FROM RELATIONLESSNESS TO RELATEDNESS: ALIENATION AND THE IN-BETWEEN REALM REVISITED

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2022-9-16

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The transformation in the production processes and consequently in the urban form itself with the First Industrial Revolution has brought various forms of relationlessness, which have since been discussed as “alienation.” Alienation has manifested in the workplace, has permeated everyday life, has become concrete in the built environment, and has spread through screens; as a result, it has taken many forms through the ages. Even though these conditions that lead to alienation are still valid in the 21st century, they have become so “familiar” that they go unnoticed. This familiarity leads to the illusion that alienation disappears; yet, alienation continues to affect implicitly. This research regards it as a problematique. Within this respect, the aim of this research is twofold. First, to resurrect the phenomenon of alienation by tracing its “hidden continuity” historically and theoretically mainly in the scope of the built environment and to uncover its impacts in the 21st century. Second, to search for possibilities to ameliorate the negative impacts of alienation and to transform the forms of relationlessness into the forms of relatedness within the architectural discourse. The research revisits the concept of the “in-between realm” as the definer of relatedness. Influenced by the philosopher Martin Buber and many other resources, Aldo van Eyck develops the concept of the in-between realm, which provides a common ground for several opposites to meet, interact, and reconcile. Emphasizing the necessity of reevoking the in-between realm developed by van Eyck and later interpreted by Herman Hertzberger, this research argues that the in-between realm will be useful in terms of transforming the forms of relationlessness into various forms of relatedness.

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alienation, relationlessness, in-between realm, relatedness, aldo van eyck

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T. Özer, “FROM RELATIONLESSNESS TO RELATEDNESS: ALIENATION AND THE IN-BETWEEN REALM REVISITED,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.