Papers by Mekselina Gececi
Space can be accepted as a political indicator of power relations that are changed and regenerate... more Space can be accepted as a political indicator of power relations that are changed and regenerated both on a global and local scale. While power ideologies become visible through space, they also generate systems of control over space. Power mechanisms use space as a tool to control the formation of all kinds of "others" united around a common set of values, against the ideological hegemony they establish over society. The Hot Skull series, which was released on Netflix in 2022 and adapted from Afşin Kum's 2016 novel of the same name, is a significant example of the representation of the changing power relations over space during the epidemic. In the series, after the worldwide epidemic, the Anti-Epidemic Institution (AEI), which was established in Turkiye, became the sole power in the country, legitimizing control over individuals' bodies through the epidemic by using different technologies. Due to the nature of epidemics, separating people that may be against the power facilitates the power's control over society and space. In this direction, the fear of being sick, the marginalization of the sick and the fear of the other trigger the emergence of new control mechanisms both in the city and in smaller scaled spaces. In this direction, the restricted areas, neighborhoods, streets, and other places where daily life takes place in the city have been taken under control by the power. The AEI limited the physical connection with the outside world by surrounding the entire city with high walls and established a new inward (closed) order by dividing the city into zones. In this order, the new image of squares, avenues and streets produced after the epidemic does not allow coexistence in the public sphere, thus preventing the formation of anti-power groups. The aim of this study is to discuss which dimensions and how the relationship between power control and space through the Hot Skull series.
With the COVID-19 epidemic that emerged in 2019 and rapidly affected the whole world, the use of ... more With the COVID-19 epidemic that emerged in 2019 and rapidly affected the whole world, the use of structures called tiny houses has become widespread. These small living spaces can be thought of as multipurpose spaces that offer a flexible living space alternative to lifestyles that have changed with the epidemic, allow one to get away from closed spaces and experience nature after long quarantine processes, and deliver indoor and outdoor use without time separation. The Covid-19 process has brought to mind the need to rethink the housing problem. For this reason, small living spaces (tiny houses) that have the potential to create a solution to the housing problem that may arise under different conditions (natural disasters, migration, tourism activities, etc.), was given as a subject in the "Interior Architecture Studio I" course in Biruni University Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, 2021-2022 academic year fall semester. In this direction, topics such as temporary accommodation in the activity area, temporary accommodation in touristic areas, shelter in case of disaster, shelter for seasonal workers, excavation house at the archaeological excavation site, temporary accommodation for students, and temporary accommodation in workshops were presented to the students. The students were asked to consider one of these issues as a design problem and to design the spaces, structures, and campus by determining the needs program in accordance with the subject. The students were expected to produce environmentally friendly, sustainable, and functional solutions where user needs are met in limited space, narrow spaces are used efficiently (maximum benefit is achieved in minimum space), geographical features of the space are taken into consideration, local materials are at the forefront. Designers have individual and collective responsibilities in equipment-product-space design, and material selection for humanity, nature, and the environment. In this study, it is aimed to enable the students of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design to gain awareness of professional responsibility during their undergraduate education, to understand the importance of fulfilling their responsibilities towards the user, society, nature, and the environment, and to produce qualified projects in this direction. The development process of the student projects on "small living spaces" has been explained in detail in stages. The students, who were left free to choose the location and scenario, had the opportunity to work on a current and awareness-raising issue, to experience different scenarios that are also the subject of social responsibility projects, and gained the ability to use a small area with maximum efficiency.
European Journal of Science and Technology, 2021
From Threshold to Space-From Space to Place Yeldegirmeni-Rasimpasa Neighbourhood
Urban and arc... more From Threshold to Space-From Space to Place Yeldegirmeni-Rasimpasa Neighbourhood
Urban and architecture are two main spatial elements that affect and transform each other. While urban settlement consists of urban landscape like dimensions of building blocks, street patterns, the architectural form includes the horizontal and vertical components of the buildings, the height of the building, the width of the facade, the windows, the doors, the building indentations and protrusions, etc. formed by features. At this point, architectural thresholds are a building intersection, as well as creating transition spaces that we come and go through frequently during the day; facade elements, building entrances are the details that enrich the architecture.
