The Instrumentalization of Fictional Narrative in Relation to Architecture-Urban Environment: The Example of “Laughable Places” Workshop

Merve Eflatun

doi:10.46474/jds.1020244

Abstract

Interdisciplinary approaches and distinctive representation methods are needed to expand the range of meaning in the architecture and to consider the design process in unique frameworks. Literature disrupts the static images produced for the city in the context of the imaginative weight and the various dynamics it makes with the reader also uses the city, space, and architecture to create a different dimension of representation. This situation, which is inspected in the article regarding the relationship between literature, city, and architecture, will be examined through the "Laughable Places" workshop, that is part of the e-workshop days held at Gebze Technical University in February 2021. In this sense, firstly the relationship between literature and architecture and the revealing of their potentials are handled through the imaginative, representational and textual dimensions. Than through various workshops where the relationship between fictional narrative and architecture is applied, it is reviewed in which contexts fictional narrative can be included in the intellectual process of design. This review has been grouped according to the method in the workshop setups, using the fictional narrative based on literary works or the writing fictional narratives by participants. The workshop process was interpreted through the hybridity of the two approaches.

Highlights

Interdisciplinary approaches have an increasingly integral place in the understanding of architecture and the design process
It is understood that the workshops, which are written by the participant occasionally and sometimes open to discussion about the use of fictional narrative
When the relationship between fictional narrative and architecture is evaluated with different combinations such as the structure of the text, plot, subject, time, rather than reading that will be carried out only by filtering the space, it becomes possible to read it as a "design process" that is opened to re-evaluation with the reader

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Introduction

Interdisciplinary approaches have an increasingly integral place in the understanding of architecture and the design process. Various approaches provide the opportunity to read the ontology and epistemology of architecture in new frameworks, as well as recognize new areas by creating peculiar contexts in the design process. Main aim of this article to evaluate the effect of fictional narrative, which generally constitutes the nature of literature, on the perception of architecture and the city, through various interdisciplinary workshops held in this context

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