Criticism In Design Studio: Over Actors, Atmosphere, Channels

Abstract

Design education being the heart of the studio idea can be regarded as a common discourse, but on the other hand, it is possible to regard 'criticism' as the heart of the studio. Lots of variables like the necessities of design process timeline, structure of the student group, developmental properties of different class level and variables like components in the design subject, effect the interaction and formation of criticism style between the student designer, studio instructor and other student designers. In design education, because of these reasons, there are different criticism styles like self-criticism, one to one criticism, desk criticism, peer criticism, panel criticism and closed jury criticism which has different advantages, disadvantages and outcomes. In this study, criticism phenomenon in design studio will be evaluated with classification over actors, atmosphere and channels.

Keywords

• criticism
• types of criticism
• atmosphere of criticism
• design education
• studio
• jury