Jury Members:
Ayşe Şentürer + Nizam Onur Sönmez + Erenalp Büyüktopçu + Elif Nur Adıgüzel
Meltem Erdem Kaya + Zeynep Günay + Gürbey Hiz + Sinan Logie
This diploma project intends to investigate ‘un-settled’ living practices and their architectural reflections that gradually evolve/transform/change through the reciprocal relations they constitute with ecology, climate, and geography. As a particular development of the stated aim, the unit aspires to reassemble the context of transhumance, with an emancipatory, visionary, critical, and creative architectural approach, aiming to leverage the thrilling potentials of un-settled modes of living, especially their tendency to oscillate between mobile and stable phases during their various interactions with an extensive environment.
In this context, the term geography refers to an entanglement of material-social relations produced constantly through the more-than-human universe. In that frame, geography is critically considered as an entanglement of topography, weather conditions, various organisms, vegetation, landscape, micro/macro politics on agriculture and livestock, human-centric perspectives, climate crisis, scarcity of resources, migration forms and dynamics, education and culture issues, and other significant factors.
