CLAIMING DEBRIS EPISTEMOLOGY IN ARCHITECTURE

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2925-9-1

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Arıkboğa, Caner

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This study presents debris as an epistemological inquiry for architecture by looking at the conditions and processes emerging during the afterlife of the built environment. Destruction as a continuum of space-making harbors the capacities of logistics while mobilizing matter and exerting violence. By exposing a relational ground, the thesis offers debris in the ecology of logistics as the material witness of destruction. Logistics of debris is a process requiring infrastructural capacities and ecological engagements, which causes slow and positive violence. The violence in debris logistics points out an epistemological opening to transform the knowledge of architecture. Post-disaster environment of February 2023 Earthquakes in Türkiye provides the conditions and processes of debris logistics in a tense environment in condensed timelines. The cleanup and reconstruction operations in a post-disaster environment create a logistical ecology with traces of violence. The thesis aims to uncover the logistical violence of debris, which is a fatal consequence of mobilization mechanisms under the control of authoritarian regimes. Following the reports from institutions and independent media outlets, this study situates a knowledge of debris with in-situ investigations by mappings and photographic documentation. With debris epistemology, thesis challenges (A)rchitecture by foregrounding mobilization of destruction as a critical process in space-making practices. Therefore, debris informs an extended course of architecture that continues from pre-construction to post-destruction, while challenging the conventional assumptions of space-making with fixity, completion, and intention. By discussing materiality, temporality, and scale of debris, debris epistemology proposes to include the residual and mobile matter as an onto-epistemological inquiry in architecture.

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debris, epistemology, logistics, ecology, destruction

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/116131

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis