To investigate the theoretical background, case studies and current debate on community architecture and planning processes which have become an integral element of the programming, design and implementation stages of both new-built and renewal/regeneration projects.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Instructor(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Ayşe Gökşin
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Monday, 09:00-12:00
Office Hour(s)
Assist. Prof. Dr. Z. Ayşe Gökşin, 2-C-05, Thursday, 10:00-12:00
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Discussing the underlying concepts, historical development, principles, methods and techniques of community architecture and planning and current issues via reading assignments (read before the class by the students) and presentations supported by visual materials (by the lecturer) in the classroom.
Discussing the adopted participation principles, method and techniques and the success and limitations of implementation via selected case studies researched and presented by the students in the classroom.
Principle Sources
Arnstein, S. 1969. “A ladder of citizen participation”, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 35, 4, 216-44.
Davidoff, P. 1965. “Advocacy and pluralism in planning”, Journal of the American Institute of Planners, 31, 4, 331-338.
Lefebvre, H. 2016. Şehir Hakkı. Çev. I. Ergüden. İstanbul: Sel Yayıncılık.
Marcuse, P., Mayer, M. & Brenner, N. 2014. Kar İçin Değil Halk İçin: Eleştirel Kent Teorisi ve Kent Hakkı. Çev.: A. Y. Öz & K. Kelebekoğlu. İstanbul: Sel Yayıncılık.
Rosa, M. & Wieland, U. (Eds.) 2013. Handmade Urbanism: From community initiatives to participatory models. Jovis.
Sanoff, H. 2000. Community Participation Methods in Design and Planning. USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Wates, N. 2014. The Community Planning Handbook: How People Can Shape Their Cities, Towns and Villages in Any Part of the World. 2nd Edition. London: Routledge.
Wates N. ve Knevitt C. 1987. Community Architecture. London: Penguin Books Ltd.
Other Sources
Jenkins, P. & Forsyth L. (Eds.) 2010. Architecture, Participation and Society. Oxon: Routledge .
Sanoff, H. 2010. Democratic Design: Participation Case Studies in Urban and Small Town Environments. VDM Verlag.
Styles, B.J. 1971.“Public participation - a reconsideration”, Journal of the Town Planning Institute, 57, 4, 163-167.
Walters, D. 2007. Designing Community- Charettes, Masterplans and Form-based Codes. USA: Architectural Press.
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Informing the students about the aim and the scope of the course and the reading list
Presentation
2. Week
Conceptual framework for community architecture and planning: the concepts of participation, representative-participatory democracy, community development, capacity building.
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
3. Week
Emergence of community architecture and planning: 1960s-1970s
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
4. Week
Development of community architecture and planning: 1980s -1990s
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
5. Week
Participation in contemporary architecture and urban design: 2000s
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
6. Week
Contemporary issues on community arcihtecture and planning: the concept of 'the right to the city'
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
7. Week
Methods and techniques in community architecture and planning
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
8. Week
Community architecture and planning in Turkey: historical development and current issues
Discussion based on presentation with visual material and reading assignments
9. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
10. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
11. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
12. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
13. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
14. Week
Presentation of mid-term assignments and discussion about the principles, methods and techniques of participation adopted and their success and limitation via the presented case studies.
Student presentations and discussion
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
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Weight(%)
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the fields of architectural theory, design methods and design philosophy. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-2
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the fields of social and cultural geography and on the concepts of space and time. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-3
Having knowledge to produce critical and original work in the field of built environment and human/society relationship within the framework of human-environment-behaviour. (KNOWLEDGE)
PO-4
Ability to direct the experience gained from architectural design and other knowledge areas to new fields and generate strategies. (ABILITY)
PO-5
Ability to conduct research, examination, interpretation; to use adequate techniques and produce original results in the field of academic knowledge and design process. (ABILITY)
PO-6
Ability to use the theoretical and practical knowledge of architectural design referring to undergraduate competence. (ABILITY)
PO-7
Competence for analyzing and interpreting architectural products within the framework of architectural concepts. (COMPETENCE)
PO-8
Competence for relating architectural design, architectural theory and building construction with social sciences and humanities such as psychology, philosophy and political economy. (COMPETENCE)
PO-9
Competence for presenting a work - made individually or in a group- systematically, in a foreign language, using the required computer programs, verbal, written and visual. (COMPETENCE)
PO-10
To gain knowledge and understand the socio-economical and spatial components and processes which are both the subjects and the outcomes of an urban design project.
PO-11
To gain knowledge and critical awareness about the relations in between urban design and the other disciplines like architecture, urban planning, economy and sociology; and the opportunuties and threats that will arise by these relations.
PO-12
Ability to realize an urban design project or a research on urban design in a multidisciplinary process, using both the theoretical and practical knowledge infrastructure, developing new methods and techniques.
PO-13
Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-14
To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-15
To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-16
To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-17
To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
PO-18
Understanding time management and control, cost planning and control, risk management, approaches, models and techniques to improve organizational / management effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-19
Understanding classic and contemporary management theories and human relationship in management to improve management effectiveness in beginning, design and construction processes of a project.
PO-20
Ability to direct the experience gained from construction management and technology to new fields and ability to generate strategies.
PO-21
Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to construction management and technology to the beginning of project, design and construction processes.
PO-22
Competence for analyzing, interpreting and establish relations within the framework of construction management and technology with the project and construction process.
PO-23
Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of construction management and technology, and generating original solutions.
PO-24
Understanding the basic principles of structural systems, development and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-25
Understanding managerial tasks of architect and approaches, models and techniques to improve effectiveness in project and construction management.
PO-26
Understanding the relationship between sub systems which forms entire building and building technology, to ensure effective and correct use of a complex building from the beginning of design process to the usage, and ability to be able to criticize them.
PO-27
Ability to transfer and apply knowledge according to architectural engineering, to the beginning of design and construction processes of a project.
PO-28
Competence for producing a comprehensive architectural project from the beginning of schematic design to detailed system development phase (structural and environmental systems, safety and fire protection, partition systems, building envelop, building service systems).
PO-29
Competence for making strategic decisions of architectural design projects, in the field of architectural engineering, and generating original solutions.
PO-30
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about two different scale monument and site conservation.
PO-31
To have advenced level knowledge and realization about basic issues of conservation which are restoration theories, international modern conservation principles, national and international legal and organizational regulations and recording cultural heritage.
PO-32
To have advenced level of knowledge and realization about design principles of new addition to the historic building and infill building in historic settlement, measured drawing, restitution and restoration projects of historic building.
PO-33
To be informed and own critical awareness for utilizing from national and international examples of conservation of historical sites that are rapidly disappearing, preparing analytical surveys, preparing morphology and typology study and evaluating the data reunited from these studies.
PO-34
To gain cognitive and practice knowledge for proficiency in practice about monument and site conservation.
PO-35
To apply and integrate the knowledge, conception and problem solving ability about monument and site conservation with the knowledges from architectural history, city planning, urban design, archeology, civil engineering and such discipline areas and to apply within interdisciplinary, multi-disciplinary and upper-disciplinary contexts.
PO-36
To develop new data and methods on monument and site conservation and to have ability for merging the gained knowledge with the knowledge from the other discipline areas.
PO-37
To have ability for performing research, survey and critical evaluation on academic knowledge and design process, using approprate technics and producing unique outcomes.
PO-38
To have ability for carrying out individual study on monument and site conservation.
PO-39
To have ability for making a decision in analysis stage about monument and site conservation area, to lead projects/academic studies, to produce a work in a group by taking individual responsibility and to have ability for leading and changing complex processes.
PO-40
To have ability for taking strategic decisions about monument and site conservation projects and concerning ethic values while producing unique solutions.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To acquire the ability to critically compare and evaluate interpretations of generic principles, methods and techniques and the limitations of community architecture and planning in different parts of the world.
LO-2
To gain comprehensive knowledge and understanding about the historical development of and current issues in community architecture and planning process in Turkey.
LO-3
To acquire the ability to compile and assess written and visual materials on selected community architecture and planning case studies.
LO-4
To acquire the ability to critically compare and contrast the processes and success and limitations of participatory architecture and planning approaches with non-participatory approaches.
LO-5
To gain in-depth knowledge about the opportunities presented by participatory planning and design methods and techniques in community architecture and planning to identify and meet users’ needs.
