Ahenk Yılmaz works as a professor and the chair at the Department of Architecture of Yaşar University. Yılmaz is dedicated to fostering an intellectually stimulating and supportive learning environment in applied and theoretical courses in architecture drawing on her twenty-five years teaching experience as well as her administrative expertise in coordinating and forming curricular and extracurricular activities in architecture schools. Based on receiving her bachelor (DEU, 1998), master (IZTECH, 2001) and PhD (IZTECH, 2008) degrees in architecture, her research interests revolve around the interaction between architectural design theory and criticism, with a special focus on spatial experience, immersive technologies and digital culture. Yılmaz’s commitment towards innovation and state-of-the-art research underpins her skills and competences as an academician in developing effective and progressive methodologies in learning and scholarly environments through the use of emerging technologies. With her experience in studies through her collaborations with scholars from various collegial backgrounds, Yılmaz undertook transdisciplinary research projects in both national and international scales with different universities and research and development centers. Her research has been published in edited volumes, refereed journals and presented at national and international conferences. Her most recent article “Digital reproducibility in locative media: Atatürk, his mother and women’s rights monument, İzmir,” (co-authored) appeared in Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies (2023).
Journal of Housing and The Built Environment, Feb 8, 2022
This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ball... more This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ballıkuyu neighborhood. For Ballıkuyu, which is one of the oldest districts at the center of Izmir, Turkey, local authorities portrayed a shiny future with a regeneration and development plan that they announced in 2014. Since then, oscillating between hope and despair, the residents of the neighborhood have been waiting for the implementation of this plan, under the pressure of displacement due to both gentrification and the gradual decay of their built environment. With a longitudinal research conducted between 2014 and 2021, this paper aims to get insights into the use of this process as a strategy by local authorities, into its effects on socio-spatial integrity of the built environment and into the potentials that it may hold for the residents. The research methodology depends on semi-structured interviews and site observations that expand over this time period, and integrated with the content analysis of social media posts and news on local newspapers. The study concludes that even though the prolonged waiting process weakens the residents’ sense of agency, place attachment and energy for collective resistance, it is not a stagnant situation, but an active condition which perpetually compels the residents to develop new social and spatial tactics not only for solidarity and better communication, but also for re-appropriating a more livable environment.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Sep 1, 2014
Memorialization on War-Broken Ground: Gallipoli War Cemeteries and Memorials Designed by Sir John... more Memorialization on War-Broken Ground: Gallipoli War Cemeteries and Memorials Designed by Sir John James Burnet focuses on the problems posed by the endeavor to memorialize the Gallipoli campaign of World War I and the memorials designed by the principal architect of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, Sir John James Burnet. The commission’s work in Gallipoli is different from the memorials on the western front not only because its location is on “enemy” land but also because Burnet’s modifications of the commission’s design principles were developed to represent a coherent imperial identity around the world. AhenkYılmaz analyzes these modifications and the motives behind them to demonstrate the process by which the landscape and the stories of the campaign shaped the techniques of commemoration on this war-broken ground.
This research delves into the digital reproductions of a specific monument in locative media empl... more This research delves into the digital reproductions of a specific monument in locative media employing Walter Benjamin’s conceptual framework presented in ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility’. The monument in question, namely, the recently reconstructed and rescaled Atatürk, His Mother and Women’s Right Monument in İzmir, Turkey serves as an exemplary case for examining the reproducibility of monuments within both physical and digital environments. Its significance lies not only in the ongoing political and scholarly debate revolving around the decision of local municipality to undertake its reconstruction, but also in its growing popularity in social media as a consequence of this debate. The analyses of digital reproductions of the monument in the paper are twofold: The first gives insights into the effects of digital reproductions on the aura and authenticity of the monument in locative media. The second focuses on how the local municipality and individual users instrumentalize these productions to perform official and mundane rituals and aestheticize not only their own political agendas but also their everyday life.
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2007
Commemoration of a battle unquestionably is a political act, and thus memorial in a battlefield c... more Commemoration of a battle unquestionably is a political act, and thus memorial in a battlefield constitutes distinct topoi where power crystallizes. Foucault argues that 'exercise of power' always requires 'space' and devotes his pioneer work, Discipline and Punish to the intimate ...
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2023
This research delves into the digital reproductions of a monument in locative media employing Wal... more This research delves into the digital reproductions of a monument in locative media employing Walter Benjamin's conceptual framework presented in 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility'. The monument in question, namely, the recently reconstructed and rescaled Atatürk, His Mother and Women's Right Monument in İzmir, Turkey serves as an exemplary case for examining the reproducibility of monuments within both physical and digital environments. Its significance lies not only in the ongoing political and scholarly debate revolving around the decision of local municipality to undertake its reconstruction, but also in its growing popularity in social media as a consequence of this debate. The analyses of digital reproductions of the monument in the paper are twofold: The first gives insights into the effects of digital reproductions on the aura and authenticity of the monument in locative media. The second focuses on how the local municipality and individual users instrumentalize these productions to perform official and mundane rituals and aestheticize not only their own political agendas but also their everyday life.
This article focuses on the effects of different representation modes of architectural heritage i... more This article focuses on the effects of different representation modes of architectural heritage in augmented reality (AR) applications on remembering. Deterioration of the tangible evidence of architectural heritage compromises not only its visibility in the heritage site, but also its presence in memory. Converging survived features and digitally produced representations of the heritage, AR applications in mobile devices provide the memory of the site with endurance, however what is remembered immensely depends on how the heritage is digitally represented on screen. Conceived as a case study for the method of analysis derived from classical memorizing technique of the art of memory, the ‘[AR]temis’ project, reported in this article, aimed to get insights into the effects of the representational qualities of augmented architectural heritage on remembering and also into future AR projects developed for architectural heritage sites with its original method of analysis to inform design...
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplin... more Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary analysis of the built environment via digital media. Two social housing projects in _ Izmir are chosen as case studies as an initial step to be developed toward a potentially international digital platform. The theoretical premises of the project are based on the renowned cultural theorist Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Triad, which distinguishes between representations of space, representational spaces or spaces of representation, and spatial practices. Following this framework , the collected data are organized in three sections, which are reflected in the digital interface. These are respectively titled, 'implementations', which contains architectural drawings and visual recordings of interviews with the chief architect of the projects; 'perceptions', which includes related texts that are scanned from Web sites, newspapers, journals, and conference proceedings; and 'lived experi-ences', which contains photographs and visual records of on-site interviews with the users of the two housing estates. Users of the digital interface are enabled access to data in each category by means of choosing one of eighty-three related keywords. The latter are derived from the digital analyses of discursive material.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2022
This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ball... more This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ballıkuyu neighborhood. For Ballıkuyu, which is one of the oldest districts at the center of Izmir, Turkey, local authorities portrayed a shiny future with a regeneration and development plan that they announced in 2014. Since then, oscillating between hope and despair, the residents of the neighborhood have been waiting for the implementation of this plan, under the pressure of displacement due to both gentrification and the gradual decay of their built environment. With a longitudinal research conducted between 2014 and 2021, this paper aims to get insights into the use of this process as a strategy by local authorities, into its effects on socio-spatial integrity of the built environment and into the potentials that it may hold for the residents. The research methodology depends on semi-structured interviews and site observations that expand over this time period, and integrated with the content analysis of social media posts and news on local newspapers. The study concludes that even though the prolonged waiting process weakens the residents’ sense of agency, place attachment and energy for collective resistance, it is not a stagnant situation, but an active condition which perpetually compels the residents to develop new social and spatial tactics not only for solidarity and better communication, but also for re-appropriating a more livable environment.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2019
Widespread use of locative media and its integration with social media applications has provided ... more Widespread use of locative media and its integration with social media applications has provided individuals with the new ways of identity practices. Through checking in at locations, uploading still and moving images of/with certain spaces, and adding hashtags to proliferate meanings, space has turned into a stage where self-identities are digitally practiced. Within this context, this article explores the production of space through these practices on Instagram in the case study of Mavibahçe Shopping Center in Izmir, Turkey. The analysis based on questionnaires and digital media surveys targets the converged space of the same digital and physical location of Mavibahçe with the aim of providing insights into the use of space for identity constructions. The study concludes that visitors reproduce space through transmediated identity practices in Instagram in order to demonstrate their affiliations to certain lifestyles as part of their digital habitus. While they perform these acts, they prefer to use the spatial attributes that they favor as the background setting of their spatial self and tag only affirmative hashtags for their spatial experiences along with these representations, which reproduce the space of the chosen architectural settings in the digital media.
