Author
Yorgancıoğlu, Derya, Çalak, I.
Publication Date
2020
Publication Place
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Yildiz Technical University Faculty Of Architecture
Subject
Bodily experience, experiential mapping, Design education, Phenomenology, Earth knowledge, Bodily experience, experiential mapping, Design education, Phenomenology, Spatial knowledge
Type
Periodical
Language
Turkish
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID
1309-6915
Record ID
21d56a55-7d4e-4bb0-913a-11c2e08a46f1
Library Location
Architecture
Date
2020
Sample Text
This article includes the conceptual framework and findings of the workshop titled "Re-Mapping the Visibles and Invisibles of Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat". The workshop primarily aimed to ensure that architectural education goes beyond the school space and touches real life, to increase students' interactions with place, city and body, and to gain a unique perspective and perception of the concept of space. The conceptual framework of the workshop focuses on the role of bodily experience in defining the phenomenon of place and the space experienced by the body in the context of visible and invisible components of cities. A route consisting of Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat districts in Istanbul was chosen as the study area due to its architectural, historical and cultural multilayeredness. By placing the act of bodily-sensory perception at the center of space experience, it is aimed to reveal the layers of information about the visible and non-visible elements of the urban space. The specificity of the context coincided with the methodological approach of the workshop. The workshop covered the stages of experiencing the place in the daily life cycle, recording the experience information, breaking down and reinterpreting the recorded information, and creating 2- and 3-dimensional experience maps. Experience map has been adopted from a phenomenological perspective as an approach that involves the construction and representation of place and space information by body-subjects experiencing the place. Accordingly, the personal knowledge acquired and recorded by body-subjects individually later turned into design knowledge produced through group work. This design knowledge has found expression in experiential maps created with a pattern in which urban layers overlap and/or intertwine., This paper discusses the integrated study of the workshop entitled “Re-Mapping the Visible and Invisible of Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat” and the conceptual theory behind it. Encouraging students to look beyond the boundaries of studio environment and explore the described features of urban space have been a crucial part of this workshop. The conceptual framework of the workshop is based on the role of bodily experiences in defining the phenomenon of space in the context of visible and invisible features of the city. Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat districts in Istanbul is selected as a route to present architectural, historical and cultural; multi-layered nature of the field. Considering the bodily-sensory perception at the center of spatial experiences, the aim was to uncover layers of those sensory experience related to urban space. The authenticity of the methodological approach is to address the stages of urban space experience, to record the knowledge gained through this experience, and to express it through two-dimensional posters and three-dimensional models. Within phenomenological perspective, experiential mapping is adopted as an approach of structuring and representing spatial knowledge by body-subjects who themselves experience the place. Spatial knowledge acquired and represented by body-subjects is then transformed into design knowledge generated by/through group-works. Ultimately, this design knowledge has been made visible as a solid material such as maps and posters enabling us to read the patterns of overlapping and intersecting layers of urban spaces.
Cilt
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