The Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department, English Program, Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), Istanbul Gelişim University (IGU), has comprehensively renewed its elective course pool for the 2025–2026 academic year in order to advance contemporary education in interior architecture and environmental design. The department aims to provide students with new horizons in both theoretical and practical fields by taking into account global trends in space design, environmental sustainability, technological advancements, and cultural values.
Among the new elective courses are:
1. IAE359 Indoor Environmental Control Systems
2. IAE361 Urban Identity and Cultural Sustainability
3. IAE365 Global Environmental Issue
4. IAE366 3D Digital Visualization in Interior Architecture
5. IAE368 Sensory Spaces
6. IAE369 Algorithmic Design Studies
7. IAE370 Artificial I7.ntelligence-Supported Space Design
8. IAE371 Flexible Furniture and Ergonomics
9. IAE372 Design of Disaster-Resilient Spaces
10. IAE373 Design of Exhibition and Performance Spaces
11. IAE374 Architecture of the Future
12. IAE375 Biophilic Design and Nature-Compatible Spaces
13. IAE376 Urban Interior
14. IAE377 Housing Question and Policies
15. IAE378 Environmental Psychology
16. IAE379 Finishing Building Technologies and Materials
17. IAE380 Interior Micro Landscape Configurations
18. IAE382 History of Furniture
19. IAE460 Restoration Methods and Applications in Cultural Heritage Structures
These courses are designed not only to enhance students’ fundamental design skills but also to enable them to specialize in some of the most critical contemporary and future issues such as sustainable design, digital modeling and simulation, AI-supported space production, ergonomics, disaster-oriented spatial planning, cultural heritage preservation, and environmental psychology. While learning to create environmentally conscious and user-centered interior solutions, students will also gain an interdisciplinary perspective, allowing them to engage with architecture, urban planning, engineering, and the social sciences.
With this comprehensive academic framework, it is aimed that graduates will not only stand out at the national level but also emerge as innovative, competitive, and visionary interior architects on international platforms. Furthermore, it is planned that students will acquire the professional background necessary to produce creative solutions to global challenges such as urban identity, housing policies, the climate crisis, cultural diversity, and technological transformation.
