[WELTRAUM I] Istanbul Walkabouts
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The walking project Istanbul Walkabouts is a research project by Nazlı Tümerdem. With the ethnographic and artistic methodologies she critically examine how different investments affect changes in the landscapes of northern Istanbul. She started the project with the aim of creating awareness of the ecological consequences of neoliberal urbanization processes in the Istanbul regions. In Berlin, I had the opportunity to join a walk organised by Nazlı as part of a research workshop on critical geography. The walk didn’t leave me discouraged, so I asked Nazlı a little more about her project.
[WELTRAUM] is an independent radio show curated by Boštjan Bugarič and broadcasted via NORadio
Nazlı Tümerdem is an architect/researcher from Istanbul. She received her B.Arch degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and M.Arch degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2016, she was part of the team of Turkish Pavilion for the 15th Architecture Biennial of Venice. She completed her Ph.D. ‘Istanbul Walkabouts: A Critical Walking Study of Northern Istanbul’ (2018) at Istanbul Technical University and continues performing walks around northern Istanbul as a part of her walking research project Istanbul Walkabouts. On September 2019, she started her postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich D-ARCH Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning.