Ali Taptık "The Sensible and The Research"

Ali Taptık joins us with his lecture "The Sensible and The Research"  The lecture and the following discussion will take place ONLY on ZOOM on Dec 10, 19:00 (GMT +3), there will be no recording so please email me for a zoom link should you want to join the lecture.

Ali Taptık (1983) is an artist and PhD Candidate in Architectural Design at ITU. Representation of urban landscape and architecture, the relationship between the individual and the city, psychogeography and interaction of literature and visuality are some of the themes that he explores. In addition to working with institutions to document and research ever changing Istanbul, Taptık has published several books including Kaza ve Kader (Filigranes Editions, 2009); Depicting Istanbul (Akin Nalca, 2010), There are no failed experiments. (Atelier de Visu, 2012) and Nothing Surprising (Marraine Ginette, 2015). His works have been exhibited in various institutions including SALT (Istanbul), MAXXI (Rome), Ashkal Alwan (Beirut) and Venice Biennial for Architecture. Taptık is one of the founders of Bandrolsüz collective which distributes independent artists’ books and the co_founder of the design and publishing company Onagöre. He is an activist who has been working on the preservation of the Historic Vegetable Gardens of Yedikule. 

Aesthetics of Architectural and Urban Research course, led by Aslıhan Demirtaş, investigates architectural production beyond buildings and explores research and design work of speculative and provocative nature.

The 2020-2021 semester critically explores the Anthropocene and climate change while problematizing the ‘museum of natural history.’ Students will reevaluate the what, how and why of a natural history museum of a damaged planet while considering the urgencies of today highlighted further by the pandemic. The course is enriched by guest lecturers of various disciplines.