fourth year IAED students of Bilkent University:

28. Commentary According to the analyzed data, as shown through the tables and charts; I realized that sustainability is not a topic to be thought only once, and in one semester. There must be mandatory courses, specifically designed for design students, offered from related departments like Environmental, Chemical, Metallurgical and Material Engineering departments, and should begin as early as possible during their four-year educational period, to raise awareness ! There must be series of lectures which are given by the master professionals, related to ecological problems and solutions and these lectures should be attended by the students similar to the one credit orientation course required to be taken by the freshman students in order to graduate. Additionally, the most important point is to establish a mandatory series of courses, specifically design for the department of architecture, and interior architecture, which deals with ‘Unplugged-glocal’ issues, combined with small design projects.

29. The Last Word On the global scale, aside of the local activities related to ecological problems of our world, I believe that, there must be established and united institutions which control global warming – related to educational activities and building requirements in order to save the world, we live in. Otherwise, It will be a MESS not a MASS that we will be living on!