Browsing by Author "Baydar, Gulsum"

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ABOLISH HUMAN BANS: INTERTWINED HISTORIES OF ARCHITECTURE
(INTELLECT LTD, 2024) Gulsum Baydar; Baydar, Gulsum
Architecture in Translation: Germany, Turkey, the Modern House
(Intellect Ltd, 2013) Baydar, Gulsum
Citation - WoS: 1
Citation - Scopus: 3
BEDROOMS IN EXCESS FEMINIST STRATEGIES USED BY TRACEY EMIN AND SEMIHA BERKSOY
(OLD CITY PUBLISHING INC, 2012) Gulsum Baydar; Baydar, Gulsum
Civil Architectural Memory Ankara: 1930-1980
(Intellect Ltd, 2017) Baydar, Gulsum
Citation - WoS: 6
Citation - Scopus: 6
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad
(Oxford University Press, 2018) Gülsüm Baydar; Murat Komesli; Ahenk Yılmaz; Kivanç Kilinç; Kilinc, Kivanc; Yilmaz, Ahenk; Baydar, Gulsum; Komesli, Murat
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdisciplinary analysis of the built environment via digital media. Two social housing projects in _Izmir are chosen as case studies as an initial step to be developed toward a potentially international digital platform. The theoretical premises of the project are based on the renowned cultural theorist Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Triad which distinguishes between representations of space representational spaces or spaces of representation and spatial practices. Following this framework the collected data are organized in three sections which are reflected in the digital interface. These are respectively titled 'implementations' which contains architectural drawings and visual recordings of interviews with the chief architect of the projects, 'perceptions' which includes related texts that are scanned from Web sites newspapers journals and conference proceedings, and 'lived experiences' which contains photographs and visual records of on-site interviews with the users of the two housing estates. Users of the digital interface are enabled access to data in each category by means of choosing one of eighty-three related keywords. The latter are derived from the digital analyses of discursive material. By enabling the comparison of the sections of spatial data for each settlement and between the two settlements the digital platform has the potential to inform decision-making processes in future social housing projects. © 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Citation - WoS: 2
Gender Public Space and Resistance
(UCL PRESS, 2014) Gulsum Baydar; Baydar, Gulsum
On May 27 2013 at 11: 30 pm bulldozers drove into Gezi a central park in Taksim Istanbul to uproot five trees in preparation for future construction. Plans for the redevelopment had been announced two years before by the Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and in response two local activist groups had been formed: 'Taksim Solidarity' and the 'Society for the Preservation and Beautification of Gezi Park'. Founded to to publicise the historical status of the park and protect what remains a symbolically important site-and one of the few recreation areas in the central area of Istanbul-members of these groups were amongst the first to protest as the bulldozers rolled in. Within hours a group of twenty to thirty activists had begun a sit-in. In the coming days as the number of demonstrators increased to hundreds the 'resistance' spread to other neighbourhoods in Istanbul. It also manifest itself in other cities across the country. The small scale sit-in that commenced in the night of May 27th had become a catalyst for a nationwide movement with global repercussions. It subsequently became known interchangeably as the Gezi movement the Gezi resistance and Gezi events. The space of the protests was no longer bounded by Gezi Park itself and the movement was no longer limited to a specific and local planning agenda. Taking criticism of the renovation plans for Taksim as their starting point the protesters also raised their voices against what they considered the authoritarian policies of the the conservative government and more specifically the social pronouncements of the Prime Minister. The governmental response was violent police intervention. Within a month five protesters and one policeman had died hundreds of others were injured and many protestors were arrested across the country. In the midst of what the government defined as anarchy and subversive acts multiple social and cultural assumptions were overturned and in Deleuze and Guattari's terms events and behaviours were deterritiorialized. Transient actions in established spaces smoothed the striated spaces of government planning and equally significantly a radical and momentary reconceptualisation of gendered roles and spaces was established.
Hotels and Highways: The Construction of Modernization Theory in Cold War Turkey
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2019) Gulsum Baydar; Baydar, Gulsum
Citation - WoS: 1
LIVING IN PURGATORY: HOMELESSNESS AMIDST URBAN REGENERATION IN SALHANE IZMIR (1)
(MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIV, 2018) Gulsum Baydar; Cansu Karakiz; Karakiz, Cansu; Baydar, Gulsum
This article analyzes the effects of urban regeneration on the everyday lives and subjectivities of the residents of Salhane which was announced to be Izmir's new city center in 2001. Folkart Towers which were completed in 2014 are the first mixed-use buildings in the area. Surrounded by warehouses and a slum neighbourhood on two sides the latter consists of twin towers which accommodate offices residences and a broad range of commercial facilities. Folkart Towers lead radical economic social and cultural transformations in the area where the construction of numerous eye-catching skyscapers shopping centers and luxury residences are in the pipeline. The seemingly extravagant lifestyle that is represented by the twin towers is very different than the harsh living conditions of its neighbouring slum area. At first sight the difference may be explained by such binary terms as rich/poor privileged/marginal urban/rural and planned/unplanned. However a deeper analysis reveals a more complicated and multi-layered situation. The present study on the subjectivities and everyday lives of Folkart Towers and slum residents is informed by both field work that has been conducted in the area and psychoanalytical theories of subjectivity which consider the relationship between its visual and sensational components. Research reveals that both components of the subjectivities of the residents of Folkart Towers and the slum neighbourhood are effected by the regeneration processes in Salhane whereby all parties experience homelessness in different ways. This article provides a framework for the analysis of the selationship between subjectivity and space in general and the effects of Salhane's urban regeneration on its inhabitants' subjectivities in particular.
Citation - WoS: 1
TREACHEROUS PRODUCTIONS OF FANTASY: AGAOGLU HOUSING COMMERCIALS
(ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2017) Gulsum Baydar; Cansu Karakiz; Karakiz, Cansu; Baydar, Gulsum
Ali Agaoglu is the leading figure in the construction industry in Turkey specializing in luxury housing estates. His sales figures have reached record levels since the early 2000s far surpassing those of other similar entrepreneurs'. While governmental policies that prioritize the development of the construction sector partially account for Agaoglu's commercial success we contend that the analysis of popular media images is essential in order to understand his estates' popularity. Based on a close reading of his media appearances in housing commercials and interviews in the light of psychoanalytical theory we argue that Agaoglu has manufactured a realizable fantasy for his clients which structures their desires in the cultural context of consumer capitalism. However the limits of Agaoglu's fantasy world of housing were tested in an unexpected outbreak in one of his estates where the homeowers traversed their fantasies.
Turkey, Modern Architectures in History Series
(Intellect Ltd, 2013) Baydar, Gulsum
Victims of Commemoration: The Architecture and Violence of Confronting the Past in Turkey
(Intellect Ltd, 2024) Baydar, Gulsum