Ejohnson: Istanbul: Multi-city — INFORMATION FIELD. In Istanbul, typologies of urban conditions can be identified as the tangible consequence of the municipal development policy that dictates the manner in which people occupy the built environment. These conditions can be interpreted as an information field of urban complexities: the buildings that define the built environment, the people who occupy this environment and their…

Michael-Contento: latent conflict — Istanbul thrives on multi- and hyper-occupation; these are productive in the life of the city. Certain areas, however, repress these conditions. This repression is the catalyst for the production of Istanbul’s ‘double’; the production of underlying turbulence, which then produces conditions for the perpetuation of a new multi- and hyper-occupation. When occupying the Art House, one is…

Michael-Contento: latent conflict — representations/structures of conflict_ Double Meaning_ _Internal splitting; bifurcation; phase change The structure of the double meaning is a constant rethinking of occupation and the generation of a multiplicity of ‘others’ as a result of phase changes/bifurcations. These phase changes are specific moments that occur within gradients of conditions. Occupation here is of the dynamic…

Michael-Contento: latent conflict — As Istanbul continues to grow, the city is and has been developing certain dialectical situations and conflicts, both physical and psychological, which live within the urban context and help shape the collective memory of the city. These oppositions form an invisible network of edges and thresholds within the urban fabric; lying dormant; perpetually haunting the city of Istanbul. As this latent…

Yem: A Possible Reversal of Roles — We can no longer think about architecture and occupation of space in a traditional sense because those answers are no longer relevant to the questions of today. In an age where technology allows you to be ‘anywhere’ what does it mean to be ‘somewhere’? What is the new nature of ‘space’ and ‘occupation’? When you can occupy and experience ‘virtual space’, then what does ‘real space’ mean? The…

Yem: Gaming as a Tool for Occupation — Contemporary architecture has already appropriated animation software such as Maya, 3DStudio Max, gaming industry software, and other code-based scripts and algorithms. The creation of new environments through the use of developments in Information Technology is significantly altering not only architecture itself but also the roles and tasks of the architects. Architecture can no longer be…