Abstract
The basic design course is carried out in most institutions providing design education regardless of the area. The goal of this training process is to introduce students to the design elements and principles and to carry out intellectual activities such as observation, perception, impression, experience, research, memory, evaluation, the emergence of creativity and the end with the product. The student is expected to gain competencies such as gaining a different perspective and freedom of expression by communicating with the field and using different materials with new meanings. During the lesson, the students get acquainted with a workplace (studio space) that they are not familiar with. It is aimed that students create original works with different materials and expression techniques, sometimes by doing individual and sometimes group works. It is the first time that the student encounters with the concept of design, observing the social–physical environment from a different perspective, discovering and developing the ability to produce forms. In this study, the experiences of two-dimensional and three-dimensional outcome products shared by the Biruni University Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department’s first-year students in the 'Basic Design I' course, which transfer the basic design elements and principles they learned during the semester to the final applications, are presented.
 
 Keywords: Basic design, design, studio space, experience, creativity.
Highlights
The basic design education course is a course carried out in a very large part of the higher education institutions providing design education, in the first year of the education process, regardless of the area
Basic design education is still being applied in the world with different names such as ‘Visual Design, Foundation Design, Applied Design, Introduction Design, Gestaltung Lehre, Formunt Gestalt, Designo Communicatione’ (Gurer, 1999)
In consideration of these basic principles that Itten has applied for the basic design course, on the project chosen within the scope of Biruni University’s Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department, 2019–2020 academic year fall semester, ‘Basic Design I’ course, students were asked to program a process that takes creative results to the product, using the concepts they have experienced throughout the period
Summary
The basic design education course is a course carried out in a very large part of the higher education institutions providing design education, in the first year of the education process, regardless of the area This process begins with a study system in which the student discovers his/her creative identity; It is a different experience that includes a series of thought processes such as visual, auditory, getting ideas, understanding, perception and impression. Basic design education has been centred on vision since its century-old history, has tried to systematise the existence of a visual language and has developed its methods . This visual and psychological language created with the dimensions of art education, learnability and trainability. Has been used as a tool in understanding art and creating an infrastructure for creative artistic activities (Seylan, 2019)
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