Avanoğlu / Navigating into a venture of a research on an architecture without verticals

Navigating into a venture of a research on an architecture without verticals

Author: İpek Avanoğlu, Istanbul Technical University; KU Leuven

Supervisor: Aslıhan Şenel, Istanbul Technical University

Research stage: Intermediate doctoral stage

Category: Paper

DDR Statement

Common to the design driven research projects, my research project defines a process of learning from making. In my research, I make through drawing, model-making, allegorical writing and misreading. The process of making offers me openings of tacit articulations of knowledge from a network of personal associations. I argue that this process bears resemblance to a venture into ‘waves’ of sea where I cannot easily separate one wave from another (fig. 9). Design driven research strategically provides access to my own medium of knowledge. It, thus, opens up spaces in practice and theory for personalized tools of learning. This way, a design driven research project subverts top-down learning processes and offers an alternative immediacy to knowledge.

This alternative immediacy to knowledge evokes Cixous’s discussion on “getting to know seeing-with-the-naked-eye.” 1. This immediacy cares for and open space to personal experiences in exploring critical knowledge in academic work.

  1. Cixous, Hélène (2001): >>Savoir<<, in: Hélène Cixous/J. Derrida, Veils, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, pp. 1-16. (Original work published in 1998 by Editions Galilée.)