Istanbul’s Lost Leisure Spaces as
Collective Memory Superstructures:
(Re-)learning from Mesires and Plajs
To Overcome The Social Polarization
Kıvılcım Göksu Toprak | MA Architecture and Historic Urban Environments
A STUDY OF
ISTANBUL’S LOST LEISURE SPACES
FOR OVERCOMING THE SOCIAL POLARIZATION
THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON TWO LEISURE TYPOLOGIES THAT HAD EXISTED IN ISTANBUL’S PAST:
PLAJ LAR AND MESİRELER (BEACHES AND MEADOWS).
IT EXPLORES THE ELEMENTS AND INTERACTIONS CREATING THESE PLACES AND PROBES THE WAYS INDIVIDUAL STORIES ESTABLISH A CUMULATIVE CULTURE.
THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT, THE CONCEPTS OF MEMORY, HISTORY, AND IDENTITY ARE CHALLENGED VIA ARCHIVAL STUDIES OF OPEN ACCESS SOURCES AND VISUAL/TACTILE REINTERPRETATIONS OF SPACE-TIME.
THE AIM IS TO DISCOVER HOW ARBITRARY ENCOUNTERS, SPATIAL APPROPRIATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS, THAT HAPPEN DURING LEISURE ACTIVITIES’ TEMPORARY OCCUPATIONS, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CONSTRUCTING INCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE MEMORIES, IDENTITIES, AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES.
BY ADOPTING A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, THIS RESEARCH QUESTIONS THE PLACE’S EVER-CHANGING MEANING AND IT INTRODUCES A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF LEISURE CULTURE THAT CAN BECOME A TOOL FOR OVERCOMING THE DEHUMANIZATION AND CREATING INCLUSIVE FUTURES.
ISTANBUL’S LOST LEISURE SPACES
FOR OVERCOMING THE SOCIAL POLARIZATION
THIS RESEARCH FOCUSES ON TWO LEISURE TYPOLOGIES THAT HAD EXISTED IN ISTANBUL’S PAST:
PLAJ LAR AND MESİRELER (BEACHES AND MEADOWS).
IT EXPLORES THE ELEMENTS AND INTERACTIONS CREATING THESE PLACES AND PROBES THE WAYS INDIVIDUAL STORIES ESTABLISH A CUMULATIVE CULTURE.
THROUGHOUT THE PROJECT, THE CONCEPTS OF MEMORY, HISTORY, AND IDENTITY ARE CHALLENGED VIA ARCHIVAL STUDIES OF OPEN ACCESS SOURCES AND VISUAL/TACTILE REINTERPRETATIONS OF SPACE-TIME.
THE AIM IS TO DISCOVER HOW ARBITRARY ENCOUNTERS, SPATIAL APPROPRIATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS, THAT HAPPEN DURING LEISURE ACTIVITIES’ TEMPORARY OCCUPATIONS, CAN CONTRIBUTE TO CONSTRUCTING INCLUSIVE COLLECTIVE MEMORIES, IDENTITIES, AND SUSTAINABLE FUTURES.
BY ADOPTING A PHENOMENOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, THIS RESEARCH QUESTIONS THE PLACE’S EVER-CHANGING MEANING AND IT INTRODUCES A NEW UNDERSTANDING OF LEISURE CULTURE THAT CAN BECOME A TOOL FOR OVERCOMING THE DEHUMANIZATION AND CREATING INCLUSIVE FUTURES.
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