istanbul technical university, faculty of architecture | '25-'26 fall semester
first-year design studio, common module MIM & EUT | oct.27 - nov.14 , 2025
This common module focuses on how design practices can intersect through everyday rituals, explored through micro-spatial and material explorations together. This module seeks to explore delicate, (un)familiar tectonics of quotidian life, and to engage with the amaze of ‘ordinary’ narratives of space and materials in design processes.
This module creates a potential collaboration ground between Industrial Design and Architecture students, through daily workshops, guest lectures, and site-visits to Istanbul Biennale exhibitions. This module will guide students to act as detectives of everyday life, making meticulous (individual and collective) recordings of rituals and their ‘ordinary’ and ‘negligible’ agencies. This module also opens to discussion, ways of spatialization and mediation quotidian living makes-with, exposing multiple agencies of design.
eut instructor team /
pelin efilti, meltem maralcan gülmen, kübra dolap yıldız, ferda özdülger, zeynep serra akman
mim instructor team /
ozan önder özener, ipek avanoğlu, erenalp büyütopcu, emirhan kurtuluş, bender uğurlu
eut students team/
Abdulkadir Karahalilöz, Ahmet Kağan Korucu, Alara Özkuşlar, Ali Ürgün, Arda Yiğit
Ulupınar, Aslı Nur Şahin, Ayça Orhan, Aysu Akbulut, Ayşe Aydın, Ayşe Bektaş, Ayşe Naz
Atıcı, Ayşegül Saraçoğlu, Belgin Korkut Aydın, Berfin Irmak Candan, Beril Yıldız, Betül Eslem Çetin, Betül Zehra Görmez, Beyza Abiç, Cihat Doğru, Defne Bilge Hangişi, Defne Sarı, Defne Yıldız, Deniz Cem Köse, Duru Bozdoğangil, Eda Karaağaç, Elif Çaltılı, Elif Düzenli, Elif Ece Mercan, Elif Nilgün Şamlı, Elif Sena Sürmeli, Eylül Leyla Sarı, Fatma Nur Kanıkuru, Fatma Sude Şahin, Güz Bölük, Hacile Şahin, Hande Sağlam, Hesna Kan, Hilal Sarıhan, Irmak Karaaslan, İdil Alim, İlayda Sanyer, İlke Barış Demir, İpek Baykara, Lara Hevin Doğan, Mahmut Çetinkaya, Mohammed S. M. A. Negm, Muhammed Mirza Balkan, Nadile Hazar, Nazlı Haşimoğlu, Nisanur Çiftci, Nona Nemati, Reyhan Memiş, Sami Yusuf Budak, Seher İkra Öklü, Sena Durgut, Sevgi Nur Güneş, Sıla Baymış, Simanur Aslan, Siren Işık, Süleyman Emre Eşit, Tibet Corak, Yağız Yaman, Yağmur Yapıcı, Zehra İkbal Altuntaş, Zeynep Erdem, Zeynep Naz Hereke, Zeynep Şahin, Zeynep Üçbaşaran.
mim students team /
Ada Türkkahramanı, Aesha Sherif AbdelFattah Ibrahim Abdelfattah, Ahmet Faruk Yılmaz, Ahmet Oğuz Koçyiğit, Ahmet Talha Ulak, Ahmet Turaç Tosun, Alaz Zeren, Arda İyiol, Arda Kutlar, Avşin Kızıltaş, Ayşe Zeynep Özdil, Azra Yıldız, Başak Başkaya, Begüm Çetinkaya, Beren Ölkebaş, Beyza Arca, Burcu Uysalar, Bülent Berkay Kök, Büşra Kerimoğlu, Ceren Deniz Tanrıverdi, Ceren Sayğılı, Ceyda Aydın, Danial Mohaghegi, Danzin Ikhundov Gurjav, Darya Ahmedi, Darya Firsova, Defnenaz Öztürk, Deniz Saygın, Deniz Yıldız, Duru Çavdar, Duru Çelik, Dürdanenur Aşlayıcı, Ecenur Muço, Eda Çubukçu, Efe Berk Ayyıldız, Efe Emir Altun, Efe Eryiğit, Ekrem Osman Çebi, Elif Defne Ök, Elif Erbaşı, Elif Türkyılmaz, Elif Yılmaz, Emira Elif Yılmaz, Emirhan Halil Kaşlı, Engin Turanlı, Esmanur Öztürk, Esma Nur Hasan, Esma Nur Tiryaki, Fatma Nur Yılmaz, Hude Elmustafa, Irmak Bekmez, İbrahim Ata Boz, İkra İkbal Aydın, İrem Nil Özgür, Javkhlantugs Enkhbolor, Jora Bekteshi, Kaan Güven, Lara Karabulut, Metin Ercan, Merve Bayrakcı, Metehan Pınar, Miraç Bölükbaş, Muhammet Furkan Yaşar, Mustafa Solmaz, Mümtaz Esad Kapusuz, Mümtaz Somer, Naz Şahin, Nehir Kızılırmak, Nisa Leman, Onur Mete Balcı, Ömer Ayvaz, Ömer Yiğit Efe, Reem Badr Khalifa Ahmed, Reyhan Mayda, Rifat Can Ayaroğlu, Sami Yusuf Çatal, Sera Birmizrahi, Sueda Sena Karaman, Serra Duru Gül, Süleyman Arif Alper, Umut Güler, Vildan Ezgi Yelen, Yağmur Aldı, Yunus Emre Yılmaz, Yusuf Tosun, Zeynep Ada Göğçe, Zeynep Çıkrıkçı, Zeynep Didem Ekşi, Zeynep Eren, Zeynep Hüma Güney, Zeynep Onat.
approaching quotidians: (un)familiar lives in the making
In this project, students are expected to conduct a site visit to Balkapanı Han and its surroundings. During the visit, photogrammetry techniques will be applied to record user interactions. Due to the unique character of the site, the focus will be on the relationships between sellers and buyers. Students should observe and analyze how buyers interact with the variety of goods sold in different shops. The project requires a thorough documentation of the interaction between buyers and the products they purchase. Observations must include which types of products are being bought (e.g., textiles, spices, dried foods, small crafted objects) and how these products are currently being carried, handled, or packaged by the buyers. Special attention should be given to recurring patterns of need, such as carrying multiple small items at once, handling fragile or spillable goods, or accommodating irregularly shaped objects. Students should carefully record not only the physical actions of carrying but also the other aspects of these interactions, like exchange.Based on insights gained from on-site research, students will design a portable carrying unit that facilitates the act of shopping. The design must also incorporate a material discovered on-site.
In this project, students are expected to conduct a site visit to Balkapanı Han and its surroundings. During the site-visit, students will be asked to record daily lives of Balkapanı Han through throrogh observations on actors, their acts and movements, and the spatial elements and objects they interact with. The students should approach the site with care and wonder, observing non-human actors as well as human actors, paying careful attention to their smallest movements and changes in time, recording their spatio-temporal rituals. Students will bring together their recordings by creating an encyclopedia of ‘negligable’s of spatial production to be used for the following steps of this project. This on-site research will be followed by tectonic experiments by model-making in scale 1/50, using collected information during on-site research. Choosing a spatial fragment of 4x4x8m from Balkapanı Han, that includes a spatial ‘threshold’, the students will be asked to dismantle their chosen spatial fragment into tectonic pieces. The students will, then, experiment to assemble these pieces anew by re-imagining new connections and linkages between different pieces by multiplying and manipulating their pieces. During the re-assembling of the pieces, the students will be asked to choose specific ‘negligable’s from the encyclopedia, and produce spaces that operate accordingly with their spatio-temporal rituals. Throughout this project, the students will engage in both individual and collective making. The resulting collective model will be collectively drawn in scale 1/50.
daily life recordings /
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