Ayşe Nur Erek

Erek, Ayşe Nur

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Doç. Dr.

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ayse.erek@khas.edu.tr

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0000-0002-6293-5106

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57202920481

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Citation Count: 1
Heritage Requires Citizens’ Knowledge: The COST Place-Making Action and Responsible Research
(Springer Science and Business Media B.V., 2022) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Erek, A.; Hein, C.; Horan, C.; Krasznahorkai, K.; Lange, I.S.G.; Manahasa, E.
This chapter reflects on responsible science with an eye toward concrete research practice. To this end, we briefly introduce the RRI paradigm (Responsible Research and Innovation) and then highlight seven EU research projects in the context of a transnational COST Action project. This COST Action will investigate how placemaking activities, like public art, civil urban design, and local knowledge production, reshape and reinvent public space, and improve citizens’ involvement in urban planning and urban design, especially in the context of heritage sites. The chapter introduces heritage case studies that either contrast, differentiate, and add to existing knowledge and practices in placemaking through specific initiatives, or enable the establishment of common ground within a wider constellation of societal actors and both, as we see, contribute in different ways to responsible research. We analyze how the four criteria of RRI, namely anticipation, reflexivity, inclusion, and responsiveness are considered and implemented, and the extent to which digital tools are supportive. Obviously, coproduction of knowledge is not sufficient when we call for responsible science in the narrow sense, hence the development of common ground also appears necessary. © 2022, The Author(s).
Traces of informal placemaking the case of Caferağa neighborhood in İstanbul
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Erek, Ayşe Nur
Today, placemaking practice consists of deliberate and mostly planned activities and projects in urban spaces. Yet, the differentiation and appropriation of a space is simply the process of creating places. Placemaking then, may appear as a casual and unplanned occurrence resulting from human interactions and interventions in the fabric of urban space. It is the informal placemaking that is rooted in unplanned and daily human activities and spontaneous interactions in a space. Hence, informal placemaking resides outside of the realm of planned placemaking practices that involves stakeholders, communities, authorities, and professionals. Informal placemaking enhances from the interactions of ordinary people in everyday life with a subtle characteristic that makes it harder to observe than standard placemaking activities. On the other hand, human interactions leave traces behind in the material texture of a place which can be observed as the indicators of informal placemaking activities. From this perspective, this graduate dissertation aims to explore the acts and objects of informal placemaking by investigating human traces in Caferağa neighborhood of Kadıköy in Istanbul. Through these traces, it is also anticipated to have an understanding on how informal placemaking emerges in the everyday life practices of people in Caferağa. For these purposes, two different walking routes were selected, and an observational walking methodology which was supported by spontaneous unplanned interviews in the neighborhood was adopted in order to gather data through field research. The data collection is interpreted under four categorizations as the acts of informal placemaking: waiting, socializing, sheltering, and self-expression. Lastly, temporospatial dimension of the informal placemaking activities in Caferağa is explored through visualizations and mappings.
Citation Count: 1
Rewriting history: Interpreting heritage in saint petersburg and istanbul
(Taylor and Francis, 2019) Erek, Ayşe Nur
Our chapter analyses the paradoxes of reconstructing and reinterpreting architectural heritage, with a focus on the phenomenon of disappearing history. We argue: In the process of multiplication of actors involved in the reconstruction and reinterpretation of heritage sites, history and historical facts are playing a dwindling role. Using two case studies—Degtyarnyy Lane, a former tram station and park in Saint Petersburg, and the Emek Cinema building and Roma Garden in Istanbul, both of which are signifiers of the overall changes in Istanbul’s central Beyoğlu district after the 2000s—this chapter investigates how the multiplication of actors affects, on the one hand, the production of new histories of the highlighted heritage sites, and how this process leads to the disappearance of history in these cities; and on the other hand, how ‘rewriting’ the histories of these sites through heritage production affects the growing securitization around these sites and thereby access to them. Which social groups are included and which are excluded from these newly recreated places and sites and their ‘historical’ narratives? The analysis takes into account the strong spatio-temporal interplay in urban heritage sites.
Culture, commodity and spectator under the influence of global industry: The case of Karaköy
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Erdem, Arzu; Erek, Ayşe Nur
The final step industry has evolved into today also provides an excessive method of exhibiting. The transformation of the terminology branched under culture is redefined when the commodities are considered. Until the point of industrialization human history had been replacing forms of cultural production with a newer one. This continued from generation to generation until the mass production was introduced. Starting from the 18th century historic memory has started to fade under the guise of modernization. Capitalism’s dominancy in every field of life initiated new ways of thinking forming the field sociology and reshaping the outcomes of art, design and marketing. Brands began a competition of marketing and gaining global growth leading to a commodification of culture and meanwhile media played a big role. Mediatization of commodity brought upon globalism and the social media had a huge impact on all of this. At the end physical space as we know it defined by concrete boundaries transformed into a mental, limitless space paradoxically minimizing the inner worlds of the individual and emptying the qualitative aspects of the end-products. Especially emerging markets felt the biggest impact from the waves of globalism. To exemplify this data, a case area in Karaköy is selected. Karaköy with a rich cultural diversity and historical stratum consists an appropriate sample for two reasons. First reason is that it’s historical and cultural background gives us a strong data for comparison and the second reason is that the region has been going through an expansive transilience under capitalist agenda. This study lays down a documentation for the current state of Karaköy approaching a new decade and tries to convey a phase of transformation screenshot from a timeline of a rapidly changing appearance while investigating the social media’s effects and influence.
Building a counter-image: Critical approaches to aerial view
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2022) Şenol, Gülsen; Erek, Ayşe Nur; Ayşe Nur Erek
Throughout history, seeing and perceiving the environment has been one of the most outstanding efforts of humanity. Looking from above, as a privileged way of seeing, has turned into a boundary-drawing action for political organizations, surveillance studies, and urban planning with the advent of photography and aviation technologies. When the multi-layered relationship of seeing and knowing is handled through the city and space, it also paves the way for a problematic form of representation in which seeing, showing, and hiding are intertwined. In the 20th century, aerial photography moved away from the human body and suggested a way of seeing from above, resulting in the operationalization of urban space. As the gaze itself becomes an apparatus of control, following the invisible and ambiguous part of these operational images reveals the knowledge production machine with counter-imagination possibilities. This study, which seeks fractures in those images with examples from various political, architectural, and artistic practices, tries to redefine the image and the urban space it sees as an intervention area. Tracing the fractures in the disembodied, commanding, and abstracted intentions of looking from above, in these fractures, the spatial and temporal potentials built by artistic subjectivity are questioned. Hiding and tracing, as a ‘counter-action,’ at the asymmetrical threshold between visibility and invisibility, it can pave the way for enduring, resisting, or coexisting with/through the violent relationship between aerial vision technologies and everyday life on the ground.
Citation Count: 3
Disappearing history: Challenges of imagining Berlin after 1989
(Berghahn Books, 2017) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Gantner, Eszter Brigitta
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Pürüzsüz toplumu tuşlayarak yaratmak
(2023) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Erek, Ayşe Nur; Kaptan, Merve
