Session

Architecture and Spatial Planning

Description

The design case is applied to make a difference in living and to facilitate people's life, from product scale, architectural design to urban scale. A design practice should be able to respond to the user's cognitive and behavioral needs. Today, design solutions that can not respond to these needs are confronted as bad design.

Today, when the habits of consumer society and the low expectations of users are combined, it is inevitable to encounter kitsch phenomenon in design solutions. Kitsch is a term used to refer to banal, rugged, and boring design solutions made with sharps and commercial concerns. It is not easy to define Kitsch exactly, but we can recognize its representation as soon as we see it. It can also be said that the efficiency of design takes a thin line in terms of application results. The results below this line may be inadequate and bad designs, and those above may be overriding and kitsch. In this study, the examples which show the kitsch design from the bad design are put forward with the examples of product, architecture and urban scale in the eastern countries, especially taking the center of Europe.

Keywords:

Bad design, Kitsch, Design, Architectural design, Urban Design

Session Chair

Carolina Jaeger-Klein

Session Co-Chair

Ajhan Bajmaku

Proceedings Editor

Edmond Hajrizi

ISBN

978-9951-437-62-2

First Page

17

Last Page

23

Location

Durres, Albania

Start Date

28-10-2017 9:00 AM

End Date

28-10-2017 10:30 AM

DOI

10.33107/ubt-ic.2017.2

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Architecture Commons

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Bad Design to Kitsch: Examples from Eastern Point of View

Durres, Albania

The design case is applied to make a difference in living and to facilitate people's life, from product scale, architectural design to urban scale. A design practice should be able to respond to the user's cognitive and behavioral needs. Today, design solutions that can not respond to these needs are confronted as bad design.

Today, when the habits of consumer society and the low expectations of users are combined, it is inevitable to encounter kitsch phenomenon in design solutions. Kitsch is a term used to refer to banal, rugged, and boring design solutions made with sharps and commercial concerns. It is not easy to define Kitsch exactly, but we can recognize its representation as soon as we see it. It can also be said that the efficiency of design takes a thin line in terms of application results. The results below this line may be inadequate and bad designs, and those above may be overriding and kitsch. In this study, the examples which show the kitsch design from the bad design are put forward with the examples of product, architecture and urban scale in the eastern countries, especially taking the center of Europe.