Lockdown//Karantina

The Ozu-GSES City and Architecture Master’s Program 2020 attends the Istanbul Architecture Festival with a workshop titled LOCKdown.

In response to the open call of the Istanbul Architecture Festival 2020, over 100 participants applied for the call with 41 event proposals. As a result of the evaluation of the selection board, the LockDown Workshop was selected as one of the 12 events included in the festival program which will take place from December 5 through December 11, 2020.

The main participants of the workshops are the students of the thesis and non-thesis master’s programs administered collectively under the overarching themes of “New City” and “New Architecture” and offered jointly by the Faculty of Architecture and Design (FAD) at Özyeğin University, the Urban & Housing Lab (OzU-UHL) established under the roof of OZU-FAD, and IAPS-Culture and Space Network (IAPS-CS Network). The second module of the workshop will be open to all festival participants. 

The workshop is made of two modules.

Module 1 was completed with 4 sessions from November 28 to December 1, 2020 with pre-determined participants (Students of the Özyeğin UniversityCity and Architecture Master’s Programs).

The second module is open to festival participants.

The workshop process and outputs will be featured during the festival.

Workshop: December 7, 2020 Time: 12:00-16:00
Workshop Presentation: December 10, 2020 Time: 17:00-18:00

LOCKdown Workshop Team

Nagehan Açımuz İşbakan I Hülya Turgut I Sena Serdaroğlu

Please visit our Instagram accounts for the workshop process and outputs.
@lockdown_workshop  and @ozu.uhl

For participation and program details:www.istanbulmimarlikfestivali.com@mimarlıkfestivali

Lockdown//Daily life practices in pandemic and post-pandemic era 

The workshop aims to map and conceptualize the individual daily routines we adopted under the phased “lockdown” (mobility restrictions and quarantine) and limited freedom practices during the pandemic which have prompted us all to rethink our urban and daily experiences surrounding our daily lives and form new relationships with our apprehension of “heterotopia - utopia - dystopia”. In doing so, the workshops aspires to re-identify concepts, re-define “lockdown” for potential future practices, and produce, reproduce and discuss all of these maps and concepts to eventually create a shared lockdown dictionary. 

The workshop will employ different tools (texts, diagrams, ideograms, graphics, maps, writings....) in explaining the concepts produced, reproduced, discussed and refined. In that sense, the workshop will also serve as an exercise which will be instrumental in expressing the conceptual infrastructure of the proposed projects developed in different stages and processes.

The primary goal of the workshop is to discuss the recently-experienced LOCKdown processes which are currently carried on by individual initiatives in the face of the ongoing situation, and which will probably be experienced in the near future under a new form, while defining the near past, today, and future within the context of the situations and phases such as LOCKdown, SEMI LOCKdown, and RE-LOCKdown (with names being open for a discussion). The resulting dictionary is expected to draw from daily routines, spatial equivalency, spatial conceptualizations, concepts borrowed from medicine, and popular culture such as newspapers, magazines and TV, while offering studies that open up new horizons for applying some of these re-designed/-produced concepts to spatial design and/or realizing the dream for their potential spatial equivalency in daily life practices in the future scenarios.