Bu çalışmanın konusu olan text2image jeneratörü Midjourney, Midjourney ekibi için insan altyapısı ile tasarımın kesiştiği noktada yeni düşünce ortamları geliştirmek ve insan türünün hayal gücünü genişletmek için bir araştırma laboratuvarı olarak hizmet ediyor. Öte yandan Midjourney, ortalama bir kullanıcının kültürel verileri günlük dilden kelimelerle manipüle etmesine olanak tanıyan üretken bir görüntü üretim yazılımı olması nedeniyle günlük yaşamda bir araç olarak önem kazanıyor. Midjourney, kullanıcı/yaratıcı ilişkileri, üretim için kullanılan bir sosyal mesajlaşma platformu ve dolayısıyla doğrudan iletişim yoluyla birbirine bağlı bir topluluk ve en popüler eserlerin yayınlandığı bir galeriden oluşan karmaşık bir ağ. Bu çalışma, Midjourney'nin bir görüntü üretimi yazılımı olarak işlevini görsel politik bir düzlemde anlamaya odaklanmakta ve ortaya çıkan estetiğin kimin estetiği olduğu sorusuna cevap aramaktadır. Bu soruyu cevaplamak için bir jeneratif sistem olan Midjourney, kullanıcısının konumunu ortaya çıkarmak için jeneratif sanatçıların bireysel üretim sistemleriyle karşılaştırıldı. Karşılaştırma sonucu ortaya çıkan sorular ise Byung Chul Han'ın pürüzsüzün estetiği kavramı üzerinden yorumlanmıştır.
Sergi yapımı ve Galata Rum İlkokulu'nun ana salonu üzerine üç vaka analizi
(2023) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Erek, Ayşe Nur
Sergi tasarımı tarihinde, ilk kilise ve saray duvarlarına asılan eserlerden bugünkü güncel sanat müzelerine, bienallere hatta digital sergilere kadar uzanan ve süreçte önemli kırılma noktaları yaratan bir takım sergiler olmuştur. Kırılma noktaları yaratan farklı sergilerden her biri çeşitli kavramları sergi literatürünün içerisine dahil etmiştir. Sanat eseri, içeriğin ve kendi sınırlarının ötesinde sergilendiği yer, aydınlatması, grafik tasarımı, bulunduğu yapının kimliği, sirkülasyonu vb. unsurların bir araya gelmesiyle anlam kazanmaktadır. Bunların ötesi ziyaretçilerin yaşadığı deneyim ve sergi mekanından ayrılırken ortaya çıkan hisler, sergi sürecinin tamamlanmasını sağlamaktadır. Her serginin işleyişinde farklı karar mekanizmaları çeşitli roller oynamaktadır. Küratörün sanat üretimi sürecine ne kadar dahil olduğu, sanatçıya diğer aktörler tarafından ne tür kısıtlamaların getirildiği, mekanın potansiyellerinin sanatçı tarafından ne kadar değerlendirilebildiği, bütçe ve politik unsurların nasıl etkisi olduğu gibi pek çok katmanlı denklem sonucunda sergiler hazırlanmaktadır. Aynı mekanda yapılan sergilerde farklı ya da benzer anlayışların görülmesi mekanın sanat üretimindeki etkilerini ve direttiği unsurları ortaya koymaktadır. Sergi tasarımı, sanat eserlerinin sergilenmesine yönelik farklı yaklaşımların geliştirilmesine ve uygulanmasına olanak sağlamaktadır. Sanat mekanları, bir deneyim ve iletişim aracı olarak mekansal araştırmaların gerçekleştiği yerlerdir. Günümüz sergileri, mekansal deneyim kavramlarını sorgulatarak izleyicinin algısını doğrudan kazanmaya çalışmaktadır. Bienaller sergi yapımı tarihinde kırılma noktlarının en belirgin olduğu unsurlardan biri olmuştur ve getirdiği yenilikler, farklı mekan kullanımları ve sergilerin büyük kapsamları anlamında İstanbul Bienali özel bir yere sahiptir. İstanbul Bienali ve İstanbul Tasarım Bienali'nin çokça kullanılan mekanlarından biri olan Galata Rum İlköğretim Okulu gerek mimarisi, gerek de kendi okul kimliği ile gerçekleşen sergileri mekansal olarak yönlendirmiş, temalar bağlamında da destekleyici olmuştur. Sergi yapımı ve sergi tasarım tarihinden bahsettikten sonra Galata Rum İlköğretim Okulu'nun balkonlu ve en büyük sergi mekanı olan ana salonunda farklı yıllarda gerekleştirilmiş iki İstanbul Bienali sanatçı ve bir İstanbul Tasarım Bienali sanatısınının işlerini vaka olarak inceledikten sonra üçünün de mekanı kullanımındaki benzerlikler ve farklılıkları tespit etmekteyim. Bu mekanda hazırlanan sergilerde, Sürükleyici Sergi Tasarımı (Immersive Exhibition Design), Bağımsız Olarak Sergi Tasarımı (Exhibition Design As An Independent) ve Enstelasyonun Olarak Mekan İçinde Mekan (Space Within Space As An Installation) olmak üzere üç farklı sergi yapımından söz edilmektedir.
Istanbul as a fashion city
(Kadir Has Üniversitesi, 2019) Erek, Ayşe Nur; Coşkun Orlandi, Ayşe Elif; Erek, Ayşe Nur
This research aims to examine the Istanbul-based fashion design environment in the context of fashion city. As the main research question: Is it possible to define Istanbul as a fashion city? Istanbul; will be compared with the components of two fashion cities with their different dynamics such as Paris and Berlin. The concept of fashion city; within the framework of the fashion industry, gentrification, institutionalization and fashion as a cultural object in the city will be evaluated through fashion production and distribution channels. Looking at the formations of fashion capitals and fashion cities; institutionalization, segmentation, diffusion through cultural events and branding. In this context, the connection and the distance between fashion and the city of Istanbul will be examined. It is also important to examine Istanbul with the turning points in fashion history and current fashion, to analyze Istanbul on the fashion scene.