Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
METU JOURNAL OF THE FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, sa.2, 2023 (AHCI)
This study, in which the influence of space characterizing subjective experience is problematized, is a continuation of a critical reading of the demolition interventions that have become determinative in the spatial structuring of the city of Kayseri and the tendencies towards protection and sustainability. The reading relates to the object, nevertheless, when this urban structuring is taken as the concrete counterpart of experience, it can be argued that it signals the strength of normative boundaries. Thereby, the study turns into an analysis process through the problem of the production of space and the relationship of the conditioned experience. This analysis is based on Michel Foucault's analysis of subjectification and power relations. This relational perspective, suggests that subject and object are simultaneously constituted and mutually transformed in a practice, expanding the problematic area to conditions and power/knowledge practices. In this context, the study aims to reveal the effect of power/ knowledge in space based on Foucault's discourse analysis; in other words, discursive effects (savoir) and normative boundaries are the continuation of existing practices. In this respect, to analyze the "given" experiences, by going back from the present, with a genealogical conception of history that includes the analysis of discourse formations; in the city from the early Republican period in the process extending up to 1989 discursive, non-discursive practices and the domain of object are addressed. In the city, an analysis can be made in which the historically conditioned experience becomes concrete in discursive, architectonic, and urban forms. In different historical periods, modes of the problematization of space have structured various processes of subjectification. However, even if they are produced with different motivations in the context of the contents of normative systems, a particular form of discourse in which the existing/ old is devalued has produced normalized patterns of practice. Therefore, it is possible to establish a continuity regarding the transformation in the subject's system of values and self-practices. The fact that these practices are not only produced in specific historical periods but also have a determining effect on the present is important for the conclusions of this study. It is concluded that the relationship between people and space in the city is covered with dispositives as strategic discourse/practice patterns and produces current trends. However, to discuss and overcome historical boundaries, this approach emphasizes the necessity of addressing the intervention in urban space in the context of ontological relationship: It is important for subjective experience and design practices to consider what strategic-manipulative and subjectivizing effects the problematic of the production of space carries.