Nazlı Tümerdem - A CRITICAL WALK

Описание: 09.11.2023
Nazlı Tümerdem - A CRITICAL WALK

This walk, conceived and conducted by Nazlı Tümerdem, is an expedition to the near, one that we will be performing in the territory where the ETH ONA building is located. Our aim will be to employ critical walking as an ethnographic and artistic method by going out of the classroom and into the field. Our collective walk will start at the Fokushalle. We will then follow a riparian route along the arms of the Glatt river. In order to explore this (un)familiar landscape, we will slow down to our own walking pace. The walk will conclude in Leutschenpark.

Nazlı Tümerdem is an architect and researcher. She received her bachelor’s degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and her master’s degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2016, she was part of the curatorial team of the Turkish Pavilion for the 15th Architecture Biennial of Venice. She completed her PhD entitled “Istanbul Walkabouts: A Critical Walking Study of Northern Istanbul” (2018) at Istanbul Technical University. In September 2019, she joined the ETH Zurich D-ARCH Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning as a postdoctoral researcher with the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. She continues to perform critical walks in northern Istanbul and other locations. She is also part of the curatorial and editorial team for The Great Repair project and the two accompanying ARCH+ issues.

The lecture is part of the talk series MY WEATHER within the core course Architecture of Territory: Territorial Design in Histories, Theories and Projects.

CONCEPT AND REALISATION
Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning, ETH Zurich Department of Architecture
Prof. Milica Topalović
Dr. Nazlı Tümerdem

VIDEO RECORDING AND EDITING
Giacomo Rossi

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Goda Budvytyte

BOOK BINDING
Giacomo Rossi
Michiel Gieben

This lecture series sets up an agenda for widening the disciplinary field of architecture and urbanism from their focus on the city, or the urban in the narrow sense, to wider territorial scales, which correspond to the increasing scales of contemporary urbanisation. It discusses the concepts of territory and urbanisation, and their implications for the work of architects and urbanists.

MY WEATHER
Within the theme MY WEATHER, we will trace the uneven impacts of the environmental crises on the ground, and reflect on the entanglements of weather, atmosphere, and climate with the constructed environments and ecologies. Together we will address climate change as an architectural and territorial issue and challenge the politics of cartography, perform a critical walk, and ask whether architecture is climate.

The course will enable students to critically discuss concepts of territory and urbanisation. It will invite students to revisit the history of architects’ work engaging with the problematic of urbanising territories and territorial organisation. The goal is to motivate and equip students to engage with territory in the present day and age, by setting out our contemporary urban agenda. The lectures are animated by a series of visual and conceptual exercises, usually on A4 sheets of paper. All original student contributions will be collected and bound together, creating a unique book-object. Some of the exercises are graded and count as proof of completion.