time-being: living and dying with morethanhuman world, 2022
This drawing-research project seeks to reveal the more-than-human entanglement of a gecekondu* in Ferikoy. I define this gecekondu as an unfaithful/mediocre child of architecture because of its unintentional willingness to embrace what conventional architecture rejects. My inquiry probes both the theoretical and practical lessons that we can learn for living and dying together from a gecekondu while simultaneously upending traditional hierarchies imposed on drawing practices—such as line thickness, deciding whether something is worth including or not, or frozen-intime representations. Instead, I imagine a fluid, non-hierarchical approach, or more precisely, alternative hierarchies that challenge conventional ones. By superposing various temporalities and perspectives of the gecekondu, this project seeks to dismantle static and nowhere viewpoints. It foregrounds the researcher’s situated position, revealing the self as an integral part of the observation and drawing process.
*an informal built house, literally means built overnight in Turkish