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary anal... more Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary analysis of the built environment via digital media. Two social housing projects in _ Izmir are chosen as case studies as an initial step to be developed toward a potentially international digital platform. The theoretical premises of the project are based on the renowned cultural theorist Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Triad, which distinguishes between representations of space, representational spaces or spaces of representation, and spatial practices. Following this framework , the collected data are organized in three sections, which are reflected in the digital interface. These are respectively titled, 'implementations', which contains architectural drawings and visual recordings of interviews with the chief architect of the projects; 'perceptions', which includes related texts that are scanned from Web sites, newspapers, journals, and conference proceedings; and 'lived experi-ences', which contains photographs and visual records of on-site interviews with the users of the two housing estates. Users of the digital interface are enabled access to data in each category by means of choosing one of eighty-three related keywords. The latter are derived from the digital analyses of discursive material.
This article explores the effects of using black on spatial experience by means of phenomenologic... more This article explores the effects of using black on spatial experience by means of phenomenological analysis of its architectural examples with a special focus on Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor. Contrary to the growing interest in the color in contemporary architecture, black rarely found a place in architectural history and in studies on color design. Whereas, the distinct achromatic qualities of the color that appear highly self-contradictory swinging back and forth from absence to presence cover a wide range of potentials to be used in architectural design. Through insights delved into the spatial experience constructed around these qualities, this paper attempts to analyze how black is used as a design element in built environments. This analysis revolves around Zumthor’s pavilion, which stood as a uniform black box on the expanse of green grass of London Kensington Gardens for more than three months in 2011. Encompassing various oppositions, the box built to surround a hortus conclusus, an enclosed garden inside, provided its visitors with a unique spatial experience depending predominantly on the combination of its form, tectonics and the qualities of its color, black. The phenomenological analysis of these qualities manifests that the architect utilized the contradictory characteristics of the color intentionally in order to create a complex and manifold spatial experience for visitors in and out the box. In an interplay of absence and presence, momentary crystallizations of the vision of black provide architects with uncharted opportunities for creative use of color in the design of built environments.
Journal of Housing and The Built Environment, Feb 8, 2022
This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ball... more This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ballıkuyu neighborhood. For Ballıkuyu, which is one of the oldest districts at the center of Izmir, Turkey, local authorities portrayed a shiny future with a regeneration and development plan that they announced in 2014. Since then, oscillating between hope and despair, the residents of the neighborhood have been waiting for the implementation of this plan, under the pressure of displacement due to both gentrification and the gradual decay of their built environment. With a longitudinal research conducted between 2014 and 2021, this paper aims to get insights into the use of this process as a strategy by local authorities, into its effects on socio-spatial integrity of the built environment and into the potentials that it may hold for the residents. The research methodology depends on semi-structured interviews and site observations that expand over this time period, and integrated with the content analysis of social media posts and news on local newspapers. The study concludes that even though the prolonged waiting process weakens the residents’ sense of agency, place attachment and energy for collective resistance, it is not a stagnant situation, but an active condition which perpetually compels the residents to develop new social and spatial tactics not only for solidarity and better communication, but also for re-appropriating a more livable environment.
Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Sep 1, 2014
Memorialization on War-Broken Ground: Gallipoli War Cemeteries and Memorials Designed by Sir John... more Memorialization on War-Broken Ground: Gallipoli War Cemeteries and Memorials Designed by Sir John James Burnet focuses on the problems posed by the endeavor to memorialize the Gallipoli campaign of World War I and the memorials designed by the principal architect of the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, Sir John James Burnet. The commission’s work in Gallipoli is different from the memorials on the western front not only because its location is on “enemy” land but also because Burnet’s modifications of the commission’s design principles were developed to represent a coherent imperial identity around the world. AhenkYılmaz analyzes these modifications and the motives behind them to demonstrate the process by which the landscape and the stories of the campaign shaped the techniques of commemoration on this war-broken ground.
This research delves into the digital reproductions of a specific monument in locative media empl... more This research delves into the digital reproductions of a specific monument in locative media employing Walter Benjamin’s conceptual framework presented in ‘The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility’. The monument in question, namely, the recently reconstructed and rescaled Atatürk, His Mother and Women’s Right Monument in İzmir, Turkey serves as an exemplary case for examining the reproducibility of monuments within both physical and digital environments. Its significance lies not only in the ongoing political and scholarly debate revolving around the decision of local municipality to undertake its reconstruction, but also in its growing popularity in social media as a consequence of this debate. The analyses of digital reproductions of the monument in the paper are twofold: The first gives insights into the effects of digital reproductions on the aura and authenticity of the monument in locative media. The second focuses on how the local municipality and individual users instrumentalize these productions to perform official and mundane rituals and aestheticize not only their own political agendas but also their everyday life.
The International Journal of the Humanities: Annual Review, 2007
Commemoration of a battle unquestionably is a political act, and thus memorial in a battlefield c... more Commemoration of a battle unquestionably is a political act, and thus memorial in a battlefield constitutes distinct topoi where power crystallizes. Foucault argues that 'exercise of power' always requires 'space' and devotes his pioneer work, Discipline and Punish to the intimate ...
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2023
This research delves into the digital reproductions of a monument in locative media employing Wal... more This research delves into the digital reproductions of a monument in locative media employing Walter Benjamin's conceptual framework presented in 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Technological Reproducibility'. The monument in question, namely, the recently reconstructed and rescaled Atatürk, His Mother and Women's Right Monument in İzmir, Turkey serves as an exemplary case for examining the reproducibility of monuments within both physical and digital environments. Its significance lies not only in the ongoing political and scholarly debate revolving around the decision of local municipality to undertake its reconstruction, but also in its growing popularity in social media as a consequence of this debate. The analyses of digital reproductions of the monument in the paper are twofold: The first gives insights into the effects of digital reproductions on the aura and authenticity of the monument in locative media. The second focuses on how the local municipality and individual users instrumentalize these productions to perform official and mundane rituals and aestheticize not only their own political agendas but also their everyday life.
This article focuses on the effects of different representation modes of architectural heritage i... more This article focuses on the effects of different representation modes of architectural heritage in augmented reality (AR) applications on remembering. Deterioration of the tangible evidence of architectural heritage compromises not only its visibility in the heritage site, but also its presence in memory. Converging survived features and digitally produced representations of the heritage, AR applications in mobile devices provide the memory of the site with endurance, however what is remembered immensely depends on how the heritage is digitally represented on screen. Conceived as a case study for the method of analysis derived from classical memorizing technique of the art of memory, the ‘[AR]temis’ project, reported in this article, aimed to get insights into the effects of the representational qualities of augmented architectural heritage on remembering and also into future AR projects developed for architectural heritage sites with its original method of analysis to inform design...
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplin... more Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary analysis of the built environment via digital media. Two social housing projects in _ Izmir are chosen as case studies as an initial step to be developed toward a potentially international digital platform. The theoretical premises of the project are based on the renowned cultural theorist Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Triad, which distinguishes between representations of space, representational spaces or spaces of representation, and spatial practices. Following this framework , the collected data are organized in three sections, which are reflected in the digital interface. These are respectively titled, 'implementations', which contains architectural drawings and visual recordings of interviews with the chief architect of the projects; 'perceptions', which includes related texts that are scanned from Web sites, newspapers, journals, and conference proceedings; and 'lived experi-ences', which contains photographs and visual records of on-site interviews with the users of the two housing estates. Users of the digital interface are enabled access to data in each category by means of choosing one of eighty-three related keywords. The latter are derived from the digital analyses of discursive material.
Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2022
This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ball... more This paper explores the process of waiting in temporalities of gentrification in the case of Ballıkuyu neighborhood. For Ballıkuyu, which is one of the oldest districts at the center of Izmir, Turkey, local authorities portrayed a shiny future with a regeneration and development plan that they announced in 2014. Since then, oscillating between hope and despair, the residents of the neighborhood have been waiting for the implementation of this plan, under the pressure of displacement due to both gentrification and the gradual decay of their built environment. With a longitudinal research conducted between 2014 and 2021, this paper aims to get insights into the use of this process as a strategy by local authorities, into its effects on socio-spatial integrity of the built environment and into the potentials that it may hold for the residents. The research methodology depends on semi-structured interviews and site observations that expand over this time period, and integrated with the content analysis of social media posts and news on local newspapers. The study concludes that even though the prolonged waiting process weakens the residents’ sense of agency, place attachment and energy for collective resistance, it is not a stagnant situation, but an active condition which perpetually compels the residents to develop new social and spatial tactics not only for solidarity and better communication, but also for re-appropriating a more livable environment.
Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 2019
Widespread use of locative media and its integration with social media applications has provided ... more Widespread use of locative media and its integration with social media applications has provided individuals with the new ways of identity practices. Through checking in at locations, uploading still and moving images of/with certain spaces, and adding hashtags to proliferate meanings, space has turned into a stage where self-identities are digitally practiced. Within this context, this article explores the production of space through these practices on Instagram in the case study of Mavibahçe Shopping Center in Izmir, Turkey. The analysis based on questionnaires and digital media surveys targets the converged space of the same digital and physical location of Mavibahçe with the aim of providing insights into the use of space for identity constructions. The study concludes that visitors reproduce space through transmediated identity practices in Instagram in order to demonstrate their affiliations to certain lifestyles as part of their digital habitus. While they perform these acts, they prefer to use the spatial attributes that they favor as the background setting of their spatial self and tag only affirmative hashtags for their spatial experiences along with these representations, which reproduce the space of the chosen architectural settings in the digital media.
Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary anal... more Digitizing Lefebvre's Spatial Triad is conceived as a seed project for an interdis-ciplinary analysis of the built environment via digital media. Two social housing projects in _ Izmir are chosen as case studies as an initial step to be developed toward a potentially international digital platform. The theoretical premises of the project are based on the renowned cultural theorist Henri Lefebvre's Spatial Triad, which distinguishes between representations of space, representational spaces or spaces of representation, and spatial practices. Following this framework , the collected data are organized in three sections, which are reflected in the digital interface. These are respectively titled, 'implementations', which contains architectural drawings and visual recordings of interviews with the chief architect of the projects; 'perceptions', which includes related texts that are scanned from Web sites, newspapers, journals, and conference proceedings; and 'lived experi-ences', which contains photographs and visual records of on-site interviews with the users of the two housing estates. Users of the digital interface are enabled access to data in each category by means of choosing one of eighty-three related keywords. The latter are derived from the digital analyses of discursive material.
This article explores the effects of using black on spatial experience by means of phenomenologic... more This article explores the effects of using black on spatial experience by means of phenomenological analysis of its architectural examples with a special focus on Serpentine Gallery Pavilion designed by Peter Zumthor. Contrary to the growing interest in the color in contemporary architecture, black rarely found a place in architectural history and in studies on color design. Whereas, the distinct achromatic qualities of the color that appear highly self-contradictory swinging back and forth from absence to presence cover a wide range of potentials to be used in architectural design. Through insights delved into the spatial experience constructed around these qualities, this paper attempts to analyze how black is used as a design element in built environments. This analysis revolves around Zumthor’s pavilion, which stood as a uniform black box on the expanse of green grass of London Kensington Gardens for more than three months in 2011. Encompassing various oppositions, the box built to surround a hortus conclusus, an enclosed garden inside, provided its visitors with a unique spatial experience depending predominantly on the combination of its form, tectonics and the qualities of its color, black. The phenomenological analysis of these qualities manifests that the architect utilized the contradictory characteristics of the color intentionally in order to create a complex and manifold spatial experience for visitors in and out the box. In an interplay of absence and presence, momentary crystallizations of the vision of black provide architects with uncharted opportunities for creative use of color in the design of built environments.
