Research Assistant Merve Karadaban was the Guest of the Project Jury!

Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU), Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department Research Assistant Merve Karadaban attended the Interior Architecture Department "Interior Architecture Design Studio I" course of a foundation university as a jury member. Architect Hazel Çetin, Didem Büyükkoçak, and Research Assistant Merve Karadaban made the project evaluations in the final jury of the Interior Architecture Design Studio course conducted by Instructor İlke Şahin, in which the current relations of Haldun Taner Stage with Rıhtım and Kadıköy Çarşı were questioned, and performance and accommodation projects were produced for Kadıköy Haldun Taner Stage.

“The project aims to organize a part of the student's choice in Kadıköy Haldun Taner Stage as an artist's performance and accommodation area. On the other hand, the current relations of Haldun Taner Stage with Rıhtım and Kadıköy Çarşı were thought, also the potential that the space could gain with the newly added piece was examined as well. While some students created the surfaces of the space where the performance will be produced, they also transformed them into the surfaces of the accommodation function, while some students turned the effects of environmental factors (wind, rain, etc.) on the space into a performance (thanks to moving systems). In this sense, we have come across projects that it is clear that the integrity of the produced space has been given a lot of thought. The most important recommendations given by the jury to the students in the projects were that the space and the circulations in that spatial volume was were considered together. How the spaces are produced will cause a change in Haldun Taner Stage and will transform this structure. Secondly, the impact Haldun Taner Stage and how its unity with the newly produced space on the urban scale should be examined also. The discussions on the projects of the students who tried to re-read the relations between art, performance, and space were very productive.”

We congratulate Research Assistant Merve Karadaban and wish her continued success.