The Architecture, Culture & Tectonics Research Group warmly invites you to attend their Seminar on Wednesday 7th Februrary 2024 at 13pm, B38 Lenton Firs.

Transgressive Acts: A Study Of Dialogue Creation In Museums

Guest speaker: Yasemin Fisek

Abstract:

The concept of transgression has been examined in the cultural context by various thinkers and later reflected in the discipline of architecture. With the reflection of the concept of transgression in architecture, this concept has created a significant research area in criticizing the restrictive logic of social taboos and architectural rules by using it as a tool to criticize architecture under the control of pragmatic constraints, hierarchies, and social rules. On the other hand, the border-crossing nature of the transgression allows the functionalist, regulatory and spatial relations towards commodity production to be replaced by a situation that pursues experimentation and enables an endless network of relations. As a result of the research carried out in this context, it was concluded that the transgression is a "productive dialogue" that provides a performative opportunity in the search for a new one in architecture; It is aimed to investigate the problem of how this concept is realized in museums, what kind of spatial and contextual opportunities it provides and how these possibilities reproduce museums. In other words, the conceptual work obtained will be tried to be explained and analysed through examples of museums. In this way, it is aimed to create an alternative reading base that allows new museum readings by breaking the understanding of reading the museum through the hierarchical and norms system.

Biography:

Yasemin Fisek is currently a PhD candidate in Architecture Design (Social Science) and a member of the ACT research group, University of Nottingham. She graduated from Yildiz Technical University with a master’s degree of Architectural Design. In 2023, she began her PhD research titled “Transgressive Acts: A Study of Dialogue Creation in Museums” under the supervision of Prof Jonathan Hale and Dr Laura Hanks. Her research interest areas are architectural theory and discourse, architectural criticism, and architectural philosophy.