In april, eight pieces from our project "Old Cities, New Futures…" (Bieling / Yorganci 2022) will be exhibited at Scroop Terrace Gallery, Cambridge.
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The project deals with the matter of „spectrality”, which can be considered as a socio-cultural phenomenon. Examining ghosts as metaphors of urban subjectivity, memory and history (Kim 2015), it focuses on architecture’s potential by exploring the intersection between image, narration, im/materiality, spectrality, histories, trauma and futures.
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Key question: How can architects, designers and urban planners acknowledge various phantom effects and how does „spectrality“ and the uncanny transform our ways to materialize futures? (c.f. Wolfreys 2001), and how does this address issues of memory and responsibility in urban development?
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Bieling, Tom / Yorganci, Emine (2022): “Old City, new Futures – Epistemic Imagery in Architectural Research”, in: “Spectres of Time in Space: Tracing Phantom Temporalities with Architectural Methodologies” (Special Issue), University of Cambridge / Department of Architecture. (t.b.a.)
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Heider, Fritz (1921): Ding und Medium. Berlin: Kadmos.
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Kim, Ji Nang (2015): Transnational Spectrality: History, Trauma and Phantom Bodies in Postcolonial Asian Art and Literature. Texas: A&M.
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Wolfreys, Julian (2001): Victorian Hauntings: Spectrality, Gothic, the Uncanny and Literature. Red Globe.
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(Yorganci/Bieling 2022)