| School/Faculty/Institute | Faculty of Arts, Design and Architecture | ||||
| Course Code | ARC 426 | ||||
| Course Title in English | A Socio-cultural History of Istanbul | ||||
| Course Title in Turkish | İstanbul'un Toplumsal Kültürel Tarihi | ||||
| Language of Instruction | EN | ||||
| Type of Course | Flipped Classroom | ||||
| Level of Course | Advanced | ||||
| Semester | Fall | ||||
| Contact Hours per Week |
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| Estimated Student Workload | 126 hours per semester | ||||
| Number of Credits | 5 ECTS | ||||
| Grading Mode | Standard Letter Grade | ||||
| Pre-requisites |
ARC 202 - Architectural Design IV | INT 202 - Interior Design II ARC 202 - Architectural Design IV | INT 202 - Interior Design II |
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| Co-requisites | None | ||||
| Expected Prior Knowledge | 4 semesters of design studio | ||||
| Registration Restrictions | Only Undergraduate Students | ||||
| Overall Educational Objective | To analyze the socio-cultural and urban history of the Ottoman Istanbul, focusing on the 15th to 20th centuries. | ||||
| Course Description | This course provides a wide framework for the analysis of the urban history of Istanbul focusing on the 15th to 20th centuries. The relation between architecture and politics, daily lives of palace members, dignitaries and regular people from various social strata, leisure, and pleasure, religious practices, ceremonies, time, modernization processes will be some of the topics that will be dealt with. Primary source materials such as archival documents, travel narratives, chronicles, and newspapers will be introduced to the students. Thus, it will be possible to put major architectural monuments within the city into their original socio-cultural context. |
Course Learning Outcomes and CompetencesUpon successful completion of the course, the learner is expected to be able to:1) comprehend the cultural history of the Ottoman Empire from the 15th to 20th century; 2) analyze and interpret some significant primary sources; 3) question concepts that are generally taken for granted such as sacredness, time or leisure and pleasure; 4) discuss topics such as social and cultural structures of the Ottoman Empire; 5) describe large themes over a relatively long span of history. |
| Program Learning Outcomes/Course Learning Outcomes | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1) Ability to read, write and speak effectively in Turkish and English, equivalent to a B2 European Language Passport Level in English. | |||||
| 2) Ability to use information and understanding of the perceptive, experiential and behavioral aspects of human – space relationship as an input of interior design. | |||||
| 3) Ability to re-interpret the Interior Design profession under the light of rapidly changing theories and approaches. | |||||
| 4) Ability to develop a personal and critical perspective towards the design of spaces. | |||||
| 5) Ability to effectively implement interdisciplinary design and research principles into the solution of problems in her/his field. | |||||
| 6) Ability to bring together her/his knowledge and insight obtained from various sources into the design of interior design problems in a creative way. | |||||
| 7) Ability to use the ethical methodology necessary to develop sustainable interior design approaches with the perspective of social responsibility. | |||||
| 8) Ability to access and use knowledge towards the development of interior spaces using materials and products within the scope of sustainability. | |||||
| 9) Ability to use entrepreneurship, creative thinking and leadership skills towards developing innovative interior design approaches. | |||||
| 10) Ability to find solutions to interior design problems by developing interdisciplinary approaches and within the context of local, national and global networks. | |||||
| 11) Ability to present design ideas in visual, verbal and written media as well as ability to share ideas using analog and digital techniques in national and international professional circles. | |||||
| 12) Ability to develop sensitive and sustainable design approaches respecting needs of various users, local and regional values, natural and cultural heritage. | |||||
