Venue and Place

"Space and Place," a collection of articles on the relationship between space and place, edited by Gülşen Özaydın and Merve Akı, has been published by Yeni İnsan Yayınevi. This book is the second in the series, following "Spatiality: The State of Simultaneity in Art Production," also published by Yeni İnsan Yayınevi in 2020. In her Preface, Gülşen Özaydın says the following about the articles included in the book:

"The first article in the book, which addresses 'space and place,' a concept pair that has been discussed for a long time in the context of disciplines such as architecture, urbanism, anthropology, sociology, and geography, from different perspectives, is titled This Space Is No Longer This Place and is signed by Aykut Köksal. Aykut Köksal's text, which examines the concepts of space and place in a wide range of fields such as architecture, music, theater, and painting, opens these concepts to thought through cultural production in the traditional world, the context of modernism's meaning, subject-object relations, and simultaneity-diachrony, and defines a context for the reader to engage with these concepts, holds a foundational importance for the book.

Emre Zeytinoğlu's article titled The Sea as the Limit of Places: Leaving the Port is Being in the Opposite Port takes the reader on a different journey by discussing space and place with texts selected from poetry, novels, and philosophy. Önay Sözer, in his article Place, Space, and U-topia in Piri Reis's Cartographic Thought, states that Piri Reis saw a synthesis of the deep Islamic tradition and 16th-century Western science in his cartographic and geographical works, and defines his true historical personality by connecting it to the worldview of humanism and the Renaissance. The text by the late architectural theorist Atilla Yücel holds a special meaning for us. In his article Place, Placelessness, De-localization: A Journey Without Address from the Airport Crowd to the Green Line Wilderness, he moves from the crowded corridors, waiting rooms, and duty-free shops of an international airport, through the mechanical jet bridges leading to airplanes and inside airplane fuselages, and then, in the next sequence, turns to the abandoned, memory-lost streets of divided Nicosia, where no one has lived for decades. Jean-François Pérouse, in his article Insisting on Walking in the Megacity or Trying to Re-create Place: An Experience Between Yeniköy and Dış Kumsal, states that walking stubbornly is perhaps the simplest and most liberating method to question the commodification/division process of the city, and also provides an opportunity to see without considering official and dominant historical narratives. Aydan Balamir, in her article Inspiration from Place - Types of Relationship with Context, discusses how the characteristics of a place inspire the construction of architectural space, using three buildings for which she prepared reports for the Aga Khan Awards. İlhan Tekeli, in his article İzmir-Sea, İzmir Historical Research and Development Potentials, explains the İzmir Sea project as an example of participatory planning and looks at İzmir from a broader perspective as a place that he calls a democracy project rather than urban design, aiming for it to be an active hub of the Mediterranean city network. Günkut Akın, in his article Space: An Old Poetics?, states that architecture is also a source of poetic sensibility due to the traces it leaves in the imagination, and questions the intellectual behavior behind these two phenomena. Derin Öncel, in her article Galata: The Change of Place – The Staging of Space, attempts an essay focused on understanding and interpreting Galata's transformation process starting from the mid-19th century up to the present, and discusses today's Galata by conveying the layers in the urban fabric, the development of architectural types, new uses, and transformations from this framework."