Browsing by Author "Öztürk, M. N."
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Item Open Access Cultivating space: artifact and agency in the case of theatre before and beyond its scenes(SAGE, 2013) Öztürk, M. N.This essay addresses theatre space as a distinct actualization of a social site, namely that collective organization that is formulated in the context of performative activity. It seeks to further the understanding of its operations in constituting agency and the collective by way of examining physical space as an experiential field. It proposes an approach and institutes the methodological tools to enable analysis of architectural space at an empirical level and in terms of its unmediated nonmediating effects, accessing the productive embedded in the corporeality of space-body relationships. Theatre space is examined and ascertained as a site through which realities of the social are grasped, and immediate bodily experience in and through space is confirmed as an authentic path of acquiring practical knowledge. Bearing on the conceptualization of built architectural space, as well as on the material practices of constituting and inhabiting space, this study concretizes less-charted aspects of sociospatial reciprocities, the physical and the social self, and discloses the experiential lying with built space as a means of cultural continuity.Item Open Access The design studio as teaching/learning medium-A process-based approach(Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, 2006-02) Öztürk, M. N.; Türkkan, E. E.This article discusses a design studio teaching experience exploring the design process itself as a methodological tool. We consider the structure of important phases of the process that contain different levels of design thinking: conception, function and practical knowledge as well as the transitions from inception to construction. We show how this approach to the design process allows the possibility of addressing elusive issues that underlie the practice of design.Item Open Access An uncanny site/side: on exposure, dark space, and structures of fear in the context of performance(Routledge, 2010) Öztürk, M. N.This article approaches the site as a corporeal component of theatrical praxis. It seeks to acknowledge that a subtle dimension of space, the 'bodily' and unmediated, can trigger an experiential mode, infused with feelings, and bearing on the ontological. From this perspective, the site is conceived as an artefact not only because it constructs the presentation of the theatrical work, and assists the unfolding of a multi-dimensional performative event, but also because, as space that is formalized, qualified and effective, it performs as a dynamic constituent of experience. This article proposes to substantiate such capacities of the site by way of a dramatization of the effects of space, through fear. This offers the opportunity to grasp, within the spatial economy of theatre, certain less-explored operations of space as discrete phenomena that recur, and configure a relatively autonomous layer of experience for all participants involved. These phenomena render audiences productive, invigorated through fear, and engaged in the performance. © 2010 Taylor & Francis.