| 13) Ability to design interiors in an integral fashion with building systems. | |||||
| 14) Ability to determine individual learning needs in order to become an intellectual professional and the ability to connect with national and international professionals as well as groups. | |||||
| 15) Ability to develop interior design proposals that are suitable for national and international standards, professional etiquette, regulations and legal procedures. | |||||
| 16) Ability to keep track of contemporary research, inventions, approaches and technologies in order to develop new ways of thinking and creating. | |||||
| 17) Ability to create a difference through design solutions by defining and evaluating social and spatial problems, ability to make those available to the society. |
| N None | S Supportive | H Highly Related |
| Program Outcomes and Competences | Level | Assessed by | |
| 1) | Ability to read, write and speak effectively in Turkish and English, equivalent to a B2 European Language Passport Level in English. | H | Participation |
| 2) | Ability to use information and understanding of the perceptive, experiential and behavioral aspects of human – space relationship as an input of interior design. | S | |
| 3) | Ability to re-interpret the Interior Design profession under the light of rapidly changing theories and approaches. | S | |
| 4) | Ability to develop a personal and critical perspective towards the design of spaces. | S | |
| 5) | Ability to effectively implement interdisciplinary design and research principles into the solution of problems in her/his field. | H | Presentation |
| 6) | Ability to bring together her/his knowledge and insight obtained from various sources into the design of interior design problems in a creative way. | S | |
| 7) | Ability to use the ethical methodology necessary to develop sustainable interior design approaches with the perspective of social responsibility. | S | |
| 8) | Ability to access and use knowledge towards the development of interior spaces using materials and products within the scope of sustainability. | S | |
| 9) | Ability to use entrepreneurship, creative thinking and leadership skills towards developing innovative interior design approaches. | S | |
| 10) | Ability to find solutions to interior design problems by developing interdisciplinary approaches and within the context of local, national and global networks. | H | Presentation |
| 11) | Ability to present design ideas in visual, verbal and written media as well as ability to share ideas using analog and digital techniques in national and international professional circles. | H | Presentation |
| 12) | Ability to develop sensitive and sustainable design approaches respecting needs of various users, local and regional values, natural and cultural heritage. | S | |
| 13) | Ability to design interiors in an integral fashion with building systems. | S | |
| 14) | Ability to determine individual learning needs in order to become an intellectual professional and the ability to connect with national and international professionals as well as groups. | S | |
| 15) | Ability to develop interior design proposals that are suitable for national and international standards, professional etiquette, regulations and legal procedures. | S | |
| 16) | Ability to keep track of contemporary research, inventions, approaches and technologies in order to develop new ways of thinking and creating. | H | Presentation |
| 17) | Ability to create a difference through design solutions by defining and evaluating social and spatial problems, ability to make those available to the society. | S |
| Prepared by and Date | AYŞE HİLAL UĞURLU , March 2020 |
| Course Coordinator | AKTS1 |
| Semester | Fall |
| Name of Instructor |
| Week | Subject |
| 1) | Introduction and Historical Background |
| 2) | Transforming Constantinople into Konstantiniyye |
| 3) | Life around Imperial Mosques |
| 4) | Coffeehouses and Hamams |
| 5) | Ceremonies I |
| 6) | Ceremonies II |
| 7) | Workshop week |
| 8) | Daily life in Istanbul: 16th -18th centuries |
| 9) | Transportation and daily life: 19-20th centuries |
| 10) | Time & Night Time |
| 11) | Guest Lecturer: to be announced |
| 12) | Guest Lecturer: to be announced |
| 13) | Presentations & Discussion |
| 14) | Presentations & Discussion |
