10.11.2020
Ege Sevinçli and Beyza Gürdoğan from Hop team have been at the festival to give us information about the mobile playgrounds established in different districts of Istanbul since March 2019. How do we set up hop, hop? Children of different ages; They were mobile parks built with recyclable materials such as cardboard, rope and fabric. The parks, which were first established starting with partner municipalities, started to grow with the contributions of IMM.
Hop Installed Hop Removed!
Hop Started Hop Finishing...
Before these mobile playgrounds were created, the team mentioned that the playmaker took lessons and went through learning processes such as observing without interfering with children's games. When setting up a mobile park; They explained the stages such as field selection, material selection, what kind of games can be played, simple basic precautions. The realized pilot hops were mentioned and the reason why these hops were called pilots was that they took place during the pandemic process. Hop's new volunteer members, with 17 rookies, 9 reserve and 9 captain members, are waiting for their team.
Finally, the children's generation activity was completed by explaining their experiences with children in mobile parks, the returns of the families and answering questions from the audience.
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Koray Aydın, Apostolon Poridis and Korhan Gümüş talked about the Greek Orphanage and its unknowns, which is the largest wooden structure in Europe, located in Istanbul Büyükada. First of all, information is given about the purpose of the orphanage, its completion date, location and architect. Its architect is Alexandre Vallaury, also known as the palace architect.
This building, which was originally designed as a hotel, has never been used as a hotel. The interior of the Greek orphanage in Büyükada, which was closed in 1964 after serving as an orphanage for 61 years, is in ruins due to years of neglect. Europe's largest and most magnificent wooden building is decaying. Today, this structure, which has some plans for its preservation, will face the danger of collapse if measures are not taken soon. This program, in which the history, unknowns, architectural details and current state of the building were discussed, enabled the audience to uncover a great mystery.
"An Islamic sultan's financing and financial and moral investment in an orthodox orphanage is a paradigm differentiation that we cannot understand today."
While discussing the paradigm shift that occurred when the Greek orphanage was built as a hotel in the past and later turned into an orphanage, it was also discussed how this orphanage building can be functional in today's paradigm and its place in the future paradigm. It was mentioned about the changing guests of the building over time, why it was emptied and the carrier system of the building. In addition, the good news was given that the ongoing survey projects of the Greek orphanage will be completed within 6-7 months.
Later, around the orphanage; They went on a small tour where they explained the details on the building. Although the building was built by the French architect of the time, attention was drawn to the Ottoman architecture details on it. It was also mentioned that a much simpler architecture was applied in addition to other wooden structures of the time. The team that entered the building, transferred the preserved parts such as the ballroom and the kitchen to the audience and the presentation was ended.
Greek Orphanage
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Harmony Conflicts Challenge Between Comprehension
The square workshop presentations between harmonies, conflicts and insights started at 15.00 with the evaluation of the online process. Mentioning that many people would not be able to attend the Festival if they were face to face in Istanbul, Yeşim Remembered, she talked about the advantages of the online process in this sense. Speaking in the 24-hour workshop, Yeşim remembered, "It was valuable to brainstorm for a day, to think about the square, to produce something." said. Reminding that they said that they will give small prizes to the winners on the first day of the workshop, Ervin Garip said, "If you do not make a presentation and meet the executive team on video, we will not give gifts." he joked. Interpreting the online process, Ervin Garip talked about the hierarchy established between actions and places, that this relationship came as a package, and the relationship between action, space and person.
Ervin Garip said that the places are changing as the lower layers of the conventional education system change in the online period, saying that the process transforms into an organism and defines different things, this situation positively shakes the system, and the development of such alternative relationships opens the education perspective, and in this sense, I thank all the friends who participated. Ebru Erdönmez took the word and said, "Our main goal was to create a discussion environment, we did not have a result-oriented expectation. Of course, we made an evaluation as a jury, but I enjoyed this process very much." said. Ebru Erdönmez added that I found the 24-hour issue very exciting, adding that I would like to repeat it. "If there was an environment where we came together for 24 hours, there could have been completely different results." Tülin Görgülü took the floor and thanked the team that carried out the organization and stated that the process was managed perfectly and left the floor to Serhat Ulubay.Serhat Ulubay said that I took care to attend meetings outside of our own workshop, and by talking about the efficiency of the digital gathering issue and connecting the subject to the workshop, "This environment has almost turned into a digital square ... In this sense, I thank everyone." said. After these speeches, the stage was left to the participants. Participants who made their presentations one by one stated that they had difficulties due to limited time.
CYBER FLANEURS IN THEIR OWN
Utopia The utopian rush, which stopped breathing, where the participants set up the city in their own utopia, navigated the maps, and gathered data online like a cyber flaneur, came to an end ... The executives started their presentations by introducing themselves to the audience on the live broadcast. It was mentioned that the workshop process and that there was a serious discussion environment on the online that the audience could not see.
