m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com
Researcher and practitioner
on cultural, artistic and curatorial grounds.
She is a doctorate researcher at the Arts and Design
PhD program at the Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar. more
Mahsul Vakaları / Yield Events 2024
exhibition
Natives and Displaced Ones
A Fictive Dialogue on Dunes
RENK / TIMBRE
Mahsul [Yield] Project 2022 - ongoing
online platform
curated gatherings
printed publication
Taklak 2022 - ongoing
research and archive
performance
ALAN at Berlin 2022 - 2023
curated gatherings
Unutma Bahçesi 2017 - 2022
The Garden of (not) Forgetting
research
exhibition in İstanbul
exhibition in Fürth / Nürnberg
film
Nevşunema
a Sequence From a Garden
Many Places on the Trial of a Place 2021
printed publication
article series
Hajde 2021 installation and zine
Narrating the Discordant 2022 thesis
Belonging 2018 - 2019 design
Plankton Project 2015 - 2017
urban collective
Gölge Seferihisar
Durak Ovacık
WORKS as an employee
SALT Winter Garden
Visiting Scolars and Guest Artist Offices
Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul
Salt Reading Room
Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast
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Storying Urban Movements: 100% Tempelhofer Feld
Urban research / Institute of European Urbanism, Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography
Urban research / Institute of European Urbanism, Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography
From the closure of Tempelhofer Airport and the field in 2008 till 2014, the field’s opening to public use was a subject of an extensive urban movement that comprised demonstrations, protests, squats, workshops, panels, petitions campaigns and a referendum 2014. A wide range of Berlin residents had been involved in different parts of these urban movements. They demanded democratic decision-making over green space and heritage areas and the preservation of surrounding neighbourhoods from possible gentrification waves. As a result, Tempelhofer Feld is an open urban space for the use of Berliners today and protected by a public law constituted by a regional referendum.
This analysis focused on these urban movements’ story covers the long years of public participation on various levels and its result. It questions how it is narrated and interpreted as an urban heritage by two actor groups involved: citizen initiatives and city officials. Representation and communication via online channels take a vital part in transmitting and narrating meanings in heritage discourse. Citizen blogs and websites are used by the selected stakeholder groups as channels of representation and communication during the Tempelhofer Feld struggle and after the decision. Through narrative analysis, the research focused on the role of these blogs’ and websites’ present pages and archives in an ongoing heritage disagreement.
The analysis also aims to draw new questions regarding the urban heritage as both a source and result of conflicts and stakeholders’ role as producers of narratives of urban heritage. Research is conducted as a guest researcher at Leibniz Institute of Regional Geography with the supervision of Jun.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Daniela Zupan and Dr. Lela Rekhviashvili
Presented at
Internal Colloquium Series, Leibniz Research Institute, Leipzig, Germany, Jan 2021
Guided Research Project Colloquium, Bauhaus University Weimar, April 2021
