VIRTUAL: Prague Heritages
Abstract
This study examines the “Cürek Mining Settlement” designed for the iron ore pit workers in Sivas-Divriği, which was one of the 20th-century worker settlements in Turkey. Settlement, demonstrates the iron ore pit workers who were the previous users of this settlement showed a sensitivity to protecting this place from destruction, which is an exceptional behavior in Turkey. Instead, the local community living in the village near this site wanted the settlements to be destroyed since they thought it damaged their living environment. In brief, central and local government and the titleholder, who can be defined as the actors of the process, and the stakeholders, including the previous users and local community, had different views regarding the future of the site. This paper seeks an answer regarding how to carry this heritage into the future without disregarding these opposite perspectives about the conservation of the Settlement. Within this context, the first part of the paper presents the strengths and weaknesses of the authorized heritage discourse and legal regulations in Turkey for the conservation of the industrial heritage site. The second part defines all actors and stakeholders in the process of conserving the Cürek and analyzes their views regarding the industrial heritage site within the framework of critical heritage studies and a human-based preservation perspective. Finally, discussions are presented regarding how the evaluation and analysis results could be transferred more comprehensively into the implementation processes. In conclusion, this paper specifies an analyses approach regarding understanding and evaluating the completely different perspectives of all actors and stakeholders within the conservation process.
Gulhayat Kilci has been working as a research assistant at Gazi University Faculty of Architecture since 2015. She completed her master’s on Conservation and Restoration Program in Architecture at Gazi University, Turkey (2017). She is currently conducting her Ph.D. study in the same program. Her doctoral research investigates conservation of industrial heritage areas and value-based conservation. She was a visiting researcher at University of California, Berkeley (UCB) in the 2019-2020 academic year. P
Dr. Esra Özkan Yazgan received her Ph.D. in architecture at Gazi University in 2012. She received her master’s degree from the same institution and her bachelor’s degree from the Department of Architecture at Uludag University in Turkey. She has been involved in a variety of conservation and restoration projects. She researched the industrial heritage of the South Chicago area at Penn State University as a post-doctoral researcher between August 2012 and January 2013. Dr. Özkan Yazgan is currently working as an instructor in the Gazi University Faculty of Architecture. Her research interests include the conservation of architectural heritage, adaptive reuse of historic buildings, and urban regeneration.
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Friday 30th June, 2023