63-062 Studienprojekt - Geländepraktikum: Istanbul

Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Eray Cayli

Veranstaltungsart: Geländepraktikum

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: 1 | 20

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Die Vergabe der Plätze ist bereits am Ende des Sommersemesters 2023 erfolgt

Kommentare/ Inhalte:
As a former imperial capital and contemporary Turkey's foremost city for business and culture located on tectonically active ground, Istanbul is at the heart of some of the world's most urgent urban issues such as disaster preparedness, housing provision, infrastructural development, heritage and tourism, and changing labour/class structures. This course explores how, by whom, and for whom these issues are understood and addressed spatially. Each weekly topic will focus on one of the key issues mentioned above through assigned readings on context-specific implications as well as theoretically and conceptually charged texts that will help us situate Istanbul in a global context. Weekly discussions based on these readings will familiarize students critically and analytically with the ways in which Istanbul's geographies are shaped by contested approaches to safety, security, risk, value, mobility, identity, and publicness.

Lernziel:
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
1. List and explain theories and histories relevant to Istanbul's contemporary geographies;
2. Outline and critically evaluate in written and oral form how and why these histories and theories are relevant to social, cultural, and political developments in Istanbul;
3. Critically engage with the role of materialities and spatialities in constituting the developments mentioned above, including bodies, infrastructures, and various kinds of urban space;
4. Familiarise with various and often conflicting approaches to the questions of who gets to have a say on and who is affected by recent, ongoing, and/or planned material-spatial transformations in/of Istanbul;
5. Apply the above to the critical analysis of specific cases from the recent past or the present.