What a space remembers, and who it remembers for.
Essays on memory, collective consciousness and what a museum is actually for. Written in Turkish and published on Substack; read here in English translation, with the original a click