Aylin Çankaya
Ph.D. Candidate, School of Architecture, Department of Architectural Language,Communication and Design (National Technical University of Athens)
M.Arch History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture (İstanbul Bilgi University)
B.Arch (Eskişehir Osmangazi University)
M.Arch History, Theory and Criticism in Architecture (İstanbul Bilgi University)
B.Arch (Eskişehir Osmangazi University)
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Thesis by Aylin Çankaya
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands
Papers by Aylin Çankaya
Anahtar Kelimeler: Maltepe Dayanışma Ağı, biyopolitika, kentsel müşterekler, müşterekleşme, kolektif özne
This study reports about the Maltepe Solidarity Network, which draws attention to the urban commons by making solidarity relations work in the period from March 2020 to the following mid-November, when the first coronavirus case was announced in Turkey and related urban bans and regulations were put into effect. The practices of the Maltepe Solidarity Network, of which I am also a participant, are discussed with the differences in the acute period, which is the period when the effects of the epidemic caused radical changes in urban life, and the "controlled social life-normalization" period. Practices based on collective action against biopower in the metropolis, a biopolitical production area, are considered practices in which communities that establish their own security construct the collective subject against the neoliberal subject. In addition to being a breakdown of the solidarity network activities that reveal the neighborhoods as commons with commoning practices, the research also touches on the need for the care of the common and draws attention to the necessity of the politics of the commons in today's crisis environment.
Keywords: Maltepe Solidarity Network, biopolitics, urban commons, commoning, collective subject
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands
"Islandness" lies at the center of this thesis as a thought-provoking concept that addresses the absolute desolation of the island together with the relevant social and physical aspects in a melting pot. Overlapping boundaries of the conceptual scope and the physical space constitutes the uniqueness of the subject matter. The first chapter transforms the conceptualization into a literary practice. The following chapter approaches the historical accounts of Istanbul Islands in the way that they have been presented in their reduced terms in the prevalent historical discourse since the deterioration of desolation of the archipelago in the 18th century. Themes that appear in this narrative are expressions of these reduced terms. Interviews and observations that have been carried out in Burgazada which is despite a part of the archipelago, it is a sociological, spatial and sensuous whole in itself, present the unique but at the same time universal manifestation of "islandness" through conceptual, historical and actual contents. This thesis aims to present the islandness, the utopia of the island and "right to desolation", which is a fundamental individual right, as spatial issues. The precariat's interest in moving to the islands since the 2001 crisis have been assessed as a part of the question of the right to the city. The preference of the island, which Deleuze states as a "terrestrial nucleus", with respect to its actual relationship to the city is addressed as an effort built around primarily a break away and a rebirth in order to reestablish one's own relationship with the space. Right to the island is a demand for desolation. Keywords: islandness, right to the island, Burgazada, İstanbul's (Prince) Islands
Anahtar Kelimeler: Maltepe Dayanışma Ağı, biyopolitika, kentsel müşterekler, müşterekleşme, kolektif özne
This study reports about the Maltepe Solidarity Network, which draws attention to the urban commons by making solidarity relations work in the period from March 2020 to the following mid-November, when the first coronavirus case was announced in Turkey and related urban bans and regulations were put into effect. The practices of the Maltepe Solidarity Network, of which I am also a participant, are discussed with the differences in the acute period, which is the period when the effects of the epidemic caused radical changes in urban life, and the "controlled social life-normalization" period. Practices based on collective action against biopower in the metropolis, a biopolitical production area, are considered practices in which communities that establish their own security construct the collective subject against the neoliberal subject. In addition to being a breakdown of the solidarity network activities that reveal the neighborhoods as commons with commoning practices, the research also touches on the need for the care of the common and draws attention to the necessity of the politics of the commons in today's crisis environment.
Keywords: Maltepe Solidarity Network, biopolitics, urban commons, commoning, collective subject