Re-reading Istiklal Street using an optical toy: zoetrope montage
| dc.authorid | Özdamar, Esen Gökçe/0000-0001-7189-3633 | |
| dc.authorwosid | Özdamar, Esen Gökçe/W-2898-2019 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Özdamar, Esen Gökçe | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-04-20T08:04:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-04-20T08:04:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.department | Fakülteler, Güzel Sanatlar Tasarım ve Mimarlık Fakültesi, Mimarlık Bölümü | |
| dc.description.abstract | This article examines multi-modal perceptions of Istiklal Street, a public space in Istanbul, using a zoetrope, an optical, scientific, and educational instrument invented in the mid-nineteenth century that was a predecessor to film in early cinema. It discusses how this tool increases the awareness of architectural students to environmental perception through observation. Constructing a black curtained zoetrope with a radius of five metres allowed them to metaphorically inhabit the optical device as it was large enough for their bodies to enter. After experiencing Istiklal Street as flaneur/flaneuse, students aimed to understand its heterogenous and fragmented narrative using the zoetrope. Re-reading the street through a zoetrope enabled a paradoxical interplay between the device and its scale. By interacting with a zoetrope to create different fragmented movements and scales, movement in the urban space was understood as more than a visual perception or transient state of curiosity. Instead, the students comprehended architectural production through filmmaking as 'a mode of reflection' rather than as mere representation. The zoetrope became a medium through which the students' visual, haptic, and kinaesthetic senses were fused together. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | Bilkont Foreign Trade and Textile Industries Inc. | |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The project named 'Zoetrope Montage', which is discussed in this article, was realised as a month-long first-year project at Tekirdag Namik Kemal University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture. The project, under the name of Sakinsalon studio, was taught and conducted by myself and Assistant Professor Oksan Tandogan. I would like to thank all my students in my first-year project studio, and especially all stu dents who contributed to the work and efforts cited in this article. Students who took part in the study are (in alphabetical order): Gulsum Alban Taha Yunus Aydin, Burcu Babaoglu, Cuneyt Basaran, Hayrullah Basaran, Irem Nur Biyik, Mehmet Bozkurt, Metin Filgoz, Busra Isildak, Selin Koca Pinar Kodal, Mehmet Ali Kurt, Seyda Kirac, Rumeysa Ogutcu, Ibrahim Okan Oksuz, Alper Oner, Burak Saral, Hande Savas, Enes Sahin, Veysel Sahin Sermin Senturk, Oguz Ugurlu, and Mirac Meliksah Yalcin. I would also like to thank Tekirdag Namik Kemal University Rectorate, Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and my colleagues Assistant Proffesor Oksan Tandogan, lecturer and construction engineer Ahmet Bal, and John Lewis, construction supervisor Orhan Bala, construction foreman Rasim Usta, and the sponsorship of Bilkont Foreign Trade and Textile Industries Inc. A video of this project, called Zoetrope Montage, was submitted to the Henning Larsen Architecture + Film Competition held in Denmark in March 2015. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S1359135522000239 | |
| dc.identifier.endpage | 183 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1359-1355 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 1474-0516 | |
| dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.startpage | 169 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135522000239 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11776/11038 | |
| dc.identifier.volume | 26 | |
| dc.identifier.wos | WOS:000840360800001 | |
| dc.identifier.wosquality | N/A | |
| dc.indekslendigikaynak | Web of Science | |
| dc.institutionauthor | Özdamar, Esen Gökçe | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge Univ Press | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Arq-Architectural Research Quarterly | |
| dc.relation.publicationcategory | Makale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı | en_US |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess | |
| dc.title | Re-reading Istiklal Street using an optical toy: zoetrope montage | |
| dc.type | Article |
