SpacePol Ankara Event: Being or Becoming a Capital City Day 2 @ Ankara Kent Konseyi

Our SpacePol Ankara event allowed us to address the symbolic and political production of urban space in Ankara and its impact on the urbanisation and the morphology of the city as well as on the everyday life of inhabitants.We discussed two periods: the early republican era and the AKP era in terms of urbanisation models and power relations and struggle between various actors (public and private). We shed light on the current problems of the city related to the conflictual urbanisation models and to the absence of a consistent urbanisation programme. The final question discussed was the place and the role of inhabitants in this process. How do they deal with this chaotic scene of urbanisation? What are their survival strategies and tools to adapt and create their own perceived space inthe sense of Lefebvrian theory?

Table of Contents:
00:00 Welcome speech: Prof. Dr. Savaş Zafer Şahin, Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi
12:05 Panel 3: Production, Space, Culture and Innovation
13:26 Prof. Dr. Çiğdem Varol, Gazi University “The Transformation Story of Kızılay, the Square of the Capital City
56:10 Prof. Dr. Bülent Gülçubuk, Ankara University “Rural Development in Ankara"
01:30:05 Özgür Ceren Can, Director of Ankara Rahmi Koç Museum “The juxtaposition of cultural heritage and contemporary public art in the Аnafartalar Bazaar"
01:58:30 Prof. Dr. Burcu Özüduru, Gazi University “The Relationship of Shopping Malls and Consumption Culture with the City in Ankara”
02:51:27 Panel 4: Young Researchers Panel
02:55:25 Agathe Fautras, PhD Candidate, IFEA Researcher, Sorbonne University “Ordinary and Exceptional Urban Planning in the Capital City: The Case of Altındağ District”
03:15:08 Sibel Akyıldız, PhD Candidate, Yeditepe University Researcher “The Place and Transformation of Atatürk Forest Farm within the Ankara Political System”
03:48:58 Kadir Yavuz Emiroğlu, PhD Candidate, University of Minnesota “Human Lives in a Capital City: Encountering the State in Ankara”
Dr, lecturer, Gülşah Aykaç, Marmara University “Çinçin Means Folded Surface: Altındağ's
04:05:35 Unnamed Neighbourhood and the Urban Transformation of the Last Twenty Years”
05:23:00 Concluding Round Table