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The 4th of IAPS-CS Network* Culture and Space Meeting Series is held under the title “Istanbul as an Endless Urban Articulation Place” by ÖZÜ-Faculty of Architecture and Design as a part of Özyeğin University’s 10th Anniversary Events. The 4th of the series takes place between September 2018 and February 2019, consisting of interrelated activities as design workshops, national student competition, article competition, symposium / colloquium / exhibition and an award ceremony. Keywords: Istanbul, palimpsest city, urban articulation, randomness, spontaneity, and articulatability 2
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The announcement of the Competition: September 25, 2018 Deadline of Q&A: October 29, 2018 The announcement of the Answers: November 5, 2018 Deadline for application for the Competition: December 7, 2018 Submission of the Works: December 28, 2018 Jury Meeting: January 5-6, 2019 The announcement of the Results: January 11, 2019 Exhibition: February 11-16, 2019 4th Culture and Space Meeting (Symposium, Colloquium, Exhibition, Award Ceremony): February 16, 2019
Jury Members • • • • • • •
Nevşet Gül Çanakçıoğlu, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design Boğaçhan Dündaralp, ddrlp Özgür Ediz, Uludağ University, Faculty of Architecture Tuna Han Koç, Rasa Stüdyo Mehmet Emin Şalgamcıoğlu, İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture Hülya Turgut, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design Alper Ünlü, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design
Competition Reporters • İrem Bayraktar, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design • Özge Özkuvancı, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design Contact: iapscultureandspacenetwork@gmail.com
Participants of the competition, which is to be held within the frame of the main theme “Istanbul as an Endless Place of Urban Articulation’’, are expected to question and interpret the rapidly changing and transforming multilayered and patterned structure of the palimpsest city of Istanbul, and to produce scenarios of re-articulated and manipulated ways of living. To reveal this kind of a scenario, it is necessary to read the ongoing transformation of dynamics of design, architecture, planning, place, and society, as well as to express the states in which this cycle, as a construction, destruction and reconstruction practice, starts to define not only a physical but also a social restructuring process. Thinking about the articulatable condition of the city requires considering both the triggering factors of the transformation, and the ones that emerge randomly even though they do not have a role in the cycle, and what the urban and social flow contains together. At this point, while design and architecture constantly intervene in the multilayered and multidimensional structure of the city, they also reveal a new language. Does each discourse create its own language or contain an analogy on the whole? When the place and the city are at the core of the mind, what kind of a language does archıtecture talk? How does the language of the designer transform? What does architecture tell the city, and how does it describe it? As a response to this investigation, how does the city dweller’s perception of the physical space get constructed, transformed or erased? In other words, how does the society read the city, and how does it depict the urban space and place? The intellectual production on the design and the language of the place also points to an entity of a social dimension about the language of the architecture and architectural discourse. The state of containing every analogy and conflict on the society, politics and the multidimensional layers of the place and its context enables the city to reach a multiple languages and images, rather than lacking in 4
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variety. The city looks like a giant organism which is always fluid, inconstant and transforming, with its various layers. Movements, turns and breaks of each layer, together with any intervention of any size it contains, and random or planned and focused or unfocused acts and facts keep the city in a perpetual articulation. Therefore, the main expectation of the competition is to bring up to discussion how the behaviors, habits, genders, culture, vision of aesthetics, daily life practices and life scenarios of the dwellers in İstanbul interact with the requirements of time as well as what it brings along itself, and how they transform the city and the city life. In this context, participants are expected to question Istanbul within the context of articulated and manipulated urban scenarios along with the notions of random/planned, spontaneity/compulsory, articulatable/rigid. They are expected to analyze the city that goes through dynamic transformation and its dwellers and to discuss and the changing urban ways of living according to the daily life practices, urban spaces that contain these ways of living and their translations in İstanbul. Depending on the scenario to be developed by the participants under the main theme ‘Istanbul as Endless Place of Urban Articulation’, the city can be considered with a holistic view but also it can be considered with a part of the city on a smaller scale. One of the main purposes of the competition is to create foresight about how the multidimensional and multilayered structure of the city as an organism exposed to various manipulations will form in future, under the influence of the dynamics that affect it continuously or non-continuously.
