The RE-PUBLIC Workshop: REMAKING the PUBLIC SPACE

23 Ağustos 2014 Cumartesi

Social geographic web-based platform

Please visit:
http://www.archtheoryflanders.be/İstanbul
for more information
on the workshop products

Partners, Staff and Students

RE-PUBLIC Workshop is a joint undertaking between four higher education institutions including Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) (coordinator), Brandenburg Technical University (Germany), KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture (Belgium), and Politecnico di Torino (Italy) combining three different disciplines working on public space – architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture.

	Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) (coordinator)	Handan Türkoğlu Zeynep Günay Meriç Demir Özge Çelik
	Brandenburg Technical University (Germany)	Carlo Wolfgang Becker Christine Fuhrmann Thomas Knorr-Siedow
	KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture (Belgium)	Johan Verbeke Burak Pak Livia de Bethune
	Politecnico di Torino (Italy)	Alessandro Fubini Emanuela Saporito

Contact

Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban & Regional Planning

Taşkışla – Taksim, 34437 Istanbul

T: +90 (212) 293 13 00

F: +90 (212) 251 48 95

E-mail: republic.ip2014@gmail.com

Website: http://republic-ip2014.blogspot.com

Website: http://www.archtheoryflanders.be/istanbul/ [Web-based social geographic platform]

Contact info for staff and participants

Name Email

	Handan Türkoğlu Zeynep Günay Meriç Demir Özge Çelik Hüma KARTAL Hüma ŞAHİN Sezen TÜRKOĞLU Eda URAZ Merve KADAİFÇİ Neşe ÇAKIR ÖZTÜRK Görsev ARGIN Zeynep ÖZDEMİR Tuğçe TEZER	turkoglu@itu.edu.tr gunayz@itu.edu.tr mericdemir@gmail.com ozgecelik187@gmail.com huma91.ist@gmail.com humasahin@gmail.com turkoglusezen@gmail.com urazeda@gmail.com kadaifcimerve@gmail.com nesecakr@gmail.com gorsevargin@gmail.com zeynepozdemir37@gmail.com tugcetezer@gmail.com
	Carlo Wolfgang Becker Christine Fuhrmann Thomas Knorr-Siedow Florian HOTZKOW Daniel Phillip KRAUSE Sebastian-Alexander GRÜNWALD Alina Swana WILKENDING Daniel SKROBOL Ammar HORIA Nicole Torres MAILLEUX Özge YÜZBAŞLI Leonie Vanessa HAGEN	Carlo.Becker@tu-cottbus.de fuhrmann@tu-cottbus.de Knorrsie@tu-cottbus.de Florian.Hotzkow@tu-cottbus.de derkrause@berlin.com gruenseb@tu-cottbus.de alina.wilkending@googlemail.com skrobdan@tu-cottbus.de ammarhoria@gmail.com nicoletm93@gmail.com Oezge.Yuezbasli@tu-cottbus.de Leonie.hagen@t-online.de
	Johan Verbeke Burak Pak Livia de Bethune Alexander Davey THOMPSON Alexandru Ivan GRECENIUC Anca PANINOPOL Andreea MOCAN Daniela SCHUCHMANNOVÁ Stefana LASCHEVICHI Roberta ZVIRBLYTE	johan.verbeke@kuleuven.be burak.pak@kuleuven.be livia.debethune@kuleuven.be alexander.daveythomson@student.kuleuven.be alex_greceniuc@yahoo.com pani.anca@gmail.com andreeamocan18@yahoo.com d.schuchmannova@gmail.com efna_iasche@yahoo.com roberta.zvirblyte@gmail.com
	Alessandro Fubini Emanuela Saporito Marco NICASTRO Eleonora BONINO Stefano FRANCO Giacomo RIO Annalisa ROSSI Marco ORSELLO	alex@polito.it emanuela.saporito@polito.it mrc.nicastro@gmail.com eleonora.bonino@studenti.polito.it stefanofranco.br@gmail.com giacomo.rio@studenti.polito.it lisarouge92@hotmail.com orsellomarco@gmail.com

Practical Information

Travel & Accommodation & Meals

The arrangements on travel will be organised by partners themselves; the travel cost will be reimbursed by ITU regarding the ERASMUS IP funding scheme.

Accommodation and lunch will be centrally organised by the host institution - ITU; no individual bookings will be necessary for partners.

**Students will be accommodated in ITU Gumussuyu student dormitories

**Staff will be accommodated in ITU Macka guesthouse

Lunch will be centrally organised by the host institution - ITU; no individual bookings will be necessary for partners.

IMPORTANT INFO:

All the materials about travel including ticket copies, boarding passes, copies of passport pages showing arrival stamps must be submitted to organisation committee upon arrival to Istanbul. The copy of passport page with the departure stamp should be emailed to organisation committee upon arrival to home country.

Visa arrangements will be done by participants and staff.

Practical Information

Passport and Visas: Tourists are required to carry a valid passport. For some countries a visa is required. Consultation with the nearest Turkish Consulate or Turkish Embassy is advised. Visas can be obtained online or upon arrival.

Language: Turkish is the official language. But most people speak English, German or French as a second language.

Currency and Exchange: The monetary unit is Turkish Lira (TL). It is available in notes (lira) and coins (kuruş). Exchange rates are published every day. There is no limit on the amount of foreign currency that you can bring into Turkey. All major credit cards are accepted by most shops and restaurants.

Transportation: From the city centre, airport buses (HAVATAS) depart to Istanbul Atatürk International Airport every 30 minutes from 05.00-23.00. The ride takes approximately 40 minutes. All taxis are metered in Istanbul and they are yellow. See: http://havatas.com/ and havatas route uploaded in Dropbox.

Banks, Post Offices and Telephones: Official banks are generally open 09.00-17.00 Monday to Friday, including a lunch break from 12.00-13.30. There are fixed postage rates. Post offices are open 08.30-17.00 from Monday to Friday. The central office is also open 09.00-12.00 on Sunday. There are ATMs in Taskisla building.

Time Zone: Turkey is 2 hours ahead of Greenwich Mean Time.

Climate: All four seasons are experienced in Turkey. Climate is typically Mediterranean with dry summers and rain during the fall and autumn. A Mediterranean climate with its hot summer and mild winter prevail in Istanbul. July and August are the hottest months of the year. In July the average monthly temperature is a high of 28 C and a low of 19 C [~before global warming!!]

Electricity: The electric current in Turkey is 220 volts.

Venue

Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, “Taşkışla”, Hall no. 102 [Taşkışla Boulevard, Taksim/Şişli]

Taşkışla is the home of ITU Faculty of Architecture. It hosts the departments of Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Industrial Product Design, Landscape Architecture and Interior Architecture. It was designed as a medical school by M. Smith the UK Royal architect by 1847, and supervised by Ottoman builder İstefan. It was used for military purposes by 1849; damaged at 1894 earthquake and repaired by Italian architect R. D’Aranco. In 1944, it was designed as a school of architecture by German architect P.Bonatz and Turkish architect Emin Onat. Taksim Gezi Park is within the territories of Taşkışla.

Use the stairs for Cafeteria, 3rd floor

Workshop Venue

Hall 102

Istanbul Technical University

With a history stretching to 1773, ITU is strongly identified with architectural and engineering education and research in Turkey within a modern educational environment and strong academic staff. Since its inception and foundation under Ottoman rule, ITU has constantly lead the way in reform movements, and in the later era of the Republic of Turkey, and assumed pivotal roles in the reconstruction, modernisation, and administration of the country.

Brief history of ITU

1773 The Royal School of Naval Engineering

1795 The Royal School of Military Engineering

1847 Education in the field of Architecture was established

1883 Royal School of Civil Engineering Academy

1928 Gained university status

1944 Named as Istanbul Technical University

1969 A four year education system was introduced (BSc), + 2 years for M.Sc.

Department of Urban and Regional Planning

Established in 1982, ITU Urban and Regional Planning Department has a long tradition of planning education going back to the 1940s, when the Chair of Urban Planning was established within the Faculty of Architecture. The Department has consistently been one of the top programmes in the field of planning and is recognized nationally for its educational excellence. The mission of the Department is to provide future urban and regional planning practitioners and scholars the ability to comprehend community and space, to combine knowledge with creative and intellectual expertise, and to disseminate the accumulated scientific knowledge in the fields of research and practice to the community for the public good.

Outputs & Outcomes

RE-PUBLIC Workshop is expected to

Encourage students to develop their knowledge and skills in analytical thinking while integrating theory, policy and practice
Increase the knowledge-base about public space evaluation, place making and multicultural approaches to public space through lecture series, field studies and discussion sessions
Learn how to analyse urban environment and develop design ideas and understanding the needs of the various users and different cultures.
Increase the skills on conducting interactive and theoretical research and hands-on practice while enabling students and instructors to work together and exchange views in resolving universal problems
Encourage students and instructors to attain values including social cohesion, citizenship, sustainable communities, intercultural dialogue, etc.
Increase the volume and quality of interdisciplinary cooperation between higher education institutions and multinational teaching as the basis of future collaborations.

ECTS: The students participating in RE-PUBLIC will be granted 3 ECTS credits upon the agreement of recognition issues.

Expected outputs of the RE-PUBLIC Workshop are:

Power-point presentation on the results of the interactive research and planning process
Thematic workshop reports providing guidelines for future development to be presented to the cities that will thus benefit from the research

The final workshop results will also be included in the website as an e-book for the public.
A geographic web platform: a knowledge-base with an integrated learning/mapping tool reflecting different stages of the workshop
Exhibitions during the World Planning Day and the 2^nd Istanbul Design Biennal [November-December]
[The format of the exhibition materials will be announced later]

Course Materials & Reading List

Workshop participants have access to the following resources (please see dropbox):

maps
pervitich maps
aerial photographs
information on the city and surrounding area
tracing-paper, flipchart, projector
At the workshop venue there will be free access to internet. All participants and tutors are kindly asked to bring their own laptop computers as well as digital cameras.

Reading list

Adanalı, Y., A. (2011) De-spatialized Space as Neoliberal Utopia: Gentrified İstiklal Street and Commercialized Urban Spaces, Red Threath, 3.

Altman, I., Zube, E.H. (1989) Public Places and Spaces. NY: Plenum Press.

Bilsel, C. (2007) Remodeling the imperial capital in the early republican era: the Representation of history in Henry Prost's planning of Istanbul. J. Osmond, A. Cimdina (Ed) Power and Culture: Identity, Ideology, Representation, Pisa University Press, Pisa, 83-97.

Boyer, M.C. (1993) The city of illusion: New York’s public places, P.L. Knox (Ed) The Restless Urban Landscape, New Jersey: Prentice Hall, 111-126.

Burgers, J. (2000) Urban landscapes: on public space in the post-industrial city. Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 15, 145-164.

Carr, S., Francis, M., Rivlin, L.G., Stone, A.M. (1992) Public Space, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Celik, Z., Favro, D., Ingersoll, R. (1994) Streets and the urban process, Z. Celik, D. Favro, R. Ingersoll Ed) Streets: Critical Perspectives on Public Space, California: University of California Press, 1-7.

Crawford, M. (1992) The world in a shopping mall. M. Sorkin (Ed) Variations on a Theme Park, New York: The Noonday Press, 3-30.

Crawford, M. (1995) Contesting the Public Realm: Struggles over Public Space in Los Angeles, Journal of Architectural Education, 49 (1), 4-9.

Davis, M. (1992) Fortress Los Angeles: The militarization of urban space. M. Sorkin (Ed) Variations on a Theme Park, New York: The Noonday Press, 154-180.

Defilippis, J. (1997) From a public re-creation to private recreation: The transformation of public space in South Street Seaport, Journal of Urban Affairs, 19 (4), 405-417.

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Erkut, G. (2014) The Case of Beyoğlu, Istanbul: Dimensions of Urban Re-development. Technische Universität Berlin Urban Management Programme, Berlin.

Fainstain, S. (2000) New directions in planning theory. Urban Affairs Review, 35 (4), 451-478.

Fraser, N. (1993) Rethinking the Public Sphere: A Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy, in B. Robbins (Ed) The Phantom Public Sphere, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

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Gehl, J. (2007) Public spaces for a changing public life. C.W. Thompson, P. Travlou (Ed) Open Space: People Space, Oxon: Taylor& Francis, 3- 22.

Goodwin, M. (1993) The city as commodity: the contested spaces of urban development. G. Philo, C. Philo (Ed) Selling Places: The City as Cultural Capital, Past and Present, Oxford/New York: Pergamon Press, 145-162.

Habermas, J. (1989) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Habraken, J (1998) The Structure of the Ordinary, Cambridge, London: MIT Press.

Healey, P. (1997) Collaborative Planning – Shaping Places in Fragmented Societies, London: Macmillian Press.

Healey, P. (1998) Building institutional capacity through collaborative approaches to urban planning. Environment and Planning A, 30, 1531 – 1546.

Healey, P. (2001) Towards a more place-focused planning system in Britain. A. Madanipour, A. (Ed) The Governance of Place: Space and Planning Processes, Aldershot: Ashgate, 265 – 286.

Healey, P. (2002) On creating the city as a collective resource. Urban Studies, 39 (10), 1777.

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Madanipour, A. (2003) Cities Actions Against Social Exclusion, Brussels: Eurocities.

Madanipour, A. (2003) Public and Private Spaces of the City, London: Routledge.

Madanipour, A. (2014) Public Space and the Challenges of Urban Transformation in Europe, Kindle Locations (4930-4931), Taylor and Francis.

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***Istanbul Research Institute Blog, History of the Taksim Promenade, http://blog.iae.org.tr/index.php/sergiler/taksim-gezi-parkinin-tarihcesi/?lang=en