Course Code & Number
ARCH 581
Course Title
Spatial Products, Practices and Politics [in Ankara]
Level
MS
Credit Hours/ ECTS Credits
(3+0+0) 3 TEDU Credits, 7.5 ECTS Credits
Pre-requisite / Co-requisite::
Pre-requisites: NONE
Co-requisites: NONE
Catalog Description
Spatial Products, Practices and Politics are three species of spaces that are distinct yet intimately entwined. Spatial Products refers to manufactured entities, such as buildings, public spaces, monuments, gardens and transport infrastructures as well as the vehicles set upon them. Spatial Practices describes an unwieldly cohort of professionals and amateurs whose work involves the imagining, configuring or destruction of spaces. Spatial Politics underlines the ways in which spaces (often referred to as ‘terriotories’ – occupied, contested, or otherwise) are an embedded instrument of political imagination or discourse. The course focuses on the Capital city Ankara.