The impact of design studio's seating elements on the creative performance and the productivity of students

Seats that are used at home, at pre/middle/high schools, at universities, offices, and workshops were discussed and studied ergonomically, anthropometrically, and dimensionally by a huge number of researchers and scientists, we could find a huge data and studies that indicates the seat's problems, notions, essentials, and the seats standard dimensions, even these available data may be used to help us in choosing and selecting the right seat that is designed to support the activity we aim to do in different spaces. Hence, design studio seats were not discussed loudly by scientists and scholars before, and there is no authorized or published data that discussed the design studio seats, thus this thesis intended, and aimed to spot the light on the design studio's seats and their impact on the design student's creativity and productivity when performing a design work. For a design student, design studio work always encourages him/her to directly interact with any product and experience the users feeling, it encourages the design student to create, innovate and find solutions for design problems to improve product. Consequently, design studio is considered to be a tool of pedagogy that aims to teach design students to ideate, create, collaborate, and interact to innovate new products or projects, after getting the needed knowledge and critics. Introducing and discussing design students, design studio, and design studio education will be carried out throughout the content of the first chapter. As time goes by, using of a seats is longer limited to be used by the royal society. Seats have been a superior product design through different eras, the seat design passed in a historical and cultural revolution and evolution in its design and production. Thus, seats have different types, each is to designed to serve and support the body in different types of activities and spaces. Henceforth, further explanation will be addressed in the second part of this thesis. Seat's ergonomics is being a 'buzzy' word now a day, it means providing the seaters with the best facilities to enhance his/her level of performance and productivity while performing a work, while anthropometry addresses the physical ergonomics. Seat's ergonomics, anthropometry, and standard dimensions, discusses and find solutions that supports the human body with stating the guidelines for the human's healthcare in the workspace, that enhance the seated working human body to avoid risking health problems. Hence, design students physical and mental health problems in the design Page | IV studio was discussed as a root that may decrease their level of creative performance and productivity while working on a project in the design studio which is marked in the third chapter of this research. From the author's educational background in interior architecture and industrial design, the author researched design student's creative performance and productivity in the design studio as a collaborative, interactive, and educative workspace, that enhances design students to ideate, evaluate and experience the users feeling from an emotional behavior base. Yet, an evolutionary discussion showing the seating elements in design schools and workshops from around the world between the years 1905 and 2015 were obtained and analyzed in chapter four. A research which was assembled to two study types were implemented. In the first study type 6 different seats from 5 different design schools in Turkey were measured and analyzed. The second study type, was executed with a purposive sampling method, which was implemented in same 5 official/private universities in Turkey, between 125 subjects, surveying design student's ethically in order to evaluate their user experience, emotional behaviors, and health problems from using the seats they are using in the design studio they study and work inside, also a dimensional study resulting and showing the measured 6 seat's average dimension and were compared to the standard dimensions, showing the total differences dimensions between them that showed significant dimensional differences are carried out and showed throughout the content of chapter five and six Last but not least, the research and study's conclusion, discussion, limitations and recommendations for further studies were given in the last chapters.