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Competition Type The competition is one stage, national student idea competition that undergraduate and graduate students from the Architecture, Design, and Fine Arts Faculties can apply.
Evaluation of the Competition The main aim of the competition is to focus on the new life scripts and scenarios articulated in İstanbul that evolves and gets incurred by sometimes spontaneously sometimes by forced interventions with all forms and methods from past to today. In this context, for participants, it’s important to produce ideas that embody the scenarios that they foresee and interpretations that look from a critical perspective. It should be emphasized importantly that the relationship between the interpretations and suggestions according to the conceptional content of the foreseen scenario and the scenario, should be clearly legible.
Participation Rules Design Workshop is open to undergraduate students individually or as a team from (Architecture and Design Faculty Departments Architecture, Interior Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design etc..) Each team created/suggested, can include members from departments like psychology, sociology, philosophy, cinema tv and photography departments of Fine Arts Faculties as a consultant). Students who are graduated in 2018 can also participate. Students from different departments are encouraged to create a team to participate in the competition. The online form in https://goo.gl/forms/ lpsMJByuBY9wFLn02 should be submitted until December 7, 2018. 6
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Participation Fee The participation fee is 100,00 TL. Competition specifications can be found on http://www.iapsculturespace.com, Arkitera.com, mimarizm.com, and yapi. com.tr. The participation fee will be paid to Alico Turizm(as the recipient) with account number(IBAN) Garanti Bankası TR23 0006 2000 7130 0006 2966 98. For the statement, IAPS-CS Etkinlikleri 4 -Yarışma katılım ücreti should be written and Name-Surname and ID Number should be stated completely. Participants should give the money transfer document (100TL for each project) (ATM voucher, online banking print etc.) to the submission coordinating team in person. For the projects sent by post can put the atm voucher or the banking print into the ID envelope.
The announcement of the Competition The competition will be announced in http://www.iaps-culturespace.com, www.arkitera.com, mimarizm.com and yapi.com.tr websites.
Award
There will be 5 equal awards worth 4.000,00 TL and if the jury finds appropriate a Jury Special Prize (2.000,00 TL X2) will be given to selected works.
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Submission Format and Required Documents There should be both a poster and a video for each project submission. Project Boards: Maximum 2 A1 size (59,4cm x 84,1cm.) with hard background (5mm photo block/foam board). These boards should be considered as vertical. Project Definition: Text part should explain the project content in 2 A4 sizes (21 cm x29,7cm) pages. (will be supported with diagrams, schemas) Short Video Film: The short movies can be in different genres: fiction, documentary, impersonation, experimental etc. The movies should not be longer than 3 minutes and should have 720p (each movie frame min. 1280x720 pixel) resolution. The movies should be coded with H.264 MP4 or in AVI format and uploaded on YouTube or Vimeo or with file sharing websites (WeTransfer, Dropbox, etc.) and the links should be sent to iapscultureandspacenetwork@gmail.com e-mail address. The movies uploaded on video sharing websites should be downloadable. All movies should have an opening frame with the title of “Istanbul as Endless Urban Articulation Place” and end with the owner’s nickname. The movies should not have another title different than the title above.
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Videos should be in Turkish or English. English subtitles for videos in Turkish and Turkish subtitles for videos in English should be embedded in the movie. The movies that will apply for the competition should be produced specially for the competition. The competitors are considered as admitting that their movie is original and belongs to themselves, and never been submitted to another competition after the application. There should be a submission form for each submission CD: A CD and an ID envelope which contains all video and posters in digital format (jpg, tiff and pdf formats of the posters, a word and pdf document of project definition copies) will be submitted in an A4 size envelope with competition id/ nickname. ID Envelope: ID envelope is a closed and nontransparent A4 format envelope, which belongs to the project for each board and includes a 5 numbered project nickname/ID. The information inside the envelope should include team member names, institution names they are enrolled, student certificate copy, address, e-mail and phone numbers.
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Event Contact Addresses IAPS https://iaps-association.org/ IAPS-CS Network https://www.iaps-culturespace.com/ https://www.facebook.com/Iapscultureandspacenetwork/ For detailed information about the event: iapscultureandspacenetwork@gmail.com sonsuz bir “kentsel artikülasyon” mekânı olarak istanbul
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Publications of Culture & Space Meetings * You can obtain more information about past events from the sources given below. • • • • • •
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Almaç, B., Gümrü, B., Günöz, Ö., Şen, İ., Şoher, Ş., Turgut,H. Bir “palimpsest” Kent Olarak İstanbul ve Kusurluluk:Bir Tasarım Atolyesi ve Öğrenci Yarışması”, s: 98-103, Arredamento, Eylül 2013, S:2013/09, Boyut Yayıncılık, İstanbul. Turgut, H. “Istanbul as a palimpsest city and imperfection ” A/Z Dergisi, Bahar-2013, Volume 10-sayı:1, ITU Journal of the Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul, http://www.az.itu.edu.tr/issue.htm Turgut, H., Cantürk, E. “Design Workshops as a tool for Informal Architectural Design Education ”, Open House International Journal., Vol.40, No: 2, 2015, pp:87-96 England. Turgut, H., Çelikcan, C. Bir “palimpsest” Kent Olarak İstanbul’da Gelecek Artık Eskisi Gibi Değil, s: 66-75, YAPI, Temmuz 2015, S:404, Yem Yayın, İstanbul. Turgut, H., Atıcı, M. İstanbul’u Düşlemek : Bir Ulusal Öğrenci Yarışması Deneyimi, Değerlendirmesi, s: 76-89, YAPI, Eylül 2015, S:406, Yem Yayın, İstanbul. Turgut, H., Akbalık, E. Dosya:”Bir Palimpsest Kent Olarak İstanbul’da Gelecek Artık Eskisi Gibi Değil,Yazarlar.Duygu Yarımbaş, Tuba Özkan, Emre Özdemir, Zeynep Tarçın Turgay Editör: Hülya Turgut, Esra Akbalık Mimarlık, OcakŞubat 2017, S:393,sayfa:40-57, Yapı- Endüstri merkezi, İstanbul.
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Advisory Committee
Tony Craig, IAPS, President Peter Kellett, Newcastle University, School of Architecture, GB, IAPS-CS Network Co-coordinator
Scientific Organization Committee
Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design, IAPS-CS network founding member Hülya Turgut, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design, IAPS-CS network coordinator Alper Ünlü, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design, IAPS-CS network founding member Nagehan Açımuz İşbakan, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Na-Md Mimarlık Nevşet Gül Çanakçıoğlu, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design Demet Mutman, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design
Graphic Design
Ümit Ceren Bayazitoğlu, IAAC, Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
Reporters
İrem Bayraktar, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design Hande Tunç, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design Özge Özkuvancı, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design Ezgi Çiçek, ÖZÜ, Faculty of Architecture and Design Pelin Günay, ÖZÜ, Mimarlık ve Tasarım Fakültesi
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main theme
The 4th IAPS-Culture & Space Network – Culture and Space Meeting invites young designers, thinkers who generate ideas on the city, academics, undergraduate and graduate students to analyze and interpret the multi-layered and patterned structure of the ‘Palimpsest’ city of Istanbul that continues to undergo rapid changes and transformations for the purpose of supporting formal architectural education by means of informal activities. Participants who are to join and experience this scientific research process in literary, interactive and experimental manners are expected to investigate the city of Istanbul in terms of its ‘articulatability’. As a “palimpsest” city, Istanbul, which is in a constant interaction with a complex system of interconnected networks, is being transferred to the future with additional new layers that metamorphose in each second and are articulated and reticulated with the old in an adjoining, superposed and intertwined way. Cities that shape themselves every day in different ways gather the traces of the past, the present, and the future. With its multi-layered structure, Istanbul is home to produce, discuss, consume and reconstruct several propositions from the past to the present day. Here, it becomes crucial to investigate the concepts of ‘palimpsest city’, ‘palimpsest identity’ and ‘palimpsest in architecture’. The concept of palimpsest allows multi-dimensional readings when used as a metaphor in this context for places and cities (Turgut, 2018) where it is possible to read the superposed traces of the past, present and the future. The investigation and discussion of the concept of ‘urban articulation’ in every aspect within the context of Istanbul form the focus of the 4th IAPS-CS Network, Culture & Space Meeting. At this point, the relationship between urban articulation and ‘randomness, spontaneity and articulatability’ is essential. 16
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Fahrelnissa Zeid, “My Hell” (1951), (Raad bin Zeid / Istanbul Museum of Modern Art)
In the urban context, articulatability denotes the capability of being gathered, articulated and transformed. The concept of articulation which is considered an analogy in urban research is derived from articular of French origin and it means “to connect one piece with another”, “the act of being articulated into something”, and “the connection/relationship between two parts” . This particular concept is usually borrowed in art and architecture in related to the relationship, position or disposition of the masses at various scales. Fahrelnissa Zeid’s “My Hell”, which demonstrates her mental reservoir and the articulation of the various figurative forms influenced by the Middle East and Europe, stands out to be one of the best examples for the concept of articulation.
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Although articulation conceptually means the perfect and harmonious formation and regulation of a chain by the articulation of the parts belonging to a whole or set, this relationship is debated on a ground consisting of many more conflicts when it is discussed in the context of urban studies. The existing physical, social, political, economic and environmental dynamics of a city, the actors who perform or stimulate the articulation, and the time factor brings about the possibility of adding a new piece to the city. Any possibility also bears the potential of a new separation, disorder, transformation, and conflict. When questioning how the intervention is to have an impact on the city and how it is to form a relationship with the existing situation, it should be kept in mind that the city is not only a physical built environment but also a living entity of social and cultural value. Any direct, indirect, voluntary and involuntary interventions render Istanbul a field of study for the concept of “urban” articulation. Scrutinized within the framework of an urban reality, all parts of Istanbul which are sometimes intertwined, articulated or separated, and its natural tendency of allowing new combinations and formations makes the city the focus of an endless design practice. As a kind of multiplicity environment, the city is multiplied and articulated in an endless spiral loop. A city with such multi-layered and multidimensional structure also becomes an important field of study for the acquisition of collective urban and spatial experiences and productions. At this point, while the theme examines the new lifestyles and the transforming mental processes which the urban-related situations that suddenly and coincidently or deliberately and systematically emerge, consume and produce within the process, it brings ‘the endlessly articulable state of Istanbul’ up for discussion through different concepts. In this regard, it is important to examine Istanbul as a harmonious or incompatible combination of large and small pieces, just like Fahrelnissa Zeid’s masterpiece. 18
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The following concepts are to guide the activities at the 4th IAPS Culture & Space Network Meeting where the close relationship between Istanbul’s multi-layered and multidimensional state as an endless example of urban articulation and “design”.
Rules of Participation Graduated young researchers and students (undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate) of Departments of Architecture and Design Faculties (Architecture, Interior Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Landscape Architecture, Industrial Design, Communication Design, Graphic Design etc.) can participate to the events individually or as a team. Created/suggested teams can be formed by affiliating partners or consultants from fields such as psychology, sociology, and so on. istanbul as an endless “urban articulation” place
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