Kadiköy Public Education Centre
Established in 2006 . Live in Istanbul .
Taking Istanbul as a starting point , the project seeks to establish a platform of optimism by drawing attention to the propositions of ‘ other ’ modernities , and the way they offer multiple ways of reinterpreting contemporary times by gesturing at ‘ other ’ reference points of spatial practices . Based on architectural and urban issues ; the keywords will be participation , innocence , schizophrenia , negotiation , power . “ Innocent Act ” will realize several workshops , discussion events and a library project at “ Kadiköy Halk Egitim Merkezi ” ( Kadiköy Public Education Centre , KAHEM ). The building was built in 1938 in the heart of Kadiköy on the Anatolian side by Rüknettin Güney , one of the leading architects of the early republican era . ‘ Halkevleri ’ ( public houses ) which became one of the most symbolic institutions of the early Turkish republican era functioned as a tool for transmitting the values , principles and ideologies of ‘ modernity ’. From this perspective , ‘ halkevleri ’ were representative institutions of the functionalist view of the republican ideology unfolding in public space , and narrating Turkey ’ s project of modernity . By using the building , studioKAHEM aims to raise innocent actions and questions about the relation between nation-state ideology , modernity and spatial practices , while at the same time experiencing the responses of the building to contemporary happenings .
As a collaborative event , the “ City of Collision ” project by Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets will be integrated to the program in the form of exhibition , book launch and panel discussion .