- İDEALKENT
- Vol: 11 Issue: 29
- Peki Ya Genç Bir Meslek İnsanı Olsaydınız? İlhan Tekeli Dersinin Eleştirel Zemininde Bir Senaryo...
Peki Ya Genç Bir Meslek İnsanı Olsaydınız? İlhan Tekeli Dersinin Eleştirel Zemininde Bir Senaryo
Authors : Gülşah Aykaç
Pages : 543-558
Doi:10.31198/idealkent.642273
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Publication Date : 2020-04-30
Article Type : Research
Abstract :This paper attempts to open a critical discussion of Tekeli’s graduate course discussing active citizenship and participation in extension with the labor and work of young professionals (as architects/urban planners/urban designers) in our era of urban crisis. With this aim, the fragments of a fictional scenario—which was the final task of the course—are analyzed within a twofold framework: First, the paper elaborates that there are both formal and non-formal agents playing roles in the production of urban space and knowledge of urban space. Not only a variety of formal institutions but also civil organizations and initiatives have emerged considerably since the 2010s in Turkey. Hence, the labor in the production of urban space is pluralized by diversified agents. Secondly, I point out that our generation has been witnessing an era of urban crisis with multiple dimensions such as urban resistance and repression, anti-participatory aggressive production processes of urban space, exploitation of young professionals’ labor in parallel with unemployment, and the diminishing capacity of the profession. Through this twofold framework, I argue (and the fictional scenario accordingly ends in such a way) that young professionals could overcome the limits of the profession and generate new critical processes through prompting active citizenship and participation, including multiple actors of the production of urban space. This is the potential of the experiences of the last decade that we have just passed.Keywords : Labor and work, production of urban space, civil organizations, active citizenship, İlhan Tekeli