The Role of Visual Arts in Improving the Quality of The Urban Environment Case Study: The Area around Golestan Palace

Khademi, Shirin; Sharifzadeh, Mohammadreza; Ardalani, Hossein; Aref, Mohammad

The Role of Visual Arts in Improving the Quality of The Urban Environment Case Study: The Area around Golestan Palace

Document Type : Original Research

Authors

S. khademi ¹

M. Sharifzadeh ²

H. Ardalani ³

M. Aref ⁴

¹ PhD student of philosophy and art; Central Tehran Branch; Islamic Azad university; Tehran; Iran

² Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts, Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy of Art, Faculty of Art and Architecture, Hamadan branch, Hamadan, Iran

⁴ Associate Professor of Faculty of Arts, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Problem: A look at the history of the presence of art in public spaces shows that with the change of the paradigm of public art from artist-oriented art to the creation of society-oriented art and audience-oriented art, the choice of the type of public art and the environmental qualities affected by it appear more important. What threatens urban spaces today is the weak connection between the building components of a place, which cannot meet the needs of citizens.

Target: The current research aims to investigate the effect of visual art on environmental quality and tries to create the necessary environmental quality in the design of future urban spaces by experts.

Method: This research is developmental-applied in terms of type, and in terms of method, it has a nest-to-nest combination. To answer the research question, the qualitative research method is used in a nest-by-nest quantity. The statistical population is divided into two quantitative and qualitative parts. In the qualitative group of the statistical population, there were 14 experts who were selected by the snowball method. In the statistical population of quantitative research, the sample size is 180 people based on Cochran's formula and random sampling.

Result: The analysis of the results indicates that according to the results of multivariate regression, the component of visual richness with the value of (1.000) has the highest factor contribution, in the second order, the component of enjoying the environment with the value of (0.920) And the lowest is related to the component of improving the individual sense of belonging with the value (0.244). The special attention of urban designers regarding the structure of spaces and the use of extraction measures from the impact of visual arts components in urban spaces in different scales can increase the quality of urban environments.

Keywords

art

visual arts

urban environment quality

Golestan Palace

Subjects

Urban Scape

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