Papers by İpek Kaştaş Uzun
ITU Press Press of the Istanbul Technical University, May 31, 2023
Focusing on contemporary Turkey's "nation gardens" and the state and governmental policies to bui... more Focusing on contemporary Turkey's "nation gardens" and the state and governmental policies to build them, this study investigated the development processes and design features of these public green spaces with respect to those from past eras of Turkey (extending to Ottoman and pre-Ottoman history) and the development of public green spaces as the state's symbolic and spatial tools. The study relied on secondary sources about public green spaces from past eras of Turkey and also on the review of online news about "nation gardens" initiated after President Erdoğan's announcement in May 2018. Our findings suggested that public green spaces in Turkey have played an important role in displaying the state's power nationally and internationally as well as to transfer the state's ideologies to people and thus, to build new identities of 'citizens.' Interestingly, in sharing these intentions of past policies for public green spaces, the recent introduction of nation gardens differs from those in the 19th and 20th century. Without any emphasis on modernization goals in the western-style, recent official talks described nation gardens as a way to raise Turkey and the government's reputation both nationally and internationally, while also referring to past eras but with other characteristics as the source of "traditions" extending to today. Keywords Nation gardens, Public green spaces, Park planning and design, Ottoman Empire, Turkey Öz Çalışma, günümüz Türkiye'sindeki 'millet bahçeleri' ve bunları üretmeye yönelik devlet ve hükümet politikalarına odaklanırken; kamusal yeşil alanların devlet tarafından sembolik ve mekânsal araçlar olarak geliştirilmesini ve bu süreçlerdeki plan ve tasarım kriterlerini Türkiye tarihinin eski dönemleri (Osmanlı ve Osmanlı öncesi) ile ilişkilendirerek araştırmıştır. Çalışma, kamusal yeşil alanların tarihi dönemlerdeki özelliklerini ikincil yazınsal kaynaklara ve Mayıs 2018'de Başkan Recep Tayyip Erdoğan'ın duyurduğu "millet bahçesi" projelerine ve uygulamalarına dair internet haberlerini incelememize dayanarak gelişmiştir. Araştırma sonuçlarına göre, kamusal yeşil alanlar devletin uluslararası ve ulusal platformlarda gücünü sergilemesinde, devlet ideolojilerinin halka aktarılmasında ve yeni 'vatandaş' ve toplum kimlikleri oluşturmakta önemli rol This work is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
Turkish online journal of design, art and communication, Jul 1, 2020
Design related fields are quite intricate and it is hard to define strict boundaries in between t... more Design related fields are quite intricate and it is hard to define strict boundaries in between these disciplines which cause the necessity of collaboration. Especially during professional careers, designers work in multidisciplinary environments where they need to develop responses collaboratively. However, undergraduate design education is being criticized for missing to fulfill this need. The aim of this paper is to discuss the role and benefits of multidisciplinary design education with the example of the course named "An Introduction to Contemporary Architectural Landscaping". As the methodology of the paper, through deconstruction of the 3 parted course structure and analysis of student works, this paper analyses the role of a multidisciplinary education on students' learning experiences. First two parts of the course focus on technical aspects of landscape architecture discipline, and cultural, physiological and psychological effects of landscape projects for users. Last part of the course focus on creating a platform for students to work in collaboration with other students to gain practical experience in design field where they develop a landscape architecture project on sites from their near environments. There are three main findings of the study. Firstly, inclusion of students from different disciplines in the same course increases the success rate via cross-learning experiences. Secondly, during design education, having the chance of participation to courses from different disciplines help to broaden students' perspectives on problem solving during design phase. Finally, projects in environments that students experience in their everyday life increase their success rates. Results of the study that is based on the outcomes of the course that is conducted with the students of two different design departments indicate that this course structure and projects that are designed can be a guide for other design courses to develop a multidisciplinary course structure to include students from different disciplines, enrich their learning experiences and success after graduation.
Neighborhood parks can provide residents with an easy access to high level of cooling effect near... more Neighborhood parks can provide residents with an easy access to high level of cooling effect nearby their houses in cities such as Izmir with Mediterranean climate. The literature in general expects that those open spaces with higher thermal comfort attract more users. However, presence of thermal comfort at each park is not given. To provide and improve parks’ thermal comfort, parks’ location and spatial design with amenities and vegetation must be paid attention objectively and also according to user perception of thermal comfort.Evolving in three park-rich districts of Izmir, this case study investigates how number of users and user perception of thermal comfort in parks relate to those parks’ physical characteristics. It has two stages: With t-tests, it analyses whether and how observed number of users in 95 parks and also demographic and behavioral characteristics in 42 parks in-use relate to these parks’ amenities and green landscape. Then, focusing on nine parks with relative...
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Papers by İpek Kaştaş Uzun