The Experience of Emergency Remote Teaching in the Interior Design Studio

Abstract

To the changing social structure in parallel with technological developments, it is essential to reveal the principal values of design education. Hence, this questioning has become necessary for the pandemic causing the interruption of face-to-face education worldwide. The approach towards design education develops with the understanding of the structure of design act. Today, this structure contains data on the need to develop critical thinking skills to provide design education with contemporary approaches. Hence, the study examined design education's purpose and the design studio's role in realizing it through the concept of crit. The environments in which crit emerges, one of the central pedagogical tools of design studio education, have been evaluated as crit environments with overlapping or diverging but fundamentally complementary features through literature review. This review has been used to examine the interior design studio course, which has moved to the online environment during the pandemic and had to use emergency remote teaching model through a case study.