Merve Karadaban was the guest of the Space and People Program!

Merve Karadaban, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Istanbul Gelişim University, was the guest of the Space and People Program broadcast on Medyascope TV and presented by Melis Oğuz. Research Assistant Merve Karadaban, Assoc. Dr. Dr. Fatma Erkök completed her master's thesis titled "Looking at Istanbul as a Perforated City: A Research on the ambiguous areas of the city". He had a conversation with Melis Oğuz.
 
Dr. Melis Oğuz first asked Merve Karaban to open the conceptual framework that she included in her work, and then she mentioned that they talked a lot about this and similar issues in the Space and People Program, but there was no discussion on the concepts of holed city and ambiguous space. The continuation of the program is Dr. It continued with the answers given to Melis Oğuz's question below and the discussion on the concept of the holed city.
 
“With the pace of industrialization and the increase in the level of economic welfare, cities are growing and the industrial areas on the periphery of the city are slowly starting to stay within the city. We are watching the transformation of such structures. But you say in this study that the holes in the city are the cracks that appear during this growth. When you say hole city, are you talking about the negativities of this process? What does it mean for the city to have holes? Can you explain why you regard Istanbul as a holed city?”
 
Merve Karadaban answered the above question as follows:
 
“The hole city is actually defined as a 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 these cracks are formed.
 
Merve Karadaban shared her feelings and thoughts about the program as follows:
 
“I am very happy to be a part of the 'Place and People' program, which is published weekly on Medyascope, where researchers talk about current studies and projects about the city. In 2020, Assoc. In our conversation about my thesis, "Looking at Istanbul as a city with holes: 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 collect about the deindustrialization process and my effort to understand the transformation of Istanbul in the light of this information. I hope the questions 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 program, were interesting for the audience."
 
  We congratulate Merve Karadaban and wish her continued success.