DISPOSITION TO RUPTURE: RESILIENCE THINKING AS A COPING MECHANISM IN THEFACE OF UNCERTAINTY OCCURRING IN THE URBAN SPACE

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2023-9-8

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Bingöl, Helin

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The systems which are dynamic, and ever-evolving, in which the variability and change is rich, tend to have a high amount of uncertainty. Constant changes, generating patterns of unpredictable movements and uncertainties, occur gradually and suddenly in the urban context. Thus, this study unveils uncertainty -rapid changes, paradigm shifts, displacements (i.e., migration of people, of program, and sometimes of the place itself), and alterations in programs- as urban rupture. Rupture refers to a shift corresponding to an unpredictable or uncertain change, causing significant remarks on different scales and contexts in cities. In other words, rupture may be defined as a disruptive event that fluctuates the built environment in unpredictable ways. On a broader scale, war/violence, pandemic/contagion, technological shift or failure, environmental disaster/global catastrophe, migration/massive displacement can be considered as ruptures. Even an unplanned change in the built environment program and its capacity to adapt can be identified as a rupture. Considering these, this study questions what kind of design thinking might be compatible with ruptures. It poses a critical position towards the static ways of place-making through the lenses of resiliency and ecological understanding of space. It discusses resilience thinking as the coping mechanism in the face of uncertainty. While doing so, it is intended to figure out different means of rupture and resilience cases in terms of different mediums of spatial matters, such as resilience strategy guidelines, urban projects dealing with rupture cases that are offering resilience approaches, and finally the exhibitions that raise awareness. Moreover, this study necessitates the importance of alternative thinking while coping-up with ruptures. The need for the alternative thinking is caused by the political, economic, and ecological systems of the globe that are under rising pressure in a world of increased uncertainty which is opposing with the traditional approaches which are dealing with the observable challenges. In order to cope-up with ruptures and uncertainty, this study embraces the scenario matrix method which allows to design and think upon future uncertainties in a flexible and novel way. The flexibility of the method helps to develop narrations about the future that widens the perspective beyond the conventional approaches and helps to develop possible future strategies in the face of uncertainty while carving out a niche for the resilience strategies in the context. In the light of these, this thesis study investigated on the context of Gölbaşı Düzlüğü, Ankara to envision possible yet uncertain rupture cases and developed scenarios via scenario-matrix method.

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Rupture, Uncertainty, Urban Resilience, Scenario matrix method in the urban space, Gölbaşı Düzlüğü

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105578

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis