IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF DYRADS
DRYADLARIN İZİNDEN (appl. in 2022)
Main Goal
This work examines a forest area, assessing its sensorial and affective significance and developing repair strategies, particularly with a consideration of damage occurred in different forest areas on the Aegean coast during the summers of 2020 and 2021. It recognizes a forest land as a being including all living organisms, carnivores and herbivores as well as human beings and focuses on the assemblages emerging as a result of natural and social encounters. The work creates an experiential setting through which participants are invited to sense the consequences of these encounters, to establish bonds with them and to make sense through collective vocalization.
The content is composed of five parts:
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Reformulation of the meaning of a forest,
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Quiet expedition to search the meaning of a forest by using senses and making reflections to self-intervention,
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Exploration of a visual representation of a forest,
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Searching for the timbre of a forest,
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Redefining the possible interventions to repair a damaged forest.
Innovation
Dryadların İzinden integrates sensorial experience, dialogue and vocalization to transform future planners from seeing a forest land that is often represented as a “green area” on the plan to experiencing the being of a forest that calls an ecological perspective when decisions have to be made for such land. Vocalization becomes part of a spatial experience and dialogue supports that by allowing opportunities to emerge through which participants create new ways to see and reflect.
Instructors
Some invited instructors from other domains include Dr. Atilla Çağdaş Değer and Çiğdem Aytepe (Music Composition and Choir Master) from Hacettepe University and Prof. Dr. Nilgül Karadeniz (Landscape Architecture) from Ankara University.
Participants
Dyriadların İzinden is formally open to students with city planning and architecture background; however, it also conveys the potential of including participants from any domain. In fact, its inclusive approach and collaborations expand the range of participants beyond the university. Children and youth groups, inhabitants and professionals are all suitable to involve in various shared experiences.