Mekan Konuşmaları No:103

Date: November 14, 2023 /  Tuesday

Time: 18:00

Place: Online

Istanbul/Marmara

Earthquake and Resilience

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. H. Tarık Şengül will be our guest in the 103rd episode of Mekan Konuşmaları, hosted by the students of the Graduate Programs in Architecture at İstanbul Bilgi University. The talk will attempt to conceptualize the Istanbul/Marmara Earthquake and the question of becoming a resilient geography against earthquakes through four related elements. In the first iteration, Earthquake/Resilience is defined with reference to the multiple layers of the city (geological-biological-social). In the second iteration, Earthquake/Resilience is approached by pointing to policy dimensions (engineering, planning-architecture, logistics, managerial, social, economic). Thirdly, earthquake/resilience is questioned around the question of scale (neighborhood/metropolitan/regional/national), and as the fourth dimension, earthquake/resilience is evaluated in terms of the actors/institutions it refers to. In the last section, an attempt is made to bring together the four-level analysis around the concept of resilience.

Prof. Dr. H. Tarık Şengül completed his undergraduate studies at METU in the City Planning Department and his graduate studies from the same institution’s Political Science Department. He completed his PhD thesis ‘Hegemony and Urban Space: The Case of the Turkish Capital Ankara’ at Kent University’s Urban Studies Program in the United Kingdom. He is currently department coordinator and lecturer at METU Political Studies and Public Administration Department, also offering courses in METU Urban Policy Planning and Local Governments Department. In addition to his national and international scholarly articles, he has published two books in Turkish from ‘İmge Publishing House: Kentsel Çelişki’ and ‘Muhafazakâr Popülizm’. He has assumed positions as Chairman of the Chamber of City Planners (2008-2010) and The City of Diyarbakır Structural Plan Development Coordinator (2004-5). Lately, he has been working as coordinator for İstanbul Municipality 2050 Vision Action Plan and İstanbul Seismology Supreme Board.

The talk will be in English and is open to everyone.

You can click here to join for the event.