GENDER STUDIES
People
- Assist.Prof. (PhD) Meltem ERANIL DEMİRLİ
- Prof. (PhD) Meltem GÜREL
Ongoing Scientific Research Projects
- Mass Housing in terms of Women Experience: TOKI Uzundere Case, Scientific Research Project, Yaşar University, December 2019 – June 2020
Researchers:
- Assist.Prof. (PhD) Meltem ERANIL DEMİRLİ
- Prof. (PhD) Havva Meltem GÜREL (Advisor)
Summary: As a part of the urban transformation in 2009, people living in Kadifekale were relocated from their homes to new apartment blocks in a mass housing project in Izmir, named TOKI Uzundere. Although these people are not willing to move to these apartment blocks, TOKI Uzundere is represented as a ”perfect solution” by supporting all necessary social and physical conditions to its occupants.
In this context, the research project focuses on the differences between TOKI Uzundere housing units use and their arrangements, under certain gender relationships, as it conducts analysis of women’s use of space and their agency in transformation of space. It also aims at revealing the balance of power in gender, current dominant cultural perceptions, stereotypes and assumptions while examining the spatial tactics of women who reveal the different potentials of the space designed by the blueprint designers. The analysis will show how these spaces differ from each other with the tactics developed by women in accordance with the needs of the user in the housing.
In accordance, it is aimed to shed light on the daily social life of the user and the use of space between the designer and the user in order to develop suggestions that will contribute to the typology of the mass housing project in the architectural field. Besides, it contirubutes to the fields of gender and women’s studies, by raising awareness towards the social (public) and home (private) life of women. The project will be able to guide future design studies on the necessity of diversification of public housing projects that emerge with a uniform architectural identity in the national area by considering the local user profile and socio-cultural structure.