COLLAGE IN URBAN DESIGN: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF DESIGN THINKING

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Although collage has been widely discussed as a design method in architecture and landscape architecture, the use of collage in urban design needs further discussion. Apart from being an art form and technique beyond the physical act of collage, as in the transition between “painting and sculpture”, collage has widespread use in visual arts, design, music, literature, and photography. While collage is taken further with modern painting, it also affects the perception of modernist space in architecture and urbanism within conceptual, theoretical, and practical frameworks. Although it occupies an essential place in urban design practices, further theoretical research on the subject is required to understand the potentials, limitations, and boundaries of collage. The study aims to comprehend further the use of collage in urban design as a method. Collage can be construed with an idea of seeking the image of the place, which is already in the designer’s mind or the ones to be explored in the process of production. Despite working on the two-dimensional surface, collage may help revitalize and bring forth the concept, program, and material of the place by resembling the components of actual space; moreover, it may evoke new ways of perceiving the space within imagination processes for the designer. Considering the emerging involvement of collage in the contemporary urban design practice, the study assumes the increasing influence of the method in urban design thinking. That signifies the potential use of collage as an innovative design method in urbanism. To test this hypothesis, the study conducts a design analysis that involves a number of design practitioners who work with collage as a design method in their design processes. The notion has the potential to open up a new discussion and highlight the idea of extending the boundaries of conventional mediums and methods of urban design.

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Collage, Visual Arts, Architecture, Urban Design, Design Thinking

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B. Sönmez, “COLLAGE IN URBAN DESIGN: A CRITICAL REVIEW OF DESIGN THINKING,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2022.