On the first day of the workshop, four of the most prominent answers among the questions asked were selected to be used in the city story that the participants would create. Combining these words with various combinations, the participants determined which city the words corresponded to and entered them on the tables.
“A group that deals with the contrast, those who deal with the disappearance of time and culture, those who design a place for the unwarranted, those who think more abstractly in space, those who start out from human needs, those who start out from time stratification ... they shifted the fixed paradigm by achieving results."
" We divided the time as the 1st time 2nd time and the 3rd time. This city had its own laws.
“Utopia is a city dream, but a dystopia in today's cities example. "
dream remember belonging lost
"A passage that will keep children away from the chaos of the city"
Although our system, which could not withstand the shift of so many paradigms, occasionally tried to sabotage the students, no one could prevent the paradigm shift in the urban scale!
Today, the Miro table, which reflects the process very nicely, including fine details, has been examined. There are plenty of kite drawings, images, videos and gifs about the process in the Miro table.
Yuvacan Atmaca expressed the following about the Distant/less Kite workshop;
"During the pandemic process, we saw not only our own kite but also other people's kites in the sky, so we went to the common sky idea and processed it into our workshop"
"We have a Board in Miro and we have a blog in the same way. We have processed our process and products on these panels. These boards became our common sky. At the point we have reached today, we will talk by showing the ideas we share rather than making presentations."
Speaking about the workshop, Sidar Alışık expressed his own reflection of the process. Accustomed; "We produced the kites and our sky materially, but we also created a metaphor, the metaphor part is about the kite within us."
Distant/less Kite
Historical Traces and Virtual Cities: Istanbul scenarios
Historical Traces and Virtual Cities: Istanbul scenarios workshop came out again today to present the results of their 2-day workshop. When starting the presentation, they gave a small thank you to the festival team and then the team members talked about themselves. They talked about how they were a new collective, how they came together and what they did and what they wanted to do in line with their common interests.
In their presentations, which they started by explaining the information they gathered about virtual reality and their thoughts about the relationship between virtual reality and architecture, which was based on VR, they talked about the place of virtual reality in today's technology, why they are interested in this subject and the examples on this subject.
The Historical Traces and Virtual Cities workshop modeled a region from 3 maps of Istanbul (Goad Map 1906, Pervitich Map 1939, Today Istanbul Map 2020) in 3D with the help of the participants. The main purpose of this is to show us the urban transformation that the region has gone through in these 3 time periods in a virtual reality environment. Of course, while experiencing this experience, we find ourselves in a personalized piece of Istanbul, as the feelings and moods of the workshop participants who model that region are different. We try to read and understand each participant's own special scenario with the textures they assign and the sounds they assign. Although the final product has not been fully presented yet, the transition between scenarios we saw and the feeling of the video was enough to satisfy me. Of course, I would like to say that I am waiting for the final product with great curiosity. I hope this product will search for a workshop and V gate production in Turkey.
VR technology is a technology that can affect people in a very short time, and the increase in production in this area is something we should not miss. I think the participation and production in such workshops should definitely increase. I hope the Istanbul Architecture Festival and the co-leXer team will be a pioneer of this and we will see more comprehensive events in the near future.
The Co-leXer team impressed with their production motivation and interest in this subject throughout the workshop process. They gave the image that these motivations will never end, I think it is very appreciated that they take the risk of many difficulties especially in pandemic conditions and start the workshop process like all other workshops in this festival.
They thanked the festival team and ended their presentations. On behalf of my team, I would like to thank them for bringing this beautiful workshop to us.
The Bureau of Daily Life Detectives can be expressed as a research project in 2006 as a practice of creating a city representation by gamifying the process of production for the purpose of production and revealing creativity with certain rules.
People who aim not to map the city as it is, but to evaluate it with different perspectives and a specific stance and to create a visual narrative that can be read not only as a map reader but also from all sides are called daily life detectives.
Participants of this workshop themselves in the first stage ‘‘ What kind of detective am I? They created their own detective personas by asking the question. '' In the next process, they experienced and observed the place they were in through the detective persona they created, and completed their drawings for the exhibition that would be formed as a result of them. You can reach: http://ghdevdosyasi.mimarizm.com/
The Bureau of Daily Life Detectives
"Kite and freedom"
In the workshop presentation, a discussion was voiced under this heading: Is the kite breaking away from its owner and flying out more free? Or has he lost his freedom?
Yuvacan A, who expressed his opinion on the discussion: "It is a concept that can be defined when there are limits to freedom, the kite whose rope is broken will fly for a while and probably crash to the ground."
Sidar A; I consider the kite breaking off the rope as a freedom and I define it.
Merve Şule Y: If we think that we cut the kite and freed it, of course, it will lose all freedom by getting caught in an electric wire or a tree very soon.
Abdullah Ö: I want the kite to fly because I transform it, I am the kite in my kite matafour, and I dream that I am liberated.