The uniform construction seen in today's cities is far from reflecting the historical and cultural values of the city with abstract architectural designs from the environment and makes it difficult to establish a personal connection with the place. This situation causes
urban memory to be damaged day by day and alienates those living in Istanbul from the city. Thresholds; as the building entrance and the details of the entrance, it stands out as the details that bring awareness to the city and architecture, increasing the perception of place. In this paper, the space-place dialectic is handled as "being a place" through threshold elements. Traditional architectural details such as a bay window, overhanging, arcaded, fringed, wooden framed wall in Yeldeğirmeni-Rasimpaşa District, which are now being forgotten, are examined as "threshold-forming elements". Threshold elements in Yeldeğirmeni- Rasimpaşa Neighborhood; entrance and physical recesses and protrusions and details of the entrance (door-window, wall, stairs, pavement, landscaping equipment, bay window, eaves, arcade, column-column, etc.), courtyard (Atrium), passage areas, building interfaces (pavement cafes and eating and drinking places) are discussed in 3 sections.The findings obtained from the fieldwork were processed on the 1/1000 Implementation Development Plan and 1/15000 scale Master Development Plans obtained from Kadıköy Municipality. In the study, which is based on fieldwork and literature research, it is concluded that Yeldeğirmeni Rasimpaşa neighborhood is a district rich in threshold elements in the metropolitan city of Istanbul, and that it exhibits an exemplary spatial syntax for the perception of "place" by forming a local cross-section in the metropolitan city Istanbul.
3rd International Culture, Art and Literature Congress, 2021
Reading the Change of Architectural Discourse from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey o... more Reading the Change of Architectural Discourse from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey on Postage Stamps
Postage stamps, as a visual document of history, are an object of mass communication. They are the conveyor of important historical events, people's way of life, cultural values of a country and national identity. They are a propaganda tool shaped by the ideological approach of states. Thus, they are the reflection of the state identity that is wanted to be created. They ensure the rapid dissemination of information and issues of the period within the society. It is possible to trace historical change in time on postage stamps printed about subjects such as art, literature, important persons and historical events, natural beauties of the country, architectural structures. In 1862, 23 years after the postal organization was established, the first stamps were produced in the Ottoman Empire and architectural structures began to be the subject of postage stamps. Architectural buildings, which were built as a reflection of the state policy adopted by the Ottoman Empire, were documented through postage stamps. Postage stamps, which did not lose their importance as a communication medium in the Republican Period, continued to be a propaganda tool about architectural buildings. The buildings that are the subject of postage stamps provide to trace of the architectural discourse that the state wants to highlight. Postage stamps have been ignored in architectural researches about history and have not received the necessary attention. Today, the archives of postage stamps still wait as a field of study to reach the information looking from the present to the past when the letter was the primary medium of communication. Based on the postage stamp archives, it is aimed to compare the architectural images that were intended to be produced in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey, and to reproduce the architectural discourses of the state. In this direction, within the scope of the study, postage stamps on architectural buildings printed in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey were examined comparatively. The architectural discourse and its change were evaluated through the stylistic features of the buildings that were repeatedly highlighted on postage stamps
Mimar Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk ve Çalışmaları, 2021
Architect Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk and His Works
In this paper, the life and works of the archit... more Architect Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk and His Works
In this paper, the life and works of the architect Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk, who is a member of the Association of Ottoman Engineer and Architect, were examined, although it was very important for the period, it was not fully emphasized. From the II. Constitutional Monarchy to the Republic, being included Architect Nihad in the associations established by Ottoman engineers and architects is an important indicator of the "freedom" environment in which he grew up and it influence on him.
Architect Nihad, who grew up in the Evkaf ecole of Architect Kemaleddin, became an important representative of the National Architecture style from the Ottoman to the Republic. Koç University Mehmet Nihat Nigizberk Collection of Architectural Drawings and Photographs, which was opened in June 2019, created a new resource to illuminate the gaps of Architect Nihad's work. The article "Architect Nihad Nigizberk, 1878-1945" published by Vasfi Egeli in Arkitekt magazine after the death of Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk is the earliest text written about him.
"Mehmet Nihat Nigisberk's Contributions, Foundations Administration and Architect Kemalettin" written by Ali Cengizkan at the Symposium of Architect Kemalettin and His Period, Architecture / Social Life / Politics organized by TMMOB Chamber of Architects in 2007, provided the most comprehensive information about Nihad Nigizberk, However the life of Nigizberk is examined through Architect Kemaleddin. In this study, it is aimed to increase the knowledge on Architect Nihad by adding new information and documents.
Books by Mekselina Gececi
Studies on Cinematography and Narrative in Film: Sequels, Serials and Trilogies, 2024
“The first film series
shot as a continuation in the history of cinema is the Sherlock Holmes
fil... more “The first film series
shot as a continuation in the history of cinema is the Sherlock Holmes
films shot shortly after the invention of cinema. This series, which
started with Sherlock Holmes I (Viggo Larsen, 1908), continued until
1910 with a total of 6 films produced by the same director. “Making a
sequel wasn’t something Hollywood used very often until the late 1970s.
With the development of popular culture, the number of applications for
sequels has gradually increased; With the Oscar for The Godfather, a
1972 Francis Ford Coppola movie, the sequel of this movie was also
encouraged” (Göral, 2003, p.105-106). There are many elements in the
concept of visual continuity and they are all interrelated. In films or
film series that are described as sequels, establishing a visual
integrity relationship between films comes to the fore. The concept of
the sequel appears in two ways. Sometimes, while the ideas are scripted,
the story is divided into more than one part. Sometimes the story is
planned as a single movie, and after a certain time, it can be realized
as a follow-up movie/films for different reasons. In both systems of
expression, it is necessary to seek harmony between all elements of
visual design. This research aims to include analyzes that examine
sequels, serials and trilogy on the axis of cinematography and
narration.
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Papers by Mekselina Gececi
Urban and architecture are two main spatial elements that affect and transform each other. While urban settlement consists of urban landscape like dimensions of building blocks, street patterns, the architectural form includes the horizontal and vertical components of the buildings, the height of the building, the width of the facade, the windows, the doors, the building indentations and protrusions, etc. formed by features. At this point, architectural thresholds are a building intersection, as well as creating transition spaces that we come and go through frequently during the day; facade elements, building entrances are the details that enrich the architecture.
The uniform construction seen in today's cities is far from reflecting the historical and cultural values of the city with abstract architectural designs from the environment and makes it difficult to establish a personal connection with the place. This situation causes
urban memory to be damaged day by day and alienates those living in Istanbul from the city. Thresholds; as the building entrance and the details of the entrance, it stands out as the details that bring awareness to the city and architecture, increasing the perception of place. In this paper, the space-place dialectic is handled as "being a place" through threshold elements. Traditional architectural details such as a bay window, overhanging, arcaded, fringed, wooden framed wall in Yeldeğirmeni-Rasimpaşa District, which are now being forgotten, are examined as "threshold-forming elements". Threshold elements in Yeldeğirmeni- Rasimpaşa Neighborhood; entrance and physical recesses and protrusions and details of the entrance (door-window, wall, stairs, pavement, landscaping equipment, bay window, eaves, arcade, column-column, etc.), courtyard (Atrium), passage areas, building interfaces (pavement cafes and eating and drinking places) are discussed in 3 sections.The findings obtained from the fieldwork were processed on the 1/1000 Implementation Development Plan and 1/15000 scale Master Development Plans obtained from Kadıköy Municipality. In the study, which is based on fieldwork and literature research, it is concluded that Yeldeğirmeni Rasimpaşa neighborhood is a district rich in threshold elements in the metropolitan city of Istanbul, and that it exhibits an exemplary spatial syntax for the perception of "place" by forming a local cross-section in the metropolitan city Istanbul.
Postage stamps, as a visual document of history, are an object of mass communication. They are the conveyor of important historical events, people's way of life, cultural values of a country and national identity. They are a propaganda tool shaped by the ideological approach of states. Thus, they are the reflection of the state identity that is wanted to be created. They ensure the rapid dissemination of information and issues of the period within the society. It is possible to trace historical change in time on postage stamps printed about subjects such as art, literature, important persons and historical events, natural beauties of the country, architectural structures. In 1862, 23 years after the postal organization was established, the first stamps were produced in the Ottoman Empire and architectural structures began to be the subject of postage stamps. Architectural buildings, which were built as a reflection of the state policy adopted by the Ottoman Empire, were documented through postage stamps. Postage stamps, which did not lose their importance as a communication medium in the Republican Period, continued to be a propaganda tool about architectural buildings. The buildings that are the subject of postage stamps provide to trace of the architectural discourse that the state wants to highlight. Postage stamps have been ignored in architectural researches about history and have not received the necessary attention. Today, the archives of postage stamps still wait as a field of study to reach the information looking from the present to the past when the letter was the primary medium of communication. Based on the postage stamp archives, it is aimed to compare the architectural images that were intended to be produced in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey, and to reproduce the architectural discourses of the state. In this direction, within the scope of the study, postage stamps on architectural buildings printed in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey were examined comparatively. The architectural discourse and its change were evaluated through the stylistic features of the buildings that were repeatedly highlighted on postage stamps
In this paper, the life and works of the architect Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk, who is a member of the Association of Ottoman Engineer and Architect, were examined, although it was very important for the period, it was not fully emphasized. From the II. Constitutional Monarchy to the Republic, being included Architect Nihad in the associations established by Ottoman engineers and architects is an important indicator of the "freedom" environment in which he grew up and it influence on him.
Architect Nihad, who grew up in the Evkaf ecole of Architect Kemaleddin, became an important representative of the National Architecture style from the Ottoman to the Republic. Koç University Mehmet Nihat Nigizberk Collection of Architectural Drawings and Photographs, which was opened in June 2019, created a new resource to illuminate the gaps of Architect Nihad's work. The article "Architect Nihad Nigizberk, 1878-1945" published by Vasfi Egeli in Arkitekt magazine after the death of Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk is the earliest text written about him.
"Mehmet Nihat Nigisberk's Contributions, Foundations Administration and Architect Kemalettin" written by Ali Cengizkan at the Symposium of Architect Kemalettin and His Period, Architecture / Social Life / Politics organized by TMMOB Chamber of Architects in 2007, provided the most comprehensive information about Nihad Nigizberk, However the life of Nigizberk is examined through Architect Kemaleddin. In this study, it is aimed to increase the knowledge on Architect Nihad by adding new information and documents.
Books by Mekselina Gececi
shot as a continuation in the history of cinema is the Sherlock Holmes
films shot shortly after the invention of cinema. This series, which
started with Sherlock Holmes I (Viggo Larsen, 1908), continued until
1910 with a total of 6 films produced by the same director. “Making a
sequel wasn’t something Hollywood used very often until the late 1970s.
With the development of popular culture, the number of applications for
sequels has gradually increased; With the Oscar for The Godfather, a
1972 Francis Ford Coppola movie, the sequel of this movie was also
encouraged” (Göral, 2003, p.105-106). There are many elements in the
concept of visual continuity and they are all interrelated. In films or
film series that are described as sequels, establishing a visual
integrity relationship between films comes to the fore. The concept of
the sequel appears in two ways. Sometimes, while the ideas are scripted,
the story is divided into more than one part. Sometimes the story is
planned as a single movie, and after a certain time, it can be realized
as a follow-up movie/films for different reasons. In both systems of
expression, it is necessary to seek harmony between all elements of
visual design. This research aims to include analyzes that examine
sequels, serials and trilogy on the axis of cinematography and
narration.
Urban and architecture are two main spatial elements that affect and transform each other. While urban settlement consists of urban landscape like dimensions of building blocks, street patterns, the architectural form includes the horizontal and vertical components of the buildings, the height of the building, the width of the facade, the windows, the doors, the building indentations and protrusions, etc. formed by features. At this point, architectural thresholds are a building intersection, as well as creating transition spaces that we come and go through frequently during the day; facade elements, building entrances are the details that enrich the architecture.
The uniform construction seen in today's cities is far from reflecting the historical and cultural values of the city with abstract architectural designs from the environment and makes it difficult to establish a personal connection with the place. This situation causes
urban memory to be damaged day by day and alienates those living in Istanbul from the city. Thresholds; as the building entrance and the details of the entrance, it stands out as the details that bring awareness to the city and architecture, increasing the perception of place. In this paper, the space-place dialectic is handled as "being a place" through threshold elements. Traditional architectural details such as a bay window, overhanging, arcaded, fringed, wooden framed wall in Yeldeğirmeni-Rasimpaşa District, which are now being forgotten, are examined as "threshold-forming elements". Threshold elements in Yeldeğirmeni- Rasimpaşa Neighborhood; entrance and physical recesses and protrusions and details of the entrance (door-window, wall, stairs, pavement, landscaping equipment, bay window, eaves, arcade, column-column, etc.), courtyard (Atrium), passage areas, building interfaces (pavement cafes and eating and drinking places) are discussed in 3 sections.The findings obtained from the fieldwork were processed on the 1/1000 Implementation Development Plan and 1/15000 scale Master Development Plans obtained from Kadıköy Municipality. In the study, which is based on fieldwork and literature research, it is concluded that Yeldeğirmeni Rasimpaşa neighborhood is a district rich in threshold elements in the metropolitan city of Istanbul, and that it exhibits an exemplary spatial syntax for the perception of "place" by forming a local cross-section in the metropolitan city Istanbul.
Postage stamps, as a visual document of history, are an object of mass communication. They are the conveyor of important historical events, people's way of life, cultural values of a country and national identity. They are a propaganda tool shaped by the ideological approach of states. Thus, they are the reflection of the state identity that is wanted to be created. They ensure the rapid dissemination of information and issues of the period within the society. It is possible to trace historical change in time on postage stamps printed about subjects such as art, literature, important persons and historical events, natural beauties of the country, architectural structures. In 1862, 23 years after the postal organization was established, the first stamps were produced in the Ottoman Empire and architectural structures began to be the subject of postage stamps. Architectural buildings, which were built as a reflection of the state policy adopted by the Ottoman Empire, were documented through postage stamps. Postage stamps, which did not lose their importance as a communication medium in the Republican Period, continued to be a propaganda tool about architectural buildings. The buildings that are the subject of postage stamps provide to trace of the architectural discourse that the state wants to highlight. Postage stamps have been ignored in architectural researches about history and have not received the necessary attention. Today, the archives of postage stamps still wait as a field of study to reach the information looking from the present to the past when the letter was the primary medium of communication. Based on the postage stamp archives, it is aimed to compare the architectural images that were intended to be produced in the last period of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey, and to reproduce the architectural discourses of the state. In this direction, within the scope of the study, postage stamps on architectural buildings printed in the last years of the Ottoman Empire and the first years of the Republic of Turkey were examined comparatively. The architectural discourse and its change were evaluated through the stylistic features of the buildings that were repeatedly highlighted on postage stamps
In this paper, the life and works of the architect Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk, who is a member of the Association of Ottoman Engineer and Architect, were examined, although it was very important for the period, it was not fully emphasized. From the II. Constitutional Monarchy to the Republic, being included Architect Nihad in the associations established by Ottoman engineers and architects is an important indicator of the "freedom" environment in which he grew up and it influence on him.
Architect Nihad, who grew up in the Evkaf ecole of Architect Kemaleddin, became an important representative of the National Architecture style from the Ottoman to the Republic. Koç University Mehmet Nihat Nigizberk Collection of Architectural Drawings and Photographs, which was opened in June 2019, created a new resource to illuminate the gaps of Architect Nihad's work. The article "Architect Nihad Nigizberk, 1878-1945" published by Vasfi Egeli in Arkitekt magazine after the death of Mehmed Nihad Nigizberk is the earliest text written about him.
"Mehmet Nihat Nigisberk's Contributions, Foundations Administration and Architect Kemalettin" written by Ali Cengizkan at the Symposium of Architect Kemalettin and His Period, Architecture / Social Life / Politics organized by TMMOB Chamber of Architects in 2007, provided the most comprehensive information about Nihad Nigizberk, However the life of Nigizberk is examined through Architect Kemaleddin. In this study, it is aimed to increase the knowledge on Architect Nihad by adding new information and documents.
shot as a continuation in the history of cinema is the Sherlock Holmes
films shot shortly after the invention of cinema. This series, which
started with Sherlock Holmes I (Viggo Larsen, 1908), continued until
1910 with a total of 6 films produced by the same director. “Making a
sequel wasn’t something Hollywood used very often until the late 1970s.
With the development of popular culture, the number of applications for
sequels has gradually increased; With the Oscar for The Godfather, a
1972 Francis Ford Coppola movie, the sequel of this movie was also
encouraged” (Göral, 2003, p.105-106). There are many elements in the
concept of visual continuity and they are all interrelated. In films or
film series that are described as sequels, establishing a visual
integrity relationship between films comes to the fore. The concept of
the sequel appears in two ways. Sometimes, while the ideas are scripted,
the story is divided into more than one part. Sometimes the story is
planned as a single movie, and after a certain time, it can be realized
as a follow-up movie/films for different reasons. In both systems of
expression, it is necessary to seek harmony between all elements of
visual design. This research aims to include analyzes that examine
sequels, serials and trilogy on the axis of cinematography and
narration.