Travel Article: “A MELANCHOLY VIEW OF THE WORLD” – Cem Kaptan
As a nine year old boy I found myself crossing my first big border. Geographically being on the other side of a continent seemed so large then but that has since shrunk. Living constantly on a cultural front, trying to matter, adapting but not getting sucked in. You could say it was a constant rhetorical […]
Article: “Privatisation of Council Housing” – Cem Kaptan
Introduction The role of council housing seems to have been distorted over the course of its lifespan. What was once successful social experiment that sheltered many people is now frowned upon and the term “council housing” itself has become a negative word association and the end to the not so easy on the eye, isolated […]
Article: “INSURGENT PUBLIC SPACES: USING THE PROCESS OF INSURGENCE AS AN URBAN DESIGN TOOL” – CEM KAPTAN
Every now and then the traditional use for a carefully planned public space can be disregarded by the people that it was meant for and manipulated by these people to become a new area that carries a new social, spatial or economic dynamic. This emergence can also be interpreted as an insurgent movement that disagrees […]