Landscape Design II Poster // "Whose landscape is this?"(20817)

by Safiye Elif Serdar Yakut | Feb 09, 2025
Landscape Design II (PEM 311E - CRN 20817) - "Whose landscape is this?" will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Elif Lutfiye Kutay Karaçor @elif_lkkaracor and Res. Assist Mürşit Sönmez @landscapeontheway in the 2024-2025 Spring Semester.
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Landscape Design II [Whose landscape is this?] Poster

2024 - 2025 Spring
Landscape Design II Poster
"Whose landscape is this?"

Landscape Design II (PEM 311E - CRN 20817) - "Whose landscape is this?" will be conducted by Prof. Dr. Elif Lutfiye Kutay Karaçor @elif_lkkaracor and Res. Assist Mürşit Sönmez @landscapeontheway in the 2024-2025 Spring Semester.

This studio focuses on the TOKİ housing area in Muğla Menteşe, a region proximate to key public facilities such as universities and hospitals. The central question, "Whose landscape is this?" seeks to explore the potential of landscapes associated with mass housing areas, which are frequently criticized for contributing to identity erosion due to their repetitive and monotonous designs. The project aims to shift the paradigm from mass housing as a monologue—disconnected from geography and user needs—to a dialogue that fosters meaningful relationships between the designed landscape, cultural context, and spatial experience.

The design approach emphasizes not only the physical attributes of the landscape but also the social dynamics and the connections individuals establish with their spaces. The studio targets social, economic, and ecological sustainability, aiming to reintegrate mass housing areas—often culturally detached—into a landscape that serves the public interest. This reintegration is expected to enhance the sense of place, foster community identity, and promote a more harmonious relationship between the built environment and its inhabitants. 

ITU Department of Landscape Architecture

 

Vision

To train contemporary landscape architects who are open to national and international cooperation, whose contributions to the country and universal science are increasing day by day, who transfer natural and cultural values to future societies, who follow and apply contemporary design concepts and developing landscape technology, who have a respectable and unique place among other departments providing landscape architecture education, with an innovative program that continuously improves quality.

 

Mission

The aim of the programme is to train professionals and scientists who are self-renewing, who have adopted contemporary scientific and critical thinking, who can develop original ideas and have the ability to apply them, who produce for the sustainability of living spaces in different scales and contents by considering professional ethics and environmental sensitivity, and who are guiding and pioneering in the interdisciplinary lane.

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