Connecting Rural Change and Local Crafts: Rebranding Sock Knitting in Yenikaraağaç

2019-12-31
Veryeri Alaca, Ilgım
Aktaş, Bilge Merve
Gürel, Burak
Show full item record
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
310
views
137
downloads
Rural development literature has demonstrated that in modern times, farming alone is usually unable to provide sufficient returns to develop a rural economy and keep the processes of outmigration and aging of the rural population in check. The development of non-farm activities such as small-scale industries, handicrafts, and rural tourism has been recognized as an indispensable method of providing relatively sufficient income to villagers, preventing rural exodus, and maintaining a lively village culture which combines contemporary practices with time-honored traditions. Based on a fieldwork in the village of Yenikaraagac (located near the city of Bursa in western Turkey) and the outreach postcard project connecting the village to urban areas, we argue that design-based approaches can expand the audience of local craft practices and contribute to rural development. This argument is supported by our examination of the historical trajectory and current state of sock knitting in Yenikaraagag. The postcard project, which connects sock knitting in the village to other areas, is an example of how designerly approaches present the potential of local crafts to maintain dignified livelihoods in rural Turkey.
Architecture, Sock knitting, Bursa, Crafts, Rural development, Postcard project
http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2019202.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/50612
Department of Architecture, Article

Suggestions

Rural area definition and examination of spatial distribution of rural development projects in Turkey: case study of IPARD in Ankara
Elibol, Banu; Kayasü, Serap; Department of City and Regional Planning (2019)
The concept of “rural” and definition of “rural area” had been controversial since they appear on the literature. Even though rural has been assumed as the opposite of the urban for a long period of time, these two terms are not the opposite but the complementary terms. Therefore, rural development is not an effort to transfer rural areas into urban. Moreover, rural area definition has been evolved by governments, international organizations, and academicians throughout the time. Consequently, development o...
Contributions of web and mobile applications to rural development on the basis of product management: a case from GAP region
Şahin, Gizem; Büyükcivelek, Ahmet Burak; Urban Design in City and Regional Planning Department (2022-5-06)
The agricultural sector has maintained its vital importance as it meets the food need of the population in every period of human history. Also, the developments in agricultural production in world history allow to access to the times for focusing on technological developments. Correctly implemented and integrated technological advancement into business processes of agricultural production help agricultural producers to sustain their agricultural activities, especially in rural areas which are disadvantaged ...
Conservation of rural architectural heritage as part of historic rural landscapes: principles and strategies for Zeytinliköy-Agios Theodoros (Gökçeada)
Çolak, Merve; Serin, Ufuk; Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Department of Architecture (2019)
Interactions between traditional rural architecture, the natural environment surrounding it, and the socio-cultural characteristics of the local community using it have all long been debated in terms of the conservation of cultural heritage. However, understanding the human beings and nature, and the tangible and intangible values that emerge as a result of interactions between them as a whole, within the concept of the ‘historical rural landscape’, have become a current issue as a consequence of the incorp...
Changing relationship between urban and rural: the observed features of new rurality in rural areas
Özdirek, Sibel; Pınarcıoğlu, Mehmet Melih; Department of City and Regional Planning (2011)
The new changes such as developments in transportation and communication technology, globalization of markets, intensification of flow of information, ideas and innovations since the 1980s have helped to increase the interaction between urban and rural and this process have had very important impact on the resemblance process of rural areas to urban areas with some characteristics, vice versa. Therefore the process have had an effect on the blurring strict distinction between urban and rural in worldwide. T...
An assessment and re-identification of the rural heritage site of Santa (Dumanlı köy, Gümüşhane)
Abay, Pelin; Serin, Ufuk; Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Department of Architecture (2023-1-03)
Since the Industrial Revolution, rural landscapes, the product of the mutual relationship of human beings and nature, have witnessed a process of depopulation throughout the world for a variety of reasons. The Population Exchange between Turkey and Greece in 1923 (1923 Türkiye-Yunanistan Nüfus Mübadelesi) – one of the reasons for the depopulation of rural areas in Turkey – had major repercussions on both the immigrant Turks and emigrant Rums, as well as on the rural settlements and landscapes. These r...
Citation Formats
I. Veryeri Alaca, B. M. Aktaş, and B. Gürel, “Connecting Rural Change and Local Crafts: Rebranding Sock Knitting in Yenikaraağaç,” ODTÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi Dergisi, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 121–140, 2019, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/articles/metujfa2019202.pdf.
METU IIS - Integrated Information Service open@metu.edu.tr