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09.11.2020
MICROPHONE LAST TIME(!) IN STUDENTS!!!!
Campus microphone has ended.
On the last day of the campus microphone started with Osmangazi University students. “Accessibility started to increase in the new formation. Although the social sphere seemed to have decreased, workshops and conversations increased; far away became close. Before the pandemic, activities set up in a physical context have been moved online. During the process of closing home with the pandemic, everyone started to improve and certain races started. The activities that we attended to be there left their place to the activities we opened and listened to in the background. It is a situation that varies from person to person, which changes our spatial experience. " The group started their speech by saying, and started to examine this situation spatially. Is space really space with the kind of boundaries we can perceive? they directed the question. And they defined space itself as being transformable, having overlaps within itself.Saying that the paradigm shift is the harbinger of transformation, the group added: The rhythms of the spaces differ at different times. During the pandemic period, the almond grout remained desolate and we cannot say that it has no rhythm, it has changed, it slowed down and calmed down a bit. We are in the formation where the rhythm changes. We start to design without being physically present in the virtual environment. Doesn't a field exist with the presence of a space user? We think that only bricks create space, but social media is also a place. They ended their words about these new situations and spatial perceptions brought about by the pandemic as follows: There are formations and potentials brought about by every new destruction.
Later, Istanbul Arel University students talked about the effects of planning on architecture, and the indirect and direct effects of architecture. They started with the concept of the city and questioned our handling of the city. They discussed the concept of identity and focused on cultural and urban memory spaces. They discussed dealing with the problems experienced in planning and the indirect effects of planning on people.
Middle East Technical University student Güney Gürsu Tonkal, who later made a presentation under the title of Designer's Geography, focused on the borders in the screened world and digitalization. Talking about the effects of this digitalization on geography and architecture, expansions, ruptures and ties, Tonkal said that the geography of architecture shows a stretch in two spaces between digital and reality. He ended his speech with his views on the mediator design.
Thanks to the festival team for giving students the right to speak on such a platform under a headline like a campus microphone.
Cycling from South to North on the Water Trail Bicycle Ride on the Water Trail from South to North (Yarimburgaz, Sazlıdere, Sazlıbosna):
Founded in 2020, IMM Istanbul EuroVelo; Under the coordination of Merve Akdağ Öner and Engin Aktürk, the participants set out to follow the route of Yarimburgaz, Sazlıbosna, Sazlıdere, which follows the water geography of the city. Within the scope of the festival, the 20 km route starting from Yarimburgaz, the first settlement area to be discovered in Istanbul and ending in Sazlıbosna Village, was driven with a small team of 10 and shared online. The broadcast, which was made by examining the surrounding landscape elements and cultural asset values, was transferred to the festival live from The Circle Youtube account.
The tour team is at the Yarimburgaz Caves! The tour team listened to the archeologist Zeynep Kelpetin from the Cultural Heritage Department and Merve Akdağ Öner told us about the activities of IMM Eurovelo in this region. After the live broadcast and lunch break in Damascus Village, the team set out for the ancient city of Bathonea. We listened to Bathonea from Specialist Archaeologist Selen Kanat after some small disruptions on the air here. After the last stop of the route, the tour team returned to the Yenikapı bike house and completed their open route.
You can access the live broadcast of the open route later on the circle youtube account.
The workshop, which lasted for 3 days, was presented with the scenario of the products. The workshop started with brainstorming with the questions of the executives and the ideas of the participants were completed, including their designs. A handbook will be created to create the design archive.
Designs
Zehra Suner - Emergency Access and Living Centers
İrem Kalaycı - Post-Disaster Space Design
Melike Güler - Shelter
İpek Eştürk - Compact Education and Distance Socialization
Arda Bekgöz - Breaking Points / Transition from Space to No Space: Parasitic Structures
Burcu Kiriş - Earthquake Habitats
Ramazan Mert Çepni - Underground Memory
You can find detailed designs at
It was a very enjoyable workshop, I would like to thank all participants and coordinators. See you at another event.
METU Studio V is a community established with the aim of providing intellectual and social development by focusing on design and architecture and at the same time generating innovative ideas in a collective environment.
They opened our new normals, which started with the epidemic, to discussion with the title of "Watching the epidemic days for tomorrow." How these new normals will affect us, can we be like the old without applying these transformations? Or how should it be after the epidemic? They said that they examined some of the concepts they encountered while asking their questions and wanted to share them with us.
They started their presentations with a short video that reflects our normal life practices before and after the epidemic. (You can reach the video from this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZrk5pNLt3E&ab_channel=StudioVODT%C3%9C
"We realized that we were constantly watching the epidemic days and thinking about the future, even when talking among ourselves, we were constantly comparing the before and after"
When we thought about this sentence set up by the Studio V team, we felt that we all met on a common ground without realizing it. This sentence showed that even when we are all confined to our homes and our social communication is restricted, we become hoping for the same things thanks to the pandemic spaces we are in directing us. showed us.
"I used to look at the sea while wandering in Kordon, now I look at people"
He reminded that the relationship established with the space has changed incomparably with the old life, the meaning of the space has begun to be reproduced again and again, and that the concept of 'space' is a convenient space, and that we can better direct this space
In their presentations, they also discussed with the participants the questions of how these places, which are among the public spaces that have lost their effectiveness and become idle, have changed during the epidemic and how they will change afterwards.
The team consisting of Semra Uygur, Melike Altınışık, Celal Abdi Güzer, Ömer Selçuk Baz and Nevzat Sayın, who came together with the 2019 Ytong Architectural Idea Competition on "Plan B: An Architecture School Against the Current" last year, and the "Paradigm Shift" Na (Da The panel, moderated by Neslihan Şık, started with the presentation of the projects that won the equivalent prize in the competition. He left the floor to Abdi Güzer, saying that we will discuss his education, how to learn architecture, how to be taught.This brought some expansions with it. We were caught off guard for such a situation. We tried to apply the education models we have. " He said that they had undergone a change in the infrastructure of the course, the subject of the project and the way of teaching the lesson. He said that distance education provides new experiences, and the pandemic has started to eliminate the physical boundaries and the access of students to various opportunities is equalized. “In short, it shows that we are entering a new era. We actually entered, but we weren't aware. The pandemic has created a break, making us realize the old and the new. It is aimed at questioning architectural education. It is an environment open to change and reflection after we will talk for a while. The pandemic made things visible and added new discussion topics. " he left the floor to Nevzat Sayın.Sayın started by saying that he was studio-centered, prone to physical work and saw distance education as a shortcoming. “It is not acceptable for every student to not have a desk. University is not just a place where education is learned. It is experiencing the first of many things. Understanding life is where your idea comes from. A reductionist understanding of equality is very wrong. I think it is a huge deficiency. " “It's a pity, something that drives my new normal-called demons to my head.
Therefore, as far as I can follow, my thoughts are getting stronger with the studies and the results. It is possible to conduct theoretical lessons digitally. But I have concerns that the project can be done this way… It is very dangerous for people who are in their 20s to get stuck in their cocoons.Talking about a flange is a difference between listening to the imagination of architectural education and making it a traveler. I see it like squeezing architecture into a tiny place. I think contact is necessary for education. " Well, if there is no contact, what to do? The question of whether to digitize it was directed to Melike Altınışık. "On the one hand, yes, I have a tendency to digital tools, but I agree with Mr. Nevzat. The studio should happen by living together. Our coming together in the digital environment come together mentally. We are starting a mental journey. We develop ideas with architecture, we provide our way of expressing thought by using digital programs. I use digital as a tool but I use it to make my life easier. It is no different from a pencil for me. Digital environments are places where thought is displayed, not produced. " Semra Uygur, on the other hand, conveyed her views on this subject with the following words: “Actually, getting practical skills and traveling is an important part. Traveling on purpose is a more instructive environment.In the competition, what they demand about the architectural space is about freedom. An environment that can be liberated. The environment we are in is an environment that makes it condemned to the environment they are in. The proximity of distances may be for the verbal function, but it is an important situation in architectural education that architectural education spaces are also a situation that opens the horizons of students. I fear that being positive about this process will further increase these training spaces after the process is over. All education demands places of freedom. Studying in these places in architecture sets the student's horizons. " Later, Ömer Selçuk Baz said, “This medium, this world can only be used as a supportive one and never itself. In a sense, an advantageous moment. Going and looking somewhere, putting the situation of being alone on the table again… During the whole pandemic process, we are ultimately doing business regarding the physical space. You are in a spaceless medium, you imagine the place. So complicated. It was the most important production period of my life for me.
It was a time of being on your own, creating your own time. That might be a little advice. It is necessary to use this process efficiently. " He expressed his opinions and experiences on the subject with his words. The team continued to discuss these issues. From time to time, tense moments occurred between the two friends. As the discussions progressed at this speed, comments piled up when Semra Uygur asked the students watching how they felt. Neslihan Şık said that the deadline was over and despite Nevzat Sayın's proposal to extend the time, some of the questions asked to the team were answered and the panel reached the end.
The panel titled “35 mm Space: Cuts, Breaks, Slips” aiming to discuss the intersections between the concepts that shape the cinema and architecture alliance realized in cooperation with Mubi and the concepts produced by Yeşim Ustaoğlu cinema, moderated by Işıl Baysan Serim, Asu Beşgen, Havva Alkan Bala and Aynur Yeşim Ustaoğlu with their guests took place.
Baysan first talked about the content of the panel and proceeded under the following four headings: first, the paradigm shift, which is the top title of the panel, secondly, the existence, experience, perception and cinematographic relationship in Yeşim Ustaoğlu Cinema, the third topic is the concepts of the film components and finally Ustaoğlu's future projects.
‘‘ That's how I created my venue. Looking for days, looking at the light, touching the soil itself ... "
When Ustaoğlu films are examined in chronological order, the use of mobile phones while using products such as tape recorders and cassette players in their first films, and the fact that Istanbul is not seen like this at the moment, shows us the development process and what a paradigm shift we have experienced. But he says that his handling of characters as very human and life-oriented accelerates the process of understanding and writing, and is still a powerful concept. After expressing his thoughts in the fields of architecture and cinema, with the sentence "I started to do what I am doing in cinema, I started to do it in architecture", he stated that he actually carries the common points and the same approach of architecture and cinema. And Havva Alkan Bala added, "Cinema and architecture, these two disciplines are things that completely touch existence."
In the third part of the panel, when proceeding through Ustaoğlu films, he stated that there is always ambiguity in the sub-theme and he always touches on the concept of ambiguity. Asu Beşgen, on the other hand, from his works on Ustaoğlu films, as "Travel-Travel", "City-Country", "Migration-Nomad", "Irrelevant-Landless", "Belonging-Non-Belonging" concepts; He gave examples of cuts, ruptures and slips on doors, windows, stairs and borders: railings.
Finally, Yeşim Ustaoğlu stated that it is too early and gave the good news of her work named "Remaining". And he emphasized that young people should always follow their intuition, which he did, and if there was an urge, they should follow it. And Işıl Baysan suggested the films selected within the scope of the Istanbul Architecture Festival in cooperation with MUBİ, which is his own selection, upon the question about the films. You can access it at https://www.istanbulmimarlikfestivali.com/mubi. Thanks to this panel, let us, architecture students, have expressed our desire to include perhaps more architectural films with Turkish subtitles on the platform.
