Merve Karadaban was a guest in the Individual and Space Lesson

Interior Architecture and Environment Department Merve Karadaban presented her master's thesis on April 5, 2022 at the "Individual and Space Course" of Istanbul Commerce University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Architecture, led by Pınar Geçkili Karaman. In the Individual and Space Course, examining the interaction process between the individual and space with different aspects and within the framework of the discipline of environmental psychology, examining the user factor in the design processes of spaces of different scales and functions, and having general information and methods on the subjects of ensuring spatial quality that takes into account the user expectations of the students. is intended.
 
  Merve Karadaban, Assoc. Dr. She shared her feelings and thoughts on her presentation on her master's thesis titled "Looking at Istanbul as a Hollow City: A Study on the Uncertain Areas of the City", which she completed under the supervision of Fatma Erkök:
 
“In 2020, Assoc. In my presentation on my thesis, "Looking at Istanbul as a Hollow City: A Research on the Ambiguous Areas of the City", which I completed under the consultancy of Fatma Erkök, I tried to express the information I tried to gather about the deindustrialization process and my effort to understand the transformation of Istanbul in the light of this information. The hole city is actually defined as the manifestation of a contradiction, an inconsistent development of the capitalist city. On the one hand, while the rural areas on the urban periphery are included in the city, on the other hand, the unforeseen dissolution of the lands in the city; In fact, we are talking about the fact that it turns into a rural appearance most of the time. In this sense, the stance of the urban area as if it were rural, the approach of the rural area towards the urban, without becoming ambiguous, transforming into each other, but still not turning into a city or a countryside; We're talking about in-between. While doing this study, I can say that instead of looking at whether these cracks are positive or negative, I tried to understand "how do these cracks occur?" (IT SHOULD BE THAT WAY). I hope that the information about 'urban growth, urbanization, transition from industrialization to deindustrialization and the ambiguous area', which I tried to find the answer to in my thesis process and which I conveyed in the course, was interesting for the students."
 
We congratulate Merve Karadaban and wish her continued success.