Effect of Using Mind Maps & Amalgamation of Tradition Motifs for Developing Student's Skills To Create Contemporary Designs Proper For Hotels and Tourist Village's Upholstery

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Clothes and Textile Department, Faculty of Specific Education, Zagazig University, Egypt

Abstract

The research aims to take advantage of the method of teaching by 
mental maps to train the students to create designs that are
distinguished by originality and modernity by combining the 
decorations of the Jizani heritage and Islamic art to improve the
aesthetics of the designs of the furniture of tourist villages, in 
addition to educating officials of hotels and tourist villages on the
importance of using furniture of an Islamic heritage characterized
by originality and contemporary On heritage and its transmission 
between different societies, and the research sample consisted of 
two groups of students for the graduation project decision (five 
students for each group, one of them an experimental group and 
the other its control, as each group created ten designs using
Ramsete, and Photoshop was used to employ the designs. The
researcher has prepared a questionnaire form to find out the
opinions of specialists, pioneers and officials of tourist villages
on the proposed designs, and the research follows both the
descriptive and experimental analytical approach,and the researcher concluded that there are no statistically 
significant differences between the mean scores of the students in 
the control group and the experimental group Concerning the 
axes of the design questionnaire in medicine The pre-study, while
there are statistically significant differences between the mean
scores of the students in the experimental group in the pre and 
post application in terms of the effectiveness of using the mental 
maps strategy in favor of the post application, and there are also 
statistically significant differences between the mean scores of 
the students in the control group in the pre and post application in 
favor of the post application. Statistical significant differences 
between the mean scores of the female students in the 
experimental group in the pre and post application according to 
the axes of the questionnaire in favor of the post application, and 
there are also statistically significant differences between the 
mean scores of the control group students and the experimental
group students in the axes of the questionnaire in favor of the
experimental group, and this confirms that the teaching method 
with mental maps and merging between Decorations have had an 
effective impact on developing the skills and innovation aspect of 
the students, and the researcher recommends using the mind 
maps method in teaching on a larger scale to take advantage of 
its many advantages in teaching and design and the need to 
combine different heritage motifs and use them as a rich source
of quotation to enrich the aesthetics of innovative designs and to
revive the heritage and preserve it.

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