10th INTERNATIONAL “COMMUNICATION IN THE WORLD CONGRESS PROCEEDINGS BOOK, 2023
Bu çalışma, dijital teknolojilerin sunduğu olanakların etkisiyle dönüşen kamusal mekân ve kentli ... more Bu çalışma, dijital teknolojilerin sunduğu olanakların etkisiyle dönüşen kamusal mekân ve kentli ilişkisine, bu dönüşen ilişkinin yeni kavramları ve bu kavramların kamusal mekân kuramları içerisindeki yerine odaklanır. Her gün ortaya konan yenilikler ile gelişen bilgi ve iletişim teknolojileri kentlilerin gündelik hayat pratiklerini doğrudan veya dolaylı biçimde etkilemektedir. Artık neredeyse aralıksız bir biçimde “bağlantı halinde” olmaya dayanan bu yeni pratikler, beraberlerinde mekân, birey ve toplum ilişkisini de dönüştürmekte ve bu dönüşümü tanımlamaya yönelik yeni kavramlar ortaya çıkmaktadır. Bu kavramları anlamak, bugünün kamusal mekânının toplum tarafından nasıl yeniden üretildiğini açıklayabilmek adına önem taşır, çünkü bu değişimin okunması, yaşanan paradigma kaymalarını da gözler önüne serecektir. Bu çalışma, ilk olarak dijital çağdaki her teknolojik ilerleme ile yeniden üretilen dijital medya, kent ve kentli ilişkisini kamusal mekân merceğinden ele alacaktır. Ardından, analogdan dijitale, sabit bir konumdan ağın hareketli bir parçası olmaya evirilen bu bağlama ilişkin literatürde öne çıkan “konumsal medya,” “artırılmış mekân,” “hibrit mekân,” “net yerelliği” ve “fonör” gibi kavramlara odaklanacaktır. Çalışmanın ana amacı, bu kavramların, kökleri antik döneme dayandırılan ve pek çok farklı epistemolojik bağlama dallanarak günümüze ulaşan kamusallık tartışmaları içerisindeki konumunu tariflemek ve güncel kamusal mekân kuramları ile ilişkilerini tanımlamaktır. Disiplinler arası bir kavram olan kamusallık ile bu dijital çağ kavramlarının ilişkilendirilmesi ise kamusal-özel mekân ikiliği üzerinden değerlendirilecektir. Dijital çağın kavramlarına kamusal mekân merceğinden bakan bu çalışma, kentsel mekân ve medya ilişkisinin hızla değiştiği günümüzde, güncel durumun detaylı bir okumasını gerçekleştirerek, dijital ve fiziksel mekân ilişkisinin dönüşümüne odaklanan çalışmalara yeni bir çerçeve sunacaktır.
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kaymalarını da gözler önüne serecektir. Bu çalışma, ilk olarak dijital çağdaki her teknolojik ilerleme ile yeniden üretilen dijital medya, kent ve kentli ilişkisini kamusal mekân merceğinden ele alacaktır.
Ardından, analogdan dijitale, sabit bir konumdan ağın hareketli bir parçası olmaya evirilen bu bağlama ilişkin literatürde öne çıkan “konumsal medya,” “artırılmış mekân,” “hibrit mekân,” “net yerelliği” ve “fonör” gibi kavramlara odaklanacaktır. Çalışmanın ana amacı, bu kavramların, kökleri antik döneme dayandırılan ve pek çok farklı epistemolojik bağlama dallanarak günümüze ulaşan kamusallık tartışmaları içerisindeki konumunu tariflemek ve güncel kamusal mekân kuramları ile ilişkilerini tanımlamaktır. Disiplinler arası bir kavram olan kamusallık ile bu dijital çağ kavramlarının ilişkilendirilmesi ise kamusal-özel mekân ikiliği üzerinden değerlendirilecektir. Dijital çağın kavramlarına kamusal mekân merceğinden bakan bu çalışma, kentsel mekân ve medya ilişkisinin hızla değiştiği günümüzde, güncel durumun detaylı bir okumasını gerçekleştirerek, dijital ve fiziksel mekân ilişkisinin dönüşümüne odaklanan çalışmalara yeni bir çerçeve sunacaktır.