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Novel Approaches to Urban Design and Architecture Education: Design Studio Practice and Pedagogy, 2024

This study deals with the pedagogy of architectural design studios. By analyzing atelierz as a ca... more This study deals with the pedagogy of architectural design studios. By analyzing atelierz as a case study, it builds a discussion on situating the architectural design studio off-center, implementing experimental pedagogy, and producing excessively undisciplined work. Dealing with such a subject is crucial in exploring and discussing how architectural knowledge and skills, which cannot be fully accommodated within the scope of architectural education, are made accessible, used, and produced in the studio. The first part of the study, divided into three parts, explains what is off-center in architecture. The second part discusses the need to adopt an experimental pedagogic approach to situate the studio off-center and explains the experimental fiction of atelierz. The third part exemplifies the fictions and works of atelierz, discussing the excessively undisciplined nature of the knowledge and skills they lead to. Considering the conceptualizations, pedagogic fiction descriptions, and experiences presented, the opportunities and risks of situating the studio off-center are discussed.

Architecture Anthology I: Education, Research, and Practice, 2015

Emerging as a recognizable field of study in the second half of the 20th century, Design Research... more Emerging as a recognizable field of study in the second half of the
20th century, Design Research shapes up in the framework of designbased research practice. The studies carried out in this field base on
the understanding and improvement of design processes. A design
process carried out by an experimental approach, intrinsic to
experimentality, promotes a critical look upon the entire design
process and constitutes an effective inquiry in context of design
research. By means of experimentality, it is possible to deal with
many constituents of the design process from design methods to
design results and to modes of representation. In this consideration,
taking Urban Archiscapes Studio which is an experimental design
studio opened in context of WS-RADS Intensive Program, as a case
study, this paper shares alternative designerly ways of thinking and
communicating upon the processes of shaping and making of places
under the theme “Urban Housing: Visions of the Future”.
Accordingly the design process of the Urban Archiscapes Studio is
illustrated under the titles of Studio Environment and Profile, Studio
Theme, Design Products and Prensentations of the Studio, Design
Approaches and Practices of the Studio. Thus, how the process of a
design studio constructed through an experimental approach
promotes design research is represented and how each of the design
products constitute a distinct inquiry is discussed from a
pedagogical perspective.

Mimarlık Okullarında Tasarım Stüdyoları: Farklı Denemeler, 2019

Gazi Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Mimar lık Bölümü'ndeki düşey tasarım stüdyola rından biri ol... more Gazi Üniversitesi Mimarlık Fakültesi Mimar lık Bölümü'ndeki düşey tasarım stüdyola rından biri olan atölyeZ, mimarlığın ve mi- - -
marın varoluşunu çeşitlenen tematik çerçeveler
içinde sorgulamak üzere tasarımı araç olarak
kullanan, eğitimde deneysel yaklaşımı benimseyen bir stüdyodur. Değişen tasarım ve üretim
ortamı bağlamında, sürekli bir döngü içinde ger-
çekleşen “Mimarlığın İcadı”nı ve bu bağlamda
“Mimarın İnşası”nı problem olarak alır. Bu doğ-
rultuda atölyeZ "Mimar Figürü"nün oluşumunu
tetikleyen unsurları, oluşum süreçlerini ve olu-
şumda etkin olan dinamikleri açıklamaya çabalar. Mimarın bireysel yolculuğu içinde şekillendireceği, tekrar tekrar tanımlayacağı bir oluşun
anlatısını kurmaya çalışır. “Eğitimsel Gelenekler”in ve “Öğrenilmiş Pratikler”in ötesinde yeni
alanlara açılmak ve mimarlık için farklı etkinlik
alanları keşfetmek üzere çağrı yapar.

Materiart: Architectural Design, Research and Technology, 2022

Some discussions on architectural knowledge question whether architecture is a discipline or not ... more Some discussions on architectural knowledge question whether architecture is a discipline or not and what its frontiers are. Accordingly how architectural knowledge is produced and what constitutes its basis are handled with regard to architecture's theory and practice and its relations with other disciplines. In this context, design is one of the significant subjects of discussion in respect of the production of architectural knowledge, as it allows both the theoretical and practical fields of architecture to be engaged and complex relations to be built with different disciplines. In this perspective, this paper proposes rethinking on architectural design knowledge. It addresses "knowledge in designing" as a conceptualization to define a specialized field of discussion regarding the complex structure of knowledge formed within the activity of designing. Concerning this conceptualization, the interrelations between the formation and communication of knowledge in the activity of designing is examined. To hold such an examination in terms of the unpredictable, intricated relationships between thinking and doing, a perspective is opened in the framework of the experimentality of designing. With this regard, the content created by Gilles Deleuze regarding experimentalism in context of his philosophy of creation is used to create an understanding of the structural characteristics and transmission potential of the" knowledge in designing". In the light of this understanding, going beyond the epistemological or the doxological frameworks of knowledge, the validity of the "knowledge in designing" is discussed based on basis of its own dynamics of genesis.

Papers by irem küçük

Tasarım & Kuram, 2024

This study explores the spatial production of the grotesque body in urban space, questioning its ... more This study explores the spatial production of the grotesque body in urban space, questioning its temporary, provocative and unusual being. It analyzes how it intervenes in space by challenging everyday routines and social forms, making other ways of life visible, triggering change and opening space for creative formations. It constructs interpretative research by evaluating the potential for spatial experimentation offered by the presence and creative agency of the grotesque body in urban space. It offers a new perspective to the existing literature by emphasizing that the grotesque body should be considered as an experimental spatial production tool.

Considering the psychological, social, and cultural expansions and the imaginative power of a literary narrative for reconsidering space, the novel "The Box Man" is used as a case study to explore the interventions of the grotesque body in urban space. Through the analysis of the literary narrative, the research constructs an open conceptual framework in which the interventions of a grotesque body are analyzed regarding its characteristics and the spatial experimentation it carries out, supported by excerpts from the novel. The framework aids in understanding, discussing, and reimagining the grotesque body as an experimental spatial production tool. Ultimately, this study lays the groundwork for further research into the role of the grotesque body in the production of urban space, revealing its potential to challenge conventional spatial production practices and to inspire creative, unique ways of reproducing urban space.

Periodica Polytechnica Architecture, 2023

In line with the changing definitions and boundaries of architecture and the changing roles and p... more In line with the changing definitions and boundaries of architecture and the changing roles and professional description of the architect, the need to question and explore the contexts, contents, methods, techniques and tools of architectural design education is always on the agenda. The pedagogical fiction of the architectural studio is treated as a noteworthy issue that is effective in educating architects and shaping architecture. It is a matter of discussion about what the training in the studio should cover and how the content should be processed. This study, developed with an experimental approach to design, questions the architectural design studio's fiction of content and method to rethink its pedagogical coverage and processing. To materialize the discussion on the studio pedagogy, "house" as a design content and "designing in becoming" as a design method are proposed. "House" is re-conceptualized as a basic spatial structure for designing ...

Dosya-49 - Mimari Tasarım Stüdyolarında Ankara'nın Geleceğini Kavramak, 2021

Architectural design education establishes a comprehensive content framework shaped by studio ſic... more Architectural design education establishes a comprehensive content framework shaped by studio ſictions, themes and contexts that vary depending on the educational approaches adopted by design studios. Discussing architectural design education within the scope of the theme of "Ankara, Education and the Future", this study is about the studio works of "Rebel Architecture/Rebellious Architect" which is the ſirst of the series of studios that atelierz conducts with the main theme of "Figure of the Architect" and determines the city of Ankara as a problem ſield. On the one hand, it shares the ſictional and thematic content developed by the studio,on the other hand,it conveys atelierz’s knowledge and experience on the city of Ankara.The way the study deals with the subject creates content in the context of both the educational ſictionalizing of the architectural design studio and the urban/spatial design potentials of Ankara.

IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2019

The article problematizes the concept of Contemporaneity to open up a discussion on architectural... more The article problematizes the concept of Contemporaneity to open up a discussion on architectural creation through design. It asserts that to interpret and to problematize the changing dynamics of architectural creation in actual conditions, the Contemporaneity opens a new field of comprehension. Accordingly, the article endeavours to conceptualize the concept of Contemporaneity in terms of its temporal, spatial and informational qualities in context of architecture with reference to the related discussions in philosophy and art. Far from fitting Contemporaneity into a particular definition, the article uncovers the possibilities that the Contemporaneity provides to experiment with architecture through design thanks to its experimental nature. It interprets the Contemporaneity as contextual being that provides a running room for experimenting architecture. In this perspective, it proposes to reposition architectural creation in a running room opening to Contemporaneity. Accordingly, the realization of architectural creation in the design space spread over such a running room is brought forward and the spatio-temporal informational configuration of design space as a basic architectural creation field is opened to discussion.

IOP Conf. Series: Materials Science and Engineering, 2017

Along with the technological improvements in our age, it is now possible for the movement to bec... more Along with the technological improvements in our age, it is now possible for the
movement to become one of the basic components of the architectural space. Accordingly,
architectural construction of movement changes both our architectural production practices and
our understanding of architectural space. However, existing design concepts and approaches are
insufficient to discuss and understand this change. In this respect, this study aims to form a
conceptual framework on the relationship of architecture and movement. In this sense, the
conceptualization of move-tecture is developed to research on the architectural construction of
movement and the potentials of spatial creation through architecturally constructed movement.
Move-tecture, is a conceptualization that treats movement as a basic component of spatial
creation. It presents the framework of a qualitative categorization on the design of moving
architectural structures. However, this categorization is a flexible one that can evolve in the
direction of the expanding possibilities of the architectural design and the changing living
conditions. With this understanding, six categories have been defined within the context of the
article: Topological Organization, Choreographic Formation, Kinetic Structuring, Corporeal
Constitution, Technological Configuration and Interactional Patterning. In line with these
categories, a multifaceted perspective on the moving architectural structures is promoted. It is
aimed that such an understanding constitutes a new initiative in the design practices carried out
in this area and provides a conceptual basis for the discussions to be developed.

Conference Presentations by irem küçük

S ARCH 2023, 2023

The content of abstracts published in this Book of Abstracts is the responsibility of the authors... more The content of abstracts published in this Book of Abstracts is the responsibility of the authors concerned. Authors are responsible for reproduction of material published elsewhere (illustrations, tables, data) having written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce material in the submitted manuscript. Authors are responsible for paying any fees to reproduce material. The organiser of the conference and the publisher of this Book of Abstracts are not responsible for published facts and technical accuracy of the presented material. The organiser and the publisher would like to apologise for any possible errors caused by material processing. Copyright This Book of Abstracts and all published abstracts, including all illustrations contained are protected by copyright. Upon an abstract being accepted for publication, all rights of publication, for translation, further reproduction, distribution, transmission, display, broadcast, of storage in any electronic form and producing photocopies are transferred to the publisher. Without the written permission of the publisher, any usage outside the limits of the copyright act is forbidden.

Environment and Design 2014 International Congress proceedings, 2014

In this study, the Museum of Innocence, fictionalized in parallel to Orhan Pamuk’s novel of the s... more In this study, the Museum of Innocence, fictionalized in parallel to Orhan Pamuk’s novel of the same name, is examined on the basis of its adaptive reuse fiction. By reason of the fact that it is built both in architectural and literal fields collaterally, the Museum of Innocence has an unusual transformation story created within the intersection of fact and fiction. On that sense promoting an alternative way to reuse a historical house, it is a unique example to discuss the transformation and evolution of residential environment and its sustainability within the urban context.
Through the study, the transformation process of the Brukner Apartment and the dynamics of this transformation are discussed. Focusing on the method of the transformation and the content of the new usage, creation of the adaptive reuse fiction in an interdisciplinary dialog and configuration of the content of the fiction to be based on everyday life practices are highlighted.

"Mimari Tasarım Eğitimi: Bütünleşme 2" 2. Ulusal Sempozyumu, 2011

Inclusiveness in Design - Design Communication Association European Conference (DCAE) 2016, 2016

ICONARCH II - Innovative Approaches in Architecture and Planning, 2014

The concept of “Kinetic Architecture” provides an extensive framework for the broad-array of inqu... more The concept of “Kinetic Architecture” provides an extensive framework for the broad-array of inquiries upon the relationship between movement, human and space. Focusing on the dynamic configuration of physical space via movement in Kinetic Architecture, in this paper it is asserted that in order to understand kinetic spatial embodiments, a new aesthetic conception that goes beyond our conception of static spatial embodiments is needed. Using the conceptual frameworks; Eco’s poetics of the “Work in Movement” in context of his theory of “The Open Work”, Dewey’s theory of “Art as Experience” and Heidegger’s conceptions of “poetry as building” and “poetical measuring” as an explanatory tool, it intends to conceptualize aesthetics of the space in movement. As considering the movement as existential manifestation, poetical building of space in movement is opened to discussion as an alternative way of production of space in relation to aesthetics.