Architecture (DR) | |||||
PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 |
Course Code: | MIM6004 | ||||
Course Name: | Architecture and Decolonial Thinking | ||||
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Fall Spring |
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Course Credits: |
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Language of instruction: | Turkish | ||||
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Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
Type of course: | Departmental Elective | ||||
Course Level: |
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Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||
Course Coordinator: | Dr. Öğr. Üy. ZEHRA TONBUL | ||||
Course Lecturer(s): | ZEHRA TONBUL | ||||
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Course Objectives: | To evaluate and research architectural thought independently of Western-centered perspectives; to incorporate architectural approaches from different cultures and geographies into the practice of historical and contemporary architectural thought. |
Course Content: | Readings of postcolonial and decolonial theory; evaluating them in relation to architectural thought; researching architectural approaches from different cultures and geographies. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To produce architectural thought with the use of interdisciplinary approaches 2) To produce global and decolonial architectural approaches 3) To be able to produce academic research through use of appropriate vocabulary. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | |
2) | Western centered perspectives in Architectural Historiography | |
3) | From Colonial Cabinets to Museums | |
4) | Theories on Colonialism, Postcolonialism | |
5) | Decolonial Thinking in Architecture | |
6) | Non-Western Architecture in Architectural Theory | |
7) | Architectural Criticism and Decolonialism | |
8) | Architecture in Non-Western Contexts | |
9) | Architecture in Non-Western Contexts | |
10) | Selection of Research Topic | |
11) | Literature Research | |
12) | Work on Articles and Bibliography | |
13) | Seminer 1 | |
14) | Seminer 2 |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Alessandro Petti, Sandi Hilal, Eyal Weizman, Architecture After Revolution, Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency (Program), MIT Press, 2013. Aníbal Arregui, Gesa Mackenthun, Stephanie Wodianka, DEcolonial Heritage: Natures, Cultures, and the Asymmetries of Memory, Waxmann Verlag, 2018. |
References: | Pauline Bachmann, Melanie Klein, Tomoko Mamine, Georg Vasold, Art/histories in Transcultural Dynamics: Narratives, Concepts, and Practices at Work, 20th and 21st Centuries,Wilhelm Fink, Brill Deutschland, 2017 Zehra Tonbul, “Museum as Textum: Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence,” with Van Synghel, Koen, in E. Troelenberg, M. Savonia (eds.) Images of the Art Museum: Connecting Gaze and Discourse in the History of Museology, Berlin, Boston. Walter de Gruyter, Series: Contact Zones (Book 3), 2017. Zehra Tonbul, “From Strzygowski’s ‘Orient oder Rom’ to Hans Sedlmayr’s ‘Closest Orient’,” Journal of Art Historiography, December 2020. |
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Program Outcomes | |||||
1) To be able to comprehend and critically analyse contemporary changes in architectural practice | |||||
2) To gain the ability to comprehend and interpret the integration of architecture and engineering | |||||
3) To understand the dialogue between architecture and social sciences and conduct studies utilizing the potentials of this dialogue | |||||
4) To acknowledge the theoretical dimension of architecture as an inherent component of the practice | |||||
5) To develop an ability to accommodate architectural knowledge based on personal academic interests |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | To be able to comprehend and critically analyse contemporary changes in architectural practice | |
2) | To gain the ability to comprehend and interpret the integration of architecture and engineering | |
3) | To understand the dialogue between architecture and social sciences and conduct studies utilizing the potentials of this dialogue | |
4) | To acknowledge the theoretical dimension of architecture as an inherent component of the practice | |
5) | To develop an ability to accommodate architectural knowledge based on personal academic interests |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 70 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 30 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 70 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 126 |
Presentations / Seminar | 3 | 12 |
Final | 3 | 24 |
Total Workload | 204 |