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Between 2015-2021, I served at the Education, Awareness Raising and Training Category as a jury member. Since 2022, I am serving as the vice-president of the Adaptive Reuse and Conservation category. I have expertise on the adaptive reuse of heritage buildings and awareness raising works. Since 2015, I am the UNESCO Chair on the Management and Promotion of World Heritage Sites: New Media and Community Involvement at the Kadir Has University. I have expertise on the UNESCO programmes in specific to the 1972 Convention on the Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage. Between 2011-2014 I served at the Turkish UNESCO National Commission, tangible heritage committee and acted as the culture expert of Turkey at the 38th World Heritage Committee Meeting. In 2018, I worked at the UNESCO World Heritage Centre as the focal point for the 2011 Recommendation on the Historic Landscape Approach and Coordinator of the World Heritage Cities Programme. I have expertise statutory procedures and on the implementation of the HUL Recommendation, Management Plan preparations, Nomination File preparations. While working at the WHC, I was following the Sustainable Development Goals (in specific to 11.4), therefore have expertise on the reporting procedures. My PhD has focused on the railway heritage and its impacts on the urban transformation, and I am currently coordinating H2020 MSCA_RISE Project titled “Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development” (acronym CONSIDER). Therefore, 19th century urban and architectural history is another focus area for my studies. Under this heading, management of industrial sites, adaptive reuse and transformations can be listed as research topics. So far I have curated four major public exhibitions that are the outcomes of the research projects is a special area of expertise.
DNA of Industrial Heritage: Deindustrialization aNd Adaptive Reuse.
Abstract
There are different trajectories of deindustrialization leading to abandonment and neglect. Deindustrialization and industrial heritage are two terms coined in and around the same period in 1970s. Although both are a by-product of industrialization, deindustrialization studies and heritage studies often do not come close, they prosper in their own silos. On the one hand deindustrialization studies focus on the narratives of displaced workers and their experiences/suffering without a direct link with the place, while on the other hand, heritage studies are concerned solely with the physical remnants of the industrial complexes. Concerned with the physical remnants of the industrial complexes, the adaptive reuse approaches permit conservation through development– utilization and integration of redundant industrial areas in the contemporary urban landscape. Although adaptive reuse of industrial heritage is a culturally sustainable option in urban transformation and heritage is a potential resource for the urban and regional development, the implementation is often problematic in the sense that the industrial sites after adaptive reuse are stripped from being memory places of worker's, instead they are sterilized, creating a disconnect with its context, both in terms of deindustrialization history, and meaning. In that sense, the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage often fails to meet sustainability criteria that prioritize people's needs in social and cultural terms, focusing mainly on the economic dimension and paying little attention to the environmental concerns. This PhD thesis wants to investigate different deindustrialization trajectories to understand if they have an impact on defining the adaptive reuse processes. This approach rejects taking the abandonment as the starting point of transformation for adaptive reuse, but rather wants to look at the entire history of the building, including the contextual background preparing its construction, dynamics of the deindustrialization processes, the abandonment processes and the adaptive reuse as a whole. By doing so, it hopes to identify patterns or links between deindustrialization processes and adaptive reuse strategies.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Erkan Yonca
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Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development (CONSIDER).
Abstract
CONSIDER "Sustainable Management of Industrial Heritage as a Resource for Urban Development", aims to develop sustainable management model (SMM) for industrial heritage sites (IHS) for the benefits of the local communities as a resource for strengthening collective identities, improving the urban landscape, promoting ecofriendly solutions, and contributing to the urban economy and a sustainable future of the city. The innovative side of this model is in its inclusive approach to the problem (regionally, sectorial, taking into consideration gender aspects, and its highlight on the exchange of knowledge, technology and labour). This novel collaboration will be improved by through synergies, networking activities, organisation of workshop, summer school, webinars, and final conference to facilitate sharing of knowledge. The circular knowledge exchange is based on systematic and triple-helix approach between academia (universities), policymakers (municipalities), and practitioners (SME/NGO) that will contribute both in identifying problems and developing guidelines for their improvement. This research brings novelty in respect of geographic regions that previously were not sufficiently investigated and inventoried thus providing the basis for further comparative research undertakings and sustainability of the Project outcomes in creation of new knowledge.Researcher(s)
- Promoter: Erkan Yonca
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