Res. Asst. Merve Karadaban's book chapter titled “About Other Spaces: Reflections on Foucault's Concepts of 'Heterotopia' and Soja's 'Third Space'”, discussion texts on the "Architecture Project 6" course of Istanbul Commerce University, Department of Architecture, and the project It was published in the book titled "Neighborhood, Memory, Transformation: Fikirtepe". In the book, which brings together different academicians from the architecture and interior architecture departments of various universities in Turkey, Res. Asst. Merve Karadaban discusses the concepts of third space and heterotopia, which she discussed in the conceptual framework of her master's thesis titled, “Looking at Istanbul as a Perforated City: A Research on the Ambiguous Areas of the City", by reconsidering the urban transformation project realized in Fikirtepe.
In the book published by Istanbul Commerce University Publications and edited by Master Architect Ayşe Okudan Mutlu and Lecturer Pınar Geçkili Karaman; There are texts in which Fikirtepe urban transformation process is discussed through concepts such as neighborhood, commons, collective memory, public space, other space, heterotopia and transformation. The book also includes selections from the projects created by the students of Istanbul Commerce University, Department of Architecture, in the "Architecture Project 6" course, by examining the slum texture and intermediate spaces that exist in Fikirtepe Urban Transformation Area.
From the book chapter summary:
“The move to try to develop a perspective on urban transformation is also a form of re-questioning the social duties of architecture and urbanism. The tasks to be enacted vary depending on which parts of the society it focuses on. However, the biggest problem in urban transformation projects is that the process is based on the commodification and marketing of urban land, although the legitimacy ground is imposed on discourses produced on the basis of the living of 'disadvantaged social parts' in more sanitary conditions (Kurtuluş, 2012). Every intervention made in this context cannot get out of the limits of the 'market focus' and compresses architecture and urbanism, which makes the intervention applicable, into the 'medium of the market' position. Kurtulus (2012) mentions that since the 1980s, spatial transformation has been built through neoliberal policies, through 'the reorganization of the right ownership of classes in urban areas in favor of the rising classes' and 'capital accumulation through the complete commodification of the urban area'. This situation makes it difficult to provide 'social justice' (Kurtuluş, 2012). In this sense, it is important to try to think again from a more radical perspective in the critical perspective on space.”
We congratulate Res. Asst. Merve Karadaban and wish her continued success.
