Perception of seasonal change in plant designs by university students

Abstract

This study is aimed to determine visual per-ception of seasonal changes. Images involving plant design were chosen from the central campus of Atatürk University. Totally 81 parti-cipants were asked to evaluate the images presented to them from the perspective of predetermined parameters. It was found that images taken in autumn received higher scores among others and statistically significant differ-ences were determined between autumn and other seasons. The highest scores were given to images taken on three different scenes (B, F and J) in autumn, while the images representative of winter taken on the same two scenes (F and J) and another different scene (E) received the lowest scores. A group of images taken from one area (G) received very close scores to each other. This area showed no colour effects while the effects of space and depth are dominant in all three seasons.