Overview
In Other Latitudes course offered by Architectural Association will be located in the center of Izmir to view the recurring condition of displacement and its effects on the city.
The historically migrant neighborhoods surrounding Izmir’s Roman Agora continue to be the point of arrival in the city for contemporary refugees due to the construction of the train station in the 19th century.
Providing a kind of spatial lab to study resettlement, contemporary solutions of housing and integration can be observed.
By looking at urban space within architectural, sociological, and political discourses, discussions on issues of identity, temporality, and informality are developed.
Here, we will be facilitating points of contact and observing cultural products of migrants from within by examining the material conditions of social frameworks and their manifestations in architecture.
Skills Developed
- Field experience observing self-made spaces of migrants
- Understanding contemporary methodologies to house lower-class emigrants
- Finding cultural elements embedded in the social and built environment
- Theoretical lectures on spatial reflections of displacement
- Effects of significant events in Mediterranean migration such as the Greek population exchange of 1923
- Observing traces of traditional Greek architecture present in current migrant neighborhoods
- Visiting preserved structures of Sephardic Jewish architectural heritage
- Social acquaintance with inhabitants of areas occupied by displaced people
- Visiting roman ruins of the Agora of Smyrna
- Visiting solidarity spaces, informal community spaces, and an art collective
- Archival findings
- Production and projection of migration films and video documentation
- Experimentation with various recording methods and mapping techniques
Programme Structure
- In the field, we are able to find intermediate spaces occupied and appropriated at different scales.
- Lectures and seminars will cover topics of displacement and resettlement, followed by relevant fieldwork in which the formation of architectural and social orders in the new domain will be observed.
- These studies will document local architectural and anthropological elements using recording methods, collection of objects, and mapping.
- The outcome will be a small-scale intervention derived from findings, exhibited together with a street dinner in the neighborhood.
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 days
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting
- Apply before
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Language
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Disciplines
Architecture Civil Engineering & Construction Landscape ArchitectureAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
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Other requirements
General requirements
- The programme is open to graduate and undergraduate students, PhD candidates and young professionals interested in migration. Our multidisciplinary program is open to architecture as well as archeology, anthropology, history of art, migration studies, cultural studies, development studies and related fields.
Tuition Fee
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International
595 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 595 GBP for the full programme during 12 days. -
National
595 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 595 GBP for the full programme during 12 days.
The AA Visiting School requires a fee of £595 per participant, which includes a £60 Visiting Membership fee, payable by all participants.
Living costs for Istanbul
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