Color: The importance of interior design as an assessment criteria and a course content proposal

Interior Design/Architecture is a profession that executes functional and aesthetic designs according to the requirements of people, and designs qualified space with physical and psychological aspects regarding space details. There are some essential design elements for interior design and one of them is color. According to the researches in the context of this study, a theoretic substructure is constituted about color, color and space perception, psychological influences of color and the place and importance of color in interiors. Although color has an important place in space and human interaction, it does not have required importance in interior design/architecture education programs in Turkey. In the context of this study, a workshop is conducted in order to evaluate the students' color knowledge and create a course content. When workshop practices are evaluated by experts and done statistical analysis, deficiencies of students' knowledge occur about color in interior. According to these deficiencies a course content is created. Correcting the deficiencies in interior design/architecture education will provide a qualified education and development of profession. With this course, which is created as a result of all the research and practices, is aimed to support education as a required course in education programs.