| 15) | Final Assessment Period |
| 16) | Final Assessment Period |
| Required/Recommended Readings | Introduction and Historical Background Suggested readings: - Halil Inalcık, “Istanbul: an Islamic City”, Journal of Islamic Studies, Vol. 1 (1990), 1-23. (https://www.jstor.org/stable/26195665?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents) Also its Turkish translation can be accesed online. - Halil Inalcık, “Istanbul”, TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi. (https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr /istanbul#3-turk-devri) - Zeynep Çelik, “New Approaches to the ‘Non-Western’ City,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians Vol. 58 No. 3 (1999): 374-381. - Janet L. Abu-Lughod, “The Islamic City--Historic Myth, Islamic Essence, and Contemporary Relevance,” International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 19, No. 2 (1987): 155-176. - Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, Beş Şehir (Istanbul: Millî Eğitim Basımevi̇, 1969), esp. 139–260. Transforming Constantinople into Konstantiniyye Required reading: - Kritovoulos, http://macedonia.kroraina.com/en/kmc/kmc_1.htm, 1-95 Suggested readings: - Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Reckoning with an Imperial Legacy: Ottomans and Byzantine Constantinople", in A. Kioussopoulou (ed.), 1453: The Fall of Constantinople and the Transition from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period (Rethymnon, 2005), 23-46. - Robert Ousterhout, “Ethnic Identity and Cultural Appropriation in Early Ottoman Architecture,” Muqarnas 12 (1995): 48–62. - Halil İnalcık, “The Policy of Mehmed II toward the Greek Population of Istanbul and the Byzantine Buildings of the City”, Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 23/24 (1969/1970): 229-249. - Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu, Constantinopolis/Istanbul: Cultural Encounter, Imperial Vision, and the Construction of the Ottoman Capital (University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009). Life around Imperial Mosques Required reading: - Howard Crane, “The Ottoman Sultan's Mosques: Icons of Imperial Legitimacy”, in Irene A. Bierman et al. (eds.), The Ottoman City and its Parts, (New Rochelle, N.Y: A.D. Caratzas, 1991) 173–243. Suggested readings: - Gülru Necipoglu, The Age of Sinan: Architectural Culture in the Ottoman Empire, (London: Reaktion Books, 2005), chapter 3, esp. 115-126. Coffeehouses and Hamams Required readings: - Mehrdad Kia, Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire, (Santa Barbara, California: Greenwood, 2011), 234–46. - Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet, A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), 249–62. - D’Ohsson, 18. Yüzyıl Türkiyesinde Örf ve Adetler, (İstanbul: Tercüman, )39–67. Suggested readings: - Cemal Kafadar, “How Dark is the History of the Night, How Black the Story of Coffee, How Bitter the Tale of Love: The Changing Measure of Leisure and Pleasure in Early Modern Istanbul” in eds. A. Öztürkmen and E. B. Vitz, Medieval and Early Modern Performance in the Eastern Mediterranean (Turnhout: Brepols, 2014). - S. Ralph Hattox, Coffee and Coffeehouses: The Origins of a Social Beverage in the Medieval Near East (Washington, University of Washington Press, 1985), esp. the chapter entitled “Taverns without Wine: The Rise of the Coffeehouse.” - Nina Ergin, “Bathing Business in Istanbul: A Case Study of the Çemberlitaş Hamamı” in Bathing Culture of Anatolian Civilizations: Architecture, History and Imagination, eds. N. Ergin, C. Neumann and A. Singer (Istanbul: Eren Yayınevi, 2007), 143–68. (Available online at author’s academia page.) - Alan Mikhail, “The Hearts Desire: Gender, Urban Space and the Ottoman Coffee House” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi (New York: Tauris Academic Press, 2007), 133–170. Ceremonies I Required reading: - Suraiya Faroqhi, “Ceremonies, Festivals and the Decorative Arts,” in Subjects of the Sultan: Culture and Daily Life in the Ottoman Empire (London: I.B.Tauris, 2005) Suggested readings: - Ünver Rüstem, “The spectacle of legitimacy: The dome-closing ceremony of the Sultan Ahmed mosque”, Muqarnas 33 (2016), 253–344. - Derin Terzioğlu, “The Imperial Circumcision Festival of 1582: An Interpretation”, Muqarnas: An Annual on Islamic Art and Architecture 12 (1995), 84-100. - Nurhan Atasoy, 1582 Surname-i Hümayun: Düğün Kitabı, (İstanbul: Koçbank Yayınları, 1997). Skim. - Esin Atıl, Levni and the Surname: The Story of an Eighteenth Century Ottoman Festival (Istanbul: Koçbank Yayınları, 1999). Skim. - Zeynep Tarım Ertuğ, "The Depiction of Ceremonies in Ottoman Miniatures: Historical Record or a Matter of Protocol?" Muqarnas 27 (2010): 251-75. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25769699. - Erman Harun Karaduman, The Royal Mawlid Ceremonies in The Ottoman Empire (1789-1908), Unpublished Ma Thesis, Bilkent University, 2016 - Babak Rahimi, “Nahils, Circumcision Rituals and the Theatre State,” in Ottoman Tulips, Ottoman Coffee: Leisure and Lifestyle in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Dana Sajdi (New York: Tauris Academic Press, 2007), 90–116. Ceremonies II Required reading: - Hakan T. Karateke, Padişahım Çok Yaşa!: Osmanlı Devletinin Son Yüzyılında Merasimler, (Istanbul: Kitap Yayınevi, 2004; Third expanded printing:Istanbul: İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları, 2017), tba. Daily life in Istanbul: 16th – 18th centuries Required readings: - Carsten Niebuhr, Travels Through Arabia and Other Countries in the East, Performed by M. Niebuhr, Trans. R. Heron, 2 vols. (Perth: Morison Junior, 1799), 1: 8–13 (Available on google books: https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=lHOVF-i_jhQC&hl=en&pg=GBS.PR3) - Antoine Galland, İstanbul'a Ait Günlük Hatıralar (1672-1673), ed. Charles Schefer, trans. Nahid Sim Örik, 2 vols. (Ankara: TTK, 1987), 1: 21–80. Transportation and daily life: 19-20th centuries Required reading: - Zeynep Çelik, The Remaking of Istanbul: Portrait of an Ottoman City in the Nineteenth Century (Berkeley; Los Angeles; London: University of California Press, 1993), 62–103. - K. Mehmet Kentel, “Drawing Cosmopolitan Pera, Drawing on Yusuf Bey’s Caricatures,” in Youssouf Bey: Charged Portraits of Fin-de-Siècle Beyoğlu, ed. B. Öztuncay (Istanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı, 2016), 63–79. Time & Night Time Required reading: - Avner Wishnitzer, “Shedding New Light: Outdoor Illumination in Late Ottoman Istanbul,” in Urban Lighting, Light Pollution and Society, ed. Josiane Meier et al. (London: Routledge, 2014), 66–84. Suggested readings: - Avner Wishnitzer, Reading Clocks Alla Turca: Time and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015) - Avner Wishnitzer, "Into the Dark: Power, Light and Nocturnal Life in 18th Century Istanbul," International Journal of Middle East Studies, 46/3(2014): 513–531. - Avner Wishnitzer, "Eyes in the Dark: Nightlife and Visual Regimes in late Ottoman Istanbul," Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 37, 2 (2017): 245–261. - Nurçin İleri, “Hangi Usul Tenvir: Havagazı mı Elektrik mi?” in İstanbul Araştırmaları Yıllığı, (2018): 205–216. - Nurçin İleri, “Geç Dönem Osmanlı İstanbul'unda Kent ve Sokak Işıkları,” (City and Street Lights in the Late Ottoman Istanbul) Toplumsal Tarih, no. 254, Şubat [2015]: 30–37. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching Methods | The first 1.5 hours of this course will be in lecture format where students will have the chance to read various genres of primary sources. It will be followed by discussions and an inclass activity. | |||||||||||||||
| Homework and Projects | 1 assignment with 2 phases; readings and submission of discussion questions | |||||||||||||||
| Laboratory Work | - | |||||||||||||||
| Computer Use | Yes | |||||||||||||||
| Other Activities | Field Trips | |||||||||||||||
| Assessment Methods |
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| Course Administration |
ugurlua@mef.edu.tr A506 Student participation is essential. 80% attendance is compulsory. Academic Dishonesty and Plagiarism: YÖK Disciplinary Regulation. |
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| Activity | No/Weeks | Hours | Calculation | ||||
| No/Weeks per Semester | Preparing for the Activity | Spent in the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | ||||
| Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 70 | ||
| Homework Assignments | 14 | 4 | 56 | ||||
| Total Workload | 126 | ||||||
| Total Workload/25 | 5.0 | ||||||
| ECTS | 5 | ||||||