TR Dizin İndeksli Yayınlar Koleksiyonu / TR Dizin Indexed Publications Collection
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Article Citation - Scopus: 1Contradicting Parochial Realms in Neighborhood Parks: How the Park Attributes Shape Women’s Park Use(Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture, 2023-06-01) Kaştaş Uzun, İpek; Şenol, F.; Kaştaş-Uzun, İpekNeighborhood parks are significant green public spaces located in close social and geographical proximity to homes to maintain individual and public health. However, some people do not use the nearest parks, but those with other socio-spatial attributes that make them feel more “familiar”. This study argues that with their facilities, amenities and design, and the surrounding land uses, neighborhood parks do not only accommodate, but also define, regulate, and originate social relations among users. Thus, the design and planning of urban public spaces play a role in the emergence and maintenance of supportive and conflictual relations that lead to familiarity. The study answers two research questions: How do the park attributes shape and mediate the interpersonal relations among the park users? How do gender differences influence the parochial realms in parks? Data was collected through field observations and in-depth interviews with 33 female users of two neighborhood parks in a populous district of Izmir (Turkey). Results state that women’s park visits were related to their gendered roles and responsibilities. Yet their responses point to challenges emerging from physical and social attributes of parks and park surroundings which lead to negotiations to protect their individual or group’s privacy (parochial realm) in neighborhood parks. Mainly, perceived threats to women’s parochial realm are men unaccompanied by child(ren), and exposure to the male gaze. The study highlights the importance of investigating these attributes of neighborhood parks for developing research and public policies to improve women’s presence and perceived safety in public settings. © 2023, Istanbul Teknik Universitesi, Faculty of Architecture. All rights reserved.Article Enriching Learning Experience Through Multidisciplinary Design Education: Structure Proposal for a Landscape Design Course(2020-07-01) Kaştaş Uzun, İpek; Uzun, Ipek KastasDesign related fields are quite intricate and it is hard to define strict boundaries in between thesedisciplines which cause the necessity of collaboration. Especially during professional careers, designerswork in multidisciplinary environments where they need to develop responses collaboratively. However,undergraduate design education is being criticized for missing to fulfill this need. The aim of this paperis to discuss the role and benefits of multidisciplinary design education with the example of the coursenamed “An Introduction to Contemporary Architectural Landscaping”. As the methodology of thepaper, through deconstruction of the 3 parted course structure and analysis of student works, this paperanalyses the role of a multidisciplinary education on students’ learning experiences. First two parts ofthe course focus on technical aspects of landscape architecture discipline, and cultural, physiologicaland psychological effects of landscape projects for users. Last part of the course focus on creating aplatform for students to work in collaboration with other students to gain practical experience in designfield where they develop a landscape architecture project on sites from their near environments. Thereare three main findings of the study. Firstly, inclusion of students from different disciplines in the samecourse increases the success rate via cross-learning experiences. Secondly, during design education,having the chance of participation to courses from different disciplines help to broaden students’perspectives on problem solving during design phase. Finally, projects in environments that studentsexperience in their everyday life increase their success rates. Results of the study that is based on theoutcomes of the course that is conducted with the students of two different design departments indicatethat this course structure and projects that are designed can be a guide for other design courses to developa multidisciplinary course structure to include students from different disciplines, enrich their learningexperiences and success after graduation.Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Recent Nation Gardens and Historical Development of Public Green Spaces in Turkey(Istanbul Univ, Research Inst Turkology, Dept Art History, 2020-07-31) Kaştaş Uzun, İpek; Senol, Fatma; Uzun, Ipek KaştaşFocusing on contemporary Turkey's nation gardens and the state and governmental policies to build them, this study investigated the development processes and design features of these public green spaces with respect to those from past eras of Turkey (extending to Ottoman and pre-Ottoman history) and the development of public green spaces as the state's symbolic and spatial tools. The study relied on secondary sources about public green spaces from past eras of Turkey and also on the review of online news about nation gardens initiated after President Erdogan's announcement in May 2018. Our findings suggested that public green spaces in Turkey have played an important role in displaying the state's power nationally and internationally as well as to transfer the state's ideologies to people and thus, to build new identities of 'citizens.' Interestingly, in sharing these intentions of past policies for public green spaces, the recent introduction of nation gardens differs from those in the 19th and 20th century. Without any emphasis on modernization goals in the western-style, recent official talks described nation gardens as a way to raise Turkey and the government's reputation both nationally and internationally, while also referring to past eras but with other characteristics as the source of traditions extending to today.