The Making Of Beyoğlu

„The Making Of Beyoğlu“

„The Making Of Beyoğlu“ is a series of workshops taking place between September and December 2011 on five occasions, examining specific case studies in the district of Beyoğlu, Istanbul.

A collaboration between SALT, Bureau Venhuizen and Urban Rhizome, the project uses the principle of play to open the door to a more cultural kind of spatial planning, dubbed “game urbanism.”

 

Participants in the SALT Beyoğlu space – which include students, researchers, urban design and architectural professionals, policy-makers and community members – are challenged to analyze current planning issues of Beyoğlu and to propose ideas, raise objections, debate and lobby for solutions.

Using a game matrix, well-designed process and concept manager (Bureau Venhuizen and Urban Rhizome), the project aims to simplify complex situations; to reveal the wishes and interests of parties involved in decision-making; and to embrace curiosity, insight and enthusiasm throughout uncertain processes of change.

__ Game urbanism „The Making Of“

Bureau Venhuizen’s “The Making Of” examines the well-known structure of game playing – and applies it to spatial planning and collective decision-making processes.

“The Making Of” brings people together as participants of a game as they explore avenues to change. In a playful way the game is a tool to deconstruct a problem, to seek creative solutions to conflicts with multiple stakeholders and to gain a greater understanding of community decision-making as a process.
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__ SALT and Bureau Venhuizen

SALT, located in the district of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, hosts exhibitions, conferences and public programs; engages in interdisciplinary research projects; and maintains a library and archive of recent art, architecture, design, urbanism, and social and economic histories to make them available for research and public use.

Bureau Venhuizen is a project management and research bureau situated in Rotterdam, Netherlands, working in the field of culture-based planning. Focusing on settlement and planning processes in spatial planning, it takes culture as a point of departure. In this context, culture is broadly understood as cultural history, heritage, architecture and art, but also as the ensemble of contemporary culture among a region’s residents.

 

Bureau Venhuizen investigates the possibilities for culture to play a role in the design of space. The bureau’s methodology is based on the re-use of existing landscape-related and cultural qualities and translating these into a contemporary context to achieve a marriage of past, present and future. In this manner, new (cultural) landscapes and urban areas in our constantly changing environment can develop an identity that is not contrived, but drawn from a more natural continuum.

__ Schedule for „The Making Of Beyoğlu“

The "Making Of Beyoğlu" workshops take place between September and December 2011 at:

SALT, İstiklal Caddesi 136, Beyoğlu, 34440 İstanbul, Turkey.

For more information send a mail to: info@urban-rhizome.de