INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

General Information about the Course

Course Code: ICM105
Course Title: Istanbul - Getting to Know the Metropolis-I: Synchronous Sections
Course Semester: 1. Semester / Fall
Course Credits:
Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
2 2 3 3
Language of instruction: TR
Prerequisite of the course: No
Type of course: Necessary
Level of course:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor Aslı Kıyak İngin, Research Assistant Damla İnci

Purpose and content of the course

Course Objectives: Cities have a dynamic structure in which various practices, relations, productions and movements are part of daily life beyond the physical and structural elements creating them. It is necessary to understand and experience the city with its daily practices, social, cultural and economic characteristics, which are indispensable parts. Throughout history and today, Istanbul has been a city that produces and is intertwined with production. Within the scope of the course, it is aimed to look closely and explore the production spaces in various scales and characteristics located in the city center and its periphery. Istanbul accomodates manifold production practices - different scales and spaces, from artisanal production to workshop scale and mass production. The design practice unique to Istanbul also requires being closely related to the production areas and modes of production in the city. Instead of a didactic and ready-made information and learning approach, it is aimed to keep a record of individual discoveries with many tools, mediums and methods during the excursions to the different production spaces in the city at the semester. After each excursion, joint discussions and evaluations are made on the recorded and produced knowledge. Every spatial exploration also involves each student's discovery of himself, his own interest and approach. Seeing and experiencing various scales, from the city to the workshop and even to the material, together in the excursions made allow for multidimensional thinking, perception and conceptualization.

For practices such as architecture, interior architecture and other design disciplines for making, producing, material, city, space and thinking, getting down to the basis of practice, encountering the states and sections in the city one-on-one, touching and collecting materials, examining different production forms, spaces, products, listening to sounds, to witness the city closely by following the smells, textures and chatting with a tradesman, to produce our own experiences and knowledge; and to take this encounter as early as possible, to his student years.
Course Objective: • To recognize the multi-layered structure of the city of Istanbul
• To read the multi-layered structure of Istanbul from the perspective of production spaces and practices and within the context
• To get to know the diverse and different production spaces in Istanbul's city center and its periphery
• To be able to compare different production spaces and scales with each other
• To understand, explore and experience the city, and therefore its indispensable part of daily practices and life, without separating it from its cityscapes and architectural structures
• To grasp the production spaces both in physical and daily life, with their social, economic and cultural dimensions and production practices
• To observe and experience these places in very different scales and between scales such as cities, streets, inns, bazaars, shops, workshops, production and materials
• To gain the ability to quickly read and interpret a city or place they first encounter
• To read the city on foot through synchronic sections, meeting with the actors of the production space, understanding the city, production spaces and production in different depths by examining the materials and production processes
• To be able to read the city on the map
• To be able to transfer the experienced routes on the map with different methods
• To visualize and relate the multidimensional knowledge and experience about the visited production spaces and their forms by inscriptive and visual mapping
• To comprehense a city physically, sensorially and sensually
• To record urban observation and experience with different means of representation, producing situated knowledge
• To explore the city with different means of expression
• To be able to do multiple readings in the city
• To find and produce visible and legible information that is original and implicit in the context of the city
• To be able to pursue one's own interest and curiosity, to create one's own experience
• To create a chart, a catalogue through collecting samples related the production space
Mode of Delivery: Face to face

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge (Described as Theoritical and/or Factual Knowledge.)
  1) Students get knowledge about important or typical buildings/built environments of Istanbul in terms of urban form and architectural type.
  2) Students comprehend the characteristics of historical production spaces, production relations and social relations.
  3) Students know the production spaces in various scales and aspects located in the city center and its periphery.
  4) Students comprehend the structure, elements, actors and functional role of Istanbul as a producing city.
Skills (Describe as Cognitive and/or Practical Skills.)
  1) The student can express his/her experience of city in manifold scales with various representation techniques.
  2) The student can perform individual and collective studies in a group work.
  3) The student can distinguish differences and similarities between various scales and modes of production.
  4) The student can acquires reading a map and having conceptual mapping skills.
  5) The student gain the ability to understand, experience and interpret the city corporeally, through all senses and movements, and translate them into inscriptive and visual knowledge.
  6) The student gain the ability to develop and express their own attitudes and positions.
  7) The student are able to meet, have a dialogue and observe many actors in production spaces in the city.
Competences (Described as "Ability of the learner to apply knowledge and skills autonomously with responsibility", "Learning to learn"," Communication and social" and "Field specific" competences.)
  1) The student gain the competence to find a focus topic in line with their own interests and skills and to follow and develop it in all different areas.
  2) The student have the ability to discover, follow and develop their own interests and skills.
  3) The student have the ability to understand the dynamics of city, architecture, production and materials, both in relational and inter-scale.
  4) The student are able to think, perceive and conceptualize multidimensionally by seeing and experiencing different scales together.
  5) The student can understand the production spaces and production in Istanbul in relation to the context and daily practices.
  6) The student can compare different production spaces and scales with each other, gain the competence to distinguish their differences and similarities.

Course Topics

Week Subject
Related Preparation Pekiştirme
1) Introduction and a visit to an exhibition: Kale Design and Art Center
2) Excursion to the Copying Centers and Stationers' in Beşiktaş
3) Excursion to the Printing Centers' Site II in Topkapı
4) Studio Time for Collective Workshop
5) Excursion to the streets in the coastal side of Perşembe Pazarı, Kurşunlu Han & Fatih Bedesteni
6) Excursion to the landside of Perşembe Pazarı, Arap Cami & Its Neigbourhood
7) Excursion to the Ticaret Han, Hırdavatçılar Çarşısı and Selanik Pasajı in Perşembe Pazarı
8) Studio Time for Collective Workshop
9) Midterm Review
10) Excursion to the IMC and Interview with the IMC People
11) Studio Time for Collective Workshop
12) Studio Time
13) Excursion to Hans, Streets, Material Suppliers, Lampshade & Wire Ateliers, Okçumusa Street and Tea Vendors in Şişhane
14) Studio Time to Review the Digital Submissions
15) Presentation: "Made in Şişhane" & Film Screening, Sharing the Final Requirements List and General Review of the Semester
16) Final Review
References: İstanbul Ticaret Odası. Perşembe Pazarı: Bir tarih çalışması.
Kıyak İngin, Aslı, Phillips, Karin Beate, Mehta, Geeta et al. (2011). Made in Şişhane: On Istanbul, Small-scale Production and Design. İstanbul: Tetra İletişim.
Kızılkayak, G. (2009). İmeceden İMÇ'ye. İstanbul Manifaturacılar ve Kumaşçılar Çarşısı Yayınları. 2.
Belge, Murat (2000) İstanbul Gezi Rehberi [Istanbul Tour Guide]. İstanbul: History Foundation Publishing.
PERPA Kooperatifi. (2018). Çağdaş Ticarete Atılan İmza. İstanbul: Perpa Ticaret Merkezi.
PERPA Kooperatifi. (2018). Signature on Contemporary Trade. İstanbul: Perpa Ticaret Merkezi.
Tuna, Ö. (2021). Geriye Dönüp Baktığımda.
Film: (2003). Neredesin Firuze?
Url-1: https://manifold.press/ticaret-han-da-ruyada-olmak
Url-2: https://www.mimarizm.com/makale/neredesin-firuze_113482
Url-3: http://madeinsishane.net/

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Program Outcomes

Course Teaching, Learning Methods

Q & A
Case Problem Solving/ Drama- Role/ Case Management
Laboratory
Quantitative Problem Solving
Fieldwork
Group Study / Assignment
Individual Assignment
WEB-based Learning
Internship
Practice in Field
Project Preparation
Report Writing
Seminar
Supervision
Social Activity
Occupational Activity
Occupational Trip
Application (Modelling, Design, Model, Simulation, Experiment et.)
Reading
Thesis Preparation
Field Study
Student Club and Council Activities
Other
Logbook
Interview and Oral Conversation
Research
Watching a movie
Bibliography preparation
Oral, inscribed and visual knowledge production
Taking photographs
Sketching
Mapping and marking
Reading maps
Copying textures
Creating a library of materials
Presentation

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance % 0
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Practice Exam % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments % 0
Presentation % 0
Project % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Field Study % 0
Article Critical % 0
Article Writing % 0
Module Group Study % 0
Brainstorming % 0
Role Playing + Dramatizing % 0
Out of Class Study % 0
Preliminary Work, Reinforcement % 0
Application Repetition etc. % 0
Homework (reading, writing, watching movies, etc.) % 0
Project Preparation + Presentation % 0
Report Preparation + Presentation % 0
Presentation / Seminar Preparation + Presenting % 0
Oral examination % 0
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 60
Report Submission % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Kanaat Notu % 0
Committee % 0
Yazma Ödev Dosyası % 0
Portfolio % 0
Take-Home Exam % 0
Logbook % 0
Discussion % 0
Participation 15 % 15
total % 115
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
total % 115

Calculation of Workload and ECTS Credits

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 56
Laboratory
Application
Practice Exam
Special Course Internship (Work Placement)
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class
Article Critical
Article Writing
Module Group Study
Brainstorming
Role Playing + Dramatizing
Out-of-Class Study (Pre-study, Reinforcement, Practice Review, etc.)
Homework (reading, writing, watching movies, etc.)
Project Preparation + Presentation
Report Preparation + Presentation
Presentation / Seminar Preparation + Presenting
Oral examination
Preparing for Midterm Exams 4 25
MIDTERM EXAM (Visa) 1 5
Preparing for the General Exam 4 29
GENERAL EXAM (Final) 1 5
Participation
Discussion
Portfolio
Take-Home Exam
Logbook
Total Workload 120
ECTS (30 saat = 1 AKTS ) 4