In the following minutes of the workshop, the participants who produced kites by producing in the workshop shared their own experiences by explaining how they flew their kites and what they experienced.
"It was nice to share the virtual sky together ..."
The Distant / You Kite / Ma workshop, which ended with these words, left behind new ideas, studies and a wonderful sky created and created ...
Cin Ali in the Children's Garden
Selma Dölek, who is in charge of Cin Ali Museum in Ankara, attended this event, which attracted great attention of children, by connecting live from Cin Ali Museum. Speaking about the children's games created by Rasim Kaygusuz, the creator of Cin Ali's family and father, who is introduced in the museum, Dölek later showed the children the animation of the book titled "Cin Ali in the Children's Garden".
Selma Dölek told the story of the three elephants after a conversation with the children and asked the children to make inferences based on this story. Talking about the importance of such stories, Dölek explained that everything that was experienced is actually a story, and that everything we know existed in the past comes to this day with stories; She told the children that they could write a story of everything they observed around them and record everything they saw.
In this event, which ended with a Cin Ali song, all the children sang the song together and they all expressed that they had a lot of fun.
This event, which had a workshop on Monday evening, was broadcast for the audience today and received good reactions.
Small-Scale Spatial Discoveries
Small-scale spatial explorations workshop presentation started with playmaker Behice Özer and Simla Şanlı. First, they talked about why they were planning to edit games; The game was planned to be for everyone and not require expertise. By constructing the language of the game, it was aimed for people to enter the process of discovery and take on the spirit of explorer. Afterwards, the tools they referenced and inspired while editing the game were mentioned.
While talking about the games played for 3 days, the contents of the games and the observations of the explorers, they did not neglect to mention the words, questions, places and colors discovered. If you want to examine the small-scale spatial exploration game and make a small-scale spatial exploration https://www.instagram.com/kucukolcektekesifler/?hl=tr
You can reach at. Thanks to the game team for taking us on this beautiful discovery.
Lockdown Workshop Presentation
The concepts and mappings created / produced at the end of the workshop were brought together. And the dictionary was created.
A series of concepts was created that came together with various formations such as redesigning an existing concept, producing a concept that did not exist, creating a new concept from binary concepts, and bringing Turkish-English concepts together. The dictionary process created together with their productions enabled us to reconsider our daily life practices that changed with the pandemic and to examine our transformation / change. Many situations that arise, grow and take place within these practices; Thanks to the participants, he entered the dictionary under completely different concepts.
In the presentation, the workshop presentation, in which the participants took the right to speak, explained their productions through a dictionary, ended with the words of Hülya Turgut, which arouses curiosity about the third stage of the dictionary. The video shared at the end of the presentation was actually a video that summarizes their process and shows how rich they are.
The workshop, which I followed with the eyes of the student throughout the process, gave a new perspective in order to see and redefine how the "closure" issues experienced due to the pandemic reflect on our life practices, urban life. I would like to express my gratitude to the workshop leaders who continued the dictionary production process and brought us together with the concepts and mapping that will emerge with new situations.
You can follow the "lockdown_workshop" Instagram account in order to evaluate these concepts that go beyond their expressions and re-express them and to be able to follow or be a part of this production process, of which the workshop leaders are Hülya Turgut, Nagihan Açimuz İşbakan and Sena Serdaro, which perhaps paves the way for the production of other invisible concepts .
Behind Emissions, Beyond the Earth
Peter Clegg was the guest of the event "Beyond Declarations: Towards a New Low Carbon Architecture", the last foreign language panel of the Istanbul Architecture Festival, moderated by Selçuk Avcı and Ece Çakır Aidan, whose smiling faces we saw many times throughout the festival.
Peter Clegg, who lives on the West Coast of England, started by exemplifying Greta Thunberg's warning of carbon emissions to the elders and his current generation.
Referring to the Architects Declaration Organization, Peter Clegg stated that we are in something like "choose your crisis, find the solution" game; He divided the options into three: biodiversity crisis, global warming crisis, covid 19 crisis.
The Declaration of Architects has undertaken tasks such as raising urgent awareness of climate and biodiversity, sharing knowledge, research and performance as open source, and collaborating with engineers, connections and customers.
He pointed to Greta Thunberg's warning about the current situation and stated that everyone from 7 to 70 warned about this issue. She also illustrated the Chernobyl accident site that nature can renew itself. Referring to the ecological structures he made, Clegg explained his environmentally friendly methods in these structures
Ece Çakır's "How do you achieve this much development?" He expressed that he got caught by young architects working with engineers and that he was caught by his students. In Turkey, which (!) Open to innovation, which support and motivation always nice to see that the new graduates colleagues admired abroad of employers offering a high working environment.
He also stated that with their meeting beyond declarations, a lot of things about carbon emissions and global warming can be easily learned. He ended his words by saying that non-living material (buildings, park elements, etc.) is more than living material (people, animals, plants, etc.) and talks about recyclable structures.
