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.