Egyptian identity source of creative thought in interior design

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Assistant Lecturer, Department of Interior Design & Furniture, Faculty of Applied Arts, 6th October University

Abstract

Interior design is a technical  and scientific specialization has its own location within humanities sciences requiring thought, Design is intellectual  process depend on  analysis ,evaluation and making choices and  choose the best through specific methodology ,Creative thought is ability to generate innovative  ideas and clarify ,show it from thought to actual  reality it is an intellectual  process involves ideas and concepts to  find links between them .Thought  as a creative  concept has a value in design buildings based on the recipient s  sense of self and its role in influencing variables of society and its implications, Thought has Flexibility and unlimited thus it can be converted from one state to another. Egypt characterized by a cultural, religious ,heritage personality  and  featured intellectual   wealth appeared  over the ages, There  is no doubt that Egyptian identity  greatly influenced in  human s  thought ,Arts  generally  and  architectural  heritage in particular witness on the evolution of history  while it  produced by different periods of external and internal blocks , formations and  architectural elements  .Expressed  by  local  building  materials ,With the mutual influence of civilized ages for all time and place  ,It has produced a rich creative outcome of art and  heritage architecture, Highlighting  the importance of  focus on interior design as an urban product culture of society in its comprehensive  form and thus interest in the definition of the fundamentals of our cultural and  local  components as well as humanitarian and social  materials so down to deep  understand  to the values of society in the information age.
Designer can   think   in past, present and future. Shows  the importance of the interaction between the designer and his surroundings which is to understand the way of analysis idea, development and stripped off  that s for being the main source  of creative innovation which takes from  material substrate and  from fantasy  way to human production expressing the existence of  knowledge and creativity ,Affects  the thinking of society as a whole. Here the research  goes to clarification the role of creative and design  thought  for Egyptian  identity in interior design by creating an urban product characterized by investment heritage  vocabulary and creation a civilized environment strengthen the Egyptian identity and  location, time  affiliation which is a source of continuity of design  thought and the stability  of  societies.

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