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Retro-fitting
Yığın (Leftover)
The Alphabet Song
Plotted Leftovers
Knitting
Human Knitting Installation II
CNC Knitting Installation
Human Knitting Installation I
Finger Knitting
Fabric Computing
Robotics
3DGS + Robotics
Verdant Urban
Overprinting
Design for Additive Manufacturing
Cavity Slab
3DGS Slab
Hybrid Computing
Light Leak
Omnifab
Precise Fit
ML as an Instrument
Unrehearsed Compositions
Computational Narratives
Involuntary Shifts
Homage to Erwin Hauer
Sound Installation #1
ZAP!
Machine perception
Counteralgorithms II
Counteralgorithms I
Movement on film
Sequences
Perceived Space
Exhibition Design
Architecture is Art
Space-making
The Interface
Intrastructure
Regenerating a Flux
ULUSKULTUR
Common Ground
MNMTI
2021 - 2022 Fall
Academic + Individual Work
Year 4 Semester 1
METU Architecture - Digital Design Studio I
Instructors | Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç (studio coordinator)
Emre Erkal
Müge Krusa Yemiscioglu
Ozan Yetkin
Sevval Cologlu
In an ancient Chinese text written by Zhuang Zhou, a tale mentions that Zhuang Zhou once dreamed he was a butterfly “flitting and fluttering around” in his consciousness. As a butterfly, at that moment, he did not know who he was the butterfly or his human self. All of a sudden, he awoke and found he was Zhuang Zhou, “solid and unmistakably human.” However, at that point, he did not know whether he was Zhang Zhou dreaming he was a butterfly or he was a butterfly dreaming he was Zhuang Zhou. In the end, the text wrote that there is necessarily a difference between Zhuang Zhou and he butterfly; and this difference was the transformation of things. This transformation is a change in consciousness between reality and illusion, a constant flux between dreams and awakening that leads the self to change from being unaware of the distinction of things to being aware of the definite distinction between and among things.
As Zhuang Zhou wrote the recollection of transformation is possible through the remembrance of those certain memories of dreams and awakenings, what binds them all together is the collective juxtapositions of memory out of diverse cognitive states. In that sense, the project aims to bind diversified cognitive states of the agents (Zhang Zhou and the butterfly) through overlaying remembrance in all respects, to introduce collective memory as “leverage” to identify the continuous and iterative process of memory recollection through all cognitive states. Actions of awakenings, perceptions of being asleep and epoch of sceneries, sounds in illusion, in the state of dreaming are realized through memory . From being awake to falling asleep, then deep-diving into dreaming, the constant flux, defined as the transformation of things, occurs involuntarily. Memory at the end, as the leverage becomes a concerted path that does not distinguish cognitive states that are defined by the “involuntary shifts!” between them. Throughout this continuous transformation, what is leveraged is the indefinite frontier that distinguishes the certain distinction of entities and the total misperception of them. The leverage is the unified memory path - an iterative junction of perceived consciousness.
Within the project, cycles of memory is defined through cycles of mutations that are computationally defined through the change that the ancient story entitles in a different sense.