shift in thinking

Human, which is the most developed member of the creation tree, is known to be lived in this universe for approximately three hundred thousand years. “When we think about what would be the first difference they put from the very first day that they existed; we cannot see any technological instruments, functional designs nor other things. The first remaining are always about art. The drawings that are on the walls of the caves from thousands of years ago, are the proves of human brain being able to create abstract works out of physical reality.” 1 This is the basic feature between humans and animals. The reason for this is that brain’s frontal areas being more developed. And this indicates that we have the abilities to choose, chat, solve problems, delay pleasures of moments, which others do not have.

“Our brain is just like a web formed with nerve cells. New information combining with the old ones, callbacks of the saved information happen because of this web. These synaptic connections of the brain are more powerful the more they are used. If they are not, they die and disappear.” 2 Just like an unused house dissolving easily, the thing that human body leaves in the dark is bound to vanish.

“Our cortices, allows us to express the feelings which are controlled by the midbrain with different methods. Our talents which allows us to vitalise our feelings’ equivalents such as poetry, literature, painting, music, are exist because of coordination features of those developed circuits.” 1 In this context, art is shaping a concept. 3

Among all organisms, another feature we have different than others is to default. (forget, reset, destroy) When people look at an artwork that they find fascinating, their brain pass to “default mode network” and connects to all parts of the brain. 4 Sometimes brain can enter this mode while doing nothing. Activities on our brain find the opportunity to wander around the things a person has seen, read, or experienced. 5 It is rumoured that Descartes found the x, y, z coordinate system while he was lying in his bed, watching a mosquito fly around.

We turn to our ancestors rather than to understand the whole or question. Everything we saved, imagined in our minds are special to us, we live in a personal universe and we are responsible for it. We need to have shifts in thinking, in a society consists of people who takes care of themselves, severity nor injustice are discussed. Because everyone would be busy searching for themselves. A city where everyone cleans up their mass is a taintless city. We can only make the life liveable by being a part of a bigger orchestra with other organisms. For life, the purpose of art is to make others understand themselves according to Anderson. That is why artist are the antibodies of the society. 6 The more they are the more they can protect the society.

1 Canan, Sinan “ Beynimiz neden sanat üretir ?“ [n] Beyin Magazine 3 (2016): 45. 2 Foster-Deffenbaugh, L. A., (November, 1996). Brain Research and its Implications for Educational Practice, A Dissertation, Brigham Young University, Hawaii. 3 Ülgen; G., Turgut, O., Ergen, H., & Uğur, O. Y., (2002). Beyin Temelli Öğrenme, Nobel Yayıncılık, Ankara, (Translation: Caine, R.N.; Caine, G., Making Connections Teaching and the Human Brain). 4 Buckner, Randy L., Jessica R. Andrews‐Hanna, and Daniel L. Schacter. “The brain’s default network.” Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1124.1 (2008): 1-38. 5 Hinton, C., Miyamoto, K., & Della‐Chiesa, B. R. U. N. O. (2008). Brain research, learning and emotions: implications for education research, policy and practice 1. European Journal of education, 43 (1), 87-103. 6 Mercin, L. (2006). Müzeler ve toplum. Retrieved: June 9, 2019. References

cultural center

A cultural center which has the concept of, “From the depths of the history to the horizons of the art”, is designed to follow our country’s cultural wealth and scientific studies and to leave next generations with its brightest. Away from stability, dynamic and complicated spaces that students can earn identity of culture are formed.