Teaching Humanities in Architecture Education: Investigating the Potentials of Interactive Photography Exposition as an Inquiry-Based Learning Tool

If education could be considered the profession of the utilization of knowledge, then this would be difficult to pass on, especially when we talk about human sciences. In such disciplines, it is critical to develop students’ ability to reflect philosophical contemplation, theories, and different themes on the real life. Consequently, education in humanities is a process through which the student and the lecturer alike are immersed in the reviewing and making of knowledge. Therefore, this research aims at investigating the potentials of the interactive photography exposition as an inquiry-based learning tool. The study methodology depended on carrying out an educational experiment where an interactive photography exposition was held as a learning and assessment tool within the curriculum of “Humanities in Landscape Architecture.” The study ended up with the idea that the interactive photography exposition experience promoted the making of knowledge; addition and transformation of the preexisting knowledge occurred through different phases of the immersive experience of photographs and themes interrelation and contrasting.