The journey of Sulukule, a Romani settlement tucked away in the groves of the fortress of Istanbu... more The journey of Sulukule, a Romani settlement tucked away in the groves of the fortress of Istanbul, started from early beginnings when it was considered as a mahalle –neighborhood- in the Ottoman period. Over time it’s meanings as an urban space shifted and with the advent of Modernization in the 1950s, its community became marginalized. The economical development and the exponential growth of the city in 1950s Istanbul began to swallow up this shrinking neighborhood and thus began its economic, social and architectural demise. The metropolis engulfed both the region of Sulukule and its inhabitants geographically. The stigmatization and branding of the space and its people brought on by the media metaphorically pushed this area outside of its boundaries and excommunicated it as a heterotopia. Architecturally speaking, it was a space that did not fit any urban scheme or for that matter any urban living and could almost be considered as a nomadic space. It was in a Foucauldian sense “a counter arrangement” to the city that was kept, salvaged and subjected to very little change until its destruction via an urban rejuvenation project brought on by the government in 2003. After its physical destruction, this contested space assumed a different identity. Through vigorous photojournalism a new space was born: that which did not exist and that which was a definitive utopia: a utopia that was fabricated by the subconscious of the urban intellect. Sulukule was re-conceptualized and re-born as the ideal Romani community by the help of the media which caused its demise in the first instance.
Author(s): Okay, Ece Sayram | Advisor(s): Favro, Diane G | Abstract: Healing in Motion introduces... more Author(s): Okay, Ece Sayram | Advisor(s): Favro, Diane G | Abstract: Healing in Motion introduces the concept of locotherapy in order to examine the relationship between Roman temple healing and architecture in the second century CE. Healing through movement was a new phenomenon that emerged in the Roman period involving collective and individual, formal and informal, ritual and non-ritual kinetic actions specific to therapeutic practices. A close reading of the Asklepieion at Pergamon, a prominent Greco-Roman healing center in Asia Minor, reveals the potent connection between locotherapy and architectural design. The analyses draws upon engaging urban phenomenological theory, the extensive literature on Greco-Roman healing, the meticulous archaeological reports on Pergamon, and first-hand data gathered during site visits. Applying an interdisciplinary approach, Healing in Motion emphasizes the embodied, kinetic aspects at play in the design of ancient healing centers, which had bee...
The journey of Sulukule, a Romani settlement tucked away in the groves of the fortress of Istanbu... more The journey of Sulukule, a Romani settlement tucked away in the groves of the fortress of Istanbul, started from early beginnings when it was considered as a mahalle –neighborhood- in the Ottoman period. Over time it’s meanings as an urban space shifted and with the advent of Modernization in the 1950s, its community became marginalized. The economical development and the exponential growth of the city in 1950s Istanbul began to swallow up this shrinking neighborhood and thus began its economic, social and architectural demise. The metropolis engulfed both the region of Sulukule and its inhabitants geographically. The stigmatization and branding of the space and its people brought on by the media metaphorically pushed this area outside of its boundaries and excommunicated it as a heterotopia. Architecturally speaking, it was a space that did not fit any urban scheme or for that matter any urban living and could almost be considered as a nomadic space. It was in a Foucauldian sense “a counter arrangement” to the city that was kept, salvaged and subjected to very little change until its destruction via an urban rejuvenation project brought on by the government in 2003. After its physical destruction, this contested space assumed a different identity. Through vigorous photojournalism a new space was born: that which did not exist and that which was a definitive utopia: a utopia that was fabricated by the subconscious of the urban intellect. Sulukule was re-conceptualized and re-born as the ideal Romani community by the help of the media which caused its demise in the first instance.
Author(s): Okay, Ece Sayram | Advisor(s): Favro, Diane G | Abstract: Healing in Motion introduces... more Author(s): Okay, Ece Sayram | Advisor(s): Favro, Diane G | Abstract: Healing in Motion introduces the concept of locotherapy in order to examine the relationship between Roman temple healing and architecture in the second century CE. Healing through movement was a new phenomenon that emerged in the Roman period involving collective and individual, formal and informal, ritual and non-ritual kinetic actions specific to therapeutic practices. A close reading of the Asklepieion at Pergamon, a prominent Greco-Roman healing center in Asia Minor, reveals the potent connection between locotherapy and architectural design. The analyses draws upon engaging urban phenomenological theory, the extensive literature on Greco-Roman healing, the meticulous archaeological reports on Pergamon, and first-hand data gathered during site visits. Applying an interdisciplinary approach, Healing in Motion emphasizes the embodied, kinetic aspects at play in the design of ancient healing centers, which had bee...
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Architecturally speaking, it was a space that did not fit any urban scheme or for that matter any urban living and could almost be considered as a nomadic space. It was in a Foucauldian sense “a counter arrangement” to the city that was kept, salvaged and subjected to very little change until its destruction via an urban rejuvenation project brought on by the government in 2003.
After its physical destruction, this contested space assumed a different identity. Through vigorous photojournalism a new space was born: that which did not exist and that which was a definitive utopia: a utopia that was fabricated by the subconscious of the urban intellect. Sulukule was re-conceptualized and re-born as the ideal Romani community by the help of the media which caused its demise in the first instance.
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Architecturally speaking, it was a space that did not fit any urban scheme or for that matter any urban living and could almost be considered as a nomadic space. It was in a Foucauldian sense “a counter arrangement” to the city that was kept, salvaged and subjected to very little change until its destruction via an urban rejuvenation project brought on by the government in 2003.
After its physical destruction, this contested space assumed a different identity. Through vigorous photojournalism a new space was born: that which did not exist and that which was a definitive utopia: a utopia that was fabricated by the subconscious of the urban intellect. Sulukule was re-conceptualized and re-born as the ideal Romani community by the help of the media which caused its demise in the first instance.