I am honoured to be invited to give a speech at Joint Master Seminar S3: “Crisis Architecture – 2 / Relation Nature – City : Permanent crisis situation” which is being hosted at Hepia, part of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland, in Geneva from 1 to 5 December 2014. I…
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ESTIA Conference “Building Sustainable Communities” 2014
I am honoured to be invited to the 11th ESTIA Conference on “Building Sustainable Communities” 2014 hosted by the University of Maine, USA. As a supporter of healthy, peaceful and eco-friendly life, I strongly believe that only respecting biological diversities and natural sources, as well as carrying every single creature on this planet, could save us…
ITU & EMU Workshop
Within the context of 3rd year studio, ITU, Department of Urban and Regional Planning conducts a project in Famagusta, Cyprus for 2014-2015 Fall semester. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Kerem Koramaz coordinates the project 3, Regional Analysis and Development Scenarios. The aim of this workshop was to bring together all multidisciplinary and academic experts in order to discuss the…
13. International Architect Encounter Canova 2014
13. International Architect Encounter Canova 2014 26 – 30 June 2014 Domodossola, Italy I gave a keynote speech at the 13th International Architect Encounter Canova in Domodossola, Italy, organized by Associazione Canova / Canova Association that is an international non-profit organization founded in 2001, among other three keynote addresses who were: Peter Cox (Dublin, Ireland),…
Cittaslow International Assembly 2014 Netherlands
Yeniboğaziçi, first #Cittaslow of Cyprus is represented in International Assembly which is hosted by Netherlands between 18-22 June 2014. The municipality of Yeniboğaziçi is represented by Ali Kömürcügil (Cittaslow coordinator of the municipality) , Resmiye Alpart Atun (representative of Chambers of Architects) and Ceren Boğaç (representative of Department of Architecture EMU). The Assembly started in Vaals at…
Cyprus: Divided Memory, United Future? BBC Radio4
I like to thank Maria Margaronis and Mark Burman for this beautiful program. It was pleasure for me to take part in it. Thank you also very much for supporting#FamagustaEcocityproject. I loved the narrative, i adored the selected musics. And I believe it was summarised at all when one said “…the last 60-70 years they…
“As It Happens” CBC RADIO-Canada
Talking to CBC RADIO-Canada “As It Happens” with Carol Off and Jeff Douglas during the “Famagusta EcoCity Project Phase I” process. PART THREE (@ “13:36) click to listen CYPRUS HOTELS LAND Beautiful beaches, white sands and an array of hotels with Mediterranean views to die for: the resort town of Varosha in Cyprus has everything. But…
Reviving Famagusta; From Ghost Town to Eco-city?
Dr. Ceren Bogac’s presentation at ’02:37:38 It was very emotional for me to meet with all those Famagusta refugees, tell them my personal narrative regarding our home town, sharing our experiences and hoping for a solution. I like to thank for all those beautiful people for their kind words who spend time with…
How Famagusta can become an open modern city
Independent Balkans News Agency By Thanasis Gavos – London A number of associations and civil society organisations have been pushing for the return of Famagusta to its rightful owners, its citizens, in a sustained campaign conducted on multiple levels. Some of the main actors of this campaign gathered in London for a conference organised by…
Talking to Radio France about living in a Fragmented Island
Two weeks ago I got a phone call from a journalist, Caroline Gillet, from Radio France. She said that she was making portraits about young people all over the Europe and listened to our BCC Outlook Radio program with Vasia Markides and interested to make an interview with young Cypriots about the current fragmentation of the…
Awakening the ghosts of Varosha: An Ecocity Project for Famagusta
I grow up in Famagusta, on the second floor of an apartment blog looking to ghost town Varosha. I listed to golden age of this abandoned place from my father who spent his youth in the region during mid 60’s until the fragmentation of the island in 1974. Our neighbours were ghosts living on the…
First Cittaslow of Cyprus: Yeniboğaziçi
One and half year ago with the encouragement of Chambers of Architects, Yeniboğaziçi Municipality has started a movement to join international cittaslow network. The municipality soon established a volunteer team and applied to our department for consultancy for this process. The first meeting of all the actors taking part for the movement (Me on…
Architectural Dilemma and My Murmurs
Every culture gave names to the objects during the centuries to supply the communication & sharing in itself. The words that are serviceable to define the objects bring together some concepts that constitute symbolic meaning and communication during the history, created their own complex system in every culture by changing continuously with perceptions & interpretations….
Do we really belong to our places for a lifetime?
Speed of life is fast, -perhaps too fast! We are experiencing it within all aspects. We are moving. And our places are moving with us too. Places are not stable entities any more… Even speed of life is fast and everything is moving, ‘Belongingness’ still stays Abraham Maslow’s list of hierarchy of needs. As Malsow…
When Philosophy Takes Form of Art
‘Light and Insects’ Sculpture Exhibition Artist: Bâki Boğaç Bâki Boğaç, well known Turkish Cypriot sculpture opened his VI.th solo exhibition named “Light and Insects” about a year ago in his atelier Pygmalion. There might be a year passed over this exhibition, yet its reflections are keep on echoing in Cyprus. This exhibition was a result of…
Woman Touch To The Stone: An Original Exhibition Which Has Never Seen Before
‘Women of Lace- Giving Birth’ An Exhibition by Turkish Cypriot Artist: Sezin Boğaç On 7th of May 2010, Turkish Cypriot artist Sezin Boğaç opened her first solo-exhibition named “Women of Lace-Giving Birth” at İsmet Vehit Güney Art Center in Nicosia/ Cyprus. In order to tell the secret dreams, hopes and wishes of many women which…
Visiting A Hero of Architecture
“Do not try to be a specialist- just be a person.” Yona Friedman An Architect Between the Utopia and the Reality: Yona Friedman On 13th of November 2010, we made a visit with students of the Academy of Art, Design and Architecture in Prague to Yona Friedman’s studio in Paris. Yona Friedman was excited for…
Inside the Brutal City
I feel like my body is covered with silver while night is falling into my heart. If you are on the surface and your love is at the bottom; that means you exaggerate yourself, and you are close to losing your love. This time it will be different. You are the only unusual thing in…
City Crashes!
AN AWAKENED CITY! The spot where your body starts and ends is the spot where this city starts and ends…. The shadow was growing… the energy was coming out from the crashes… There were car crashes… airplane crashes… city crashes! The blood and steel were unifying as they had never come together in this way…
Towards a new city
FIRST SKETCHES I was thinking about a new place for the characters of the Crash movie… These people were unsettled, displaced, incompatible people who lives outside of the circle! My first sketch was as follows: Somehow I thought that this new city must be attached to the existing one. However there was only a very…
A film analysis: Step by step to the ‘Brutal City’
THE ‘CRASH’ MOVIE I cannot remember how many times I have watched this film! I make many sketches every time I watch it, trying to analyze even the smallest signs within it. These efforts have later helped me develop my project. The VideoDrome of David Cronenberg This was another crazy movie by Cronenberg, which shares…
Brutal City- The Beginning
THE MOST DANGEROUS ORGANISM OF THE NEW-RELIGION -BRUTAL CITY- Book: ‘Crash’ written by James Ballard Film: ‘Crash’ by my all time favorite director David Cronenberg. In the post-technology age, the understanding has changed, such as a street man cannot comprehend anything that does not have a mediatic twin. In my view, simulation represents its originality,…
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