Hereness and thereness: Mapping the visual experience of the urban landscape in the case of Ankara historic center

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2023-9-11

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Türe, Sena

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The present thesis study consists of a research that focuses on the visual experience of individuals in the historic urban landscape of Ankara. Together with their kinaesthetic and sequential experience and sense of position, the notions of hereness and thereness are elaborated for the re-examination of the urban landscape and its image. While the image of the city plays a noteworthy part in people’s awareness of and association with it, people’s involvement in the holistic urban experience enriched by explorations and encounters with architectural and urban values, serves as a base to understand individuals’ recognition of their environment and their positions and movements within the urban landscape. The thesis, therefore, proposes explorations for new argumentations to enhance the understanding and reading of the urban landscape and its image through individuals’ experiences and their ability to identify the sequential parts and elements within the urban environment. The research is further elaborated through a case study conducted with a number of students of architecture in Ankara’s historic centre, Ulus. The case study area and the students’ visual experiences are examined through cognitive mapping including serial vision and narration. This approach has directed the research's development of a pedagogical methodology to be applied in the enhancement of architecture students’ mapping skills. Respectively to the case studies and their outcomes, the thesis aims to scrutinize the relationship between the individuals’ construction of their perceived image to their experiences in the urban landscape, in light of their sense of hereness and thereness.

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Townscape, Serial Vision, Cognitive Mapping, Narration, Ulus

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105643

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis