• About the Exhibition

    Within the context of a graduate course and an undergraduate design studio, Grandbazaar became the focus of the urban research & reading area; a discovery field where experiences of the place experimented, presented and re-presented. With its ever articulating and changing physical and fictive structure, without hiding its imperfect embodiment, the Grandbazaar is a constantly evolving "playground" in the thoughts of coordinators and students of this project. The project presents the place analysis, living sections and audio-visual works of a group of graduate and undergraduate students from Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture.

  • Sergi Hakkinda

    Bir tasarim studyosu ve bir yuksek lisans dersi kapsaminda kentsel bir arastirma/okuma odagi olarak secilen Kapalicarsi, yer uzerine gozlem, deneyim ve bu deneyimleri aktarma/sunma denemelerinin yapildigi bir kesif alani olarak degerlendirilmektedir. Surekli eklemlenen, degisen fiziksel ve kurgusal yapisiyla katmanlasan ve kusurlulugunu gizlemeyen varligiyla Kapalicarsi, yurutuculerin ve ogrencilerin dusuncelerinde devingen bir oyun alanidir. Bu kapsamda lisansustu ve lisans ogrencilerinin hazirlamis oldugu yer analizleri, yasayan kesitler ve video/gorsel sunum calismalariyla sergilenmektedir.

  • ITU Landscape Architecture Undergraduate Program Landscape Design I Design Studio

    Project Coordinators: Assoc.Prof.Dr. A.Senem Deviren, Res.Assist. Birge Yildirim, M.Sena Izgi

    Selin Agca, Ceren Altan, Timea Baranyak, Julian Birkmaier, Fulya Dudukcu, Deniz Erdem, Nebibe Merve Kayabasi, Feyza Kimyacioglu, Ayse Koray, Emire Korkmaz, Aysel Mehdiyev, Melis Musaoglu, Nur Banu Ozbalta, Aykut Ozen, Goksu Soyturk, Damla Tanyildiz, Melike Yetim, Elif Yurtkuran

  • ITU Interdisciplinary Urban Design Graduate Program Urban Design Practices II Graduate Course

    Project Coordinators: Assoc.Prof.Dr. A.Senem Deviren, M.Sena Izgi

    Batuhan Akkaya, Seyma Alpaslan, Goksen Ezgi Boz, Elif Demiroglu, Irem Erin, Sima Vaez Eslami, Yasin Baris Gogus, Mahsa Jabbari Hagh, Melih Kos, Yasemin Kublu, Ezgi Kucuk, Doga Dinemis Kusuluoglu, Yagmur Kutlar, Samira Malek, Wibisono Bagus Nimpuno, Manolya Ozdemir, Alev Ozdindar, Ipek Pola, Dan Smeeth, Ceyda Sungur, Fikriye Asli Yalcin

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Rebirth

by Elif Demiroglu
A REBIRTH/ A JOURNEY THROUGH THE GATES, STREETS AND INNS OF GRANDBAZAAR Life can quite be imagined as a collection of journeys. We die and born several times as we end one journey and begin another. A journey that changes one, as you begin as something else and end as something else over and over again. One of these journeys do occur for the ones who accidentally or willingly enter one of the gates, stroll in the labyrinthetic streets and breathe through the inns of Grandbazaar. This particular journey of rebirth begins as the Grandbazaar calls you with twenty one arms wide open to enter through its gates. Wellcoming everyone north, south, east and west. Hard to resist this strong wellcoming call, people rush into Grandbazaar with no hesitation, leaving themselves, letting the flow take them. Grandbazaar invites all by just saying :Come. Once entering the place the hardest phase begins which is the walking around, strolling away in the streets of Grandbazaar. Easy to enter hard to get out, one becomes mesmerized for all the options and chances she could chose and take. Through this complicated road trip this walk turns into a hypnotic dance. A dance that would lead into an evolution, the change of self. An everlasting coreography that has no particular beginning or end. Hypnotized while dancing one slowly comes to the realization of the evolution. When the pain becomes the most vivid for the change is a painful process, the dance starts slowly to fade. As the one’s new self completes its evolution, the time for the rebirth comes and the first breath of life is taken in for the first time at the inns. Which are the lungs of the Grandbazaar for they are the only spaces one can see and breathe the air, the voids. This journey of entering, dancing and breathing gives birth to a new life or self with the first breath. Just like a sufi waiting for it’s time to come. Coming to this wellcoming place as anyone, suffering through the streets, performing the hypnotic dance and finally completing the spiritual journey and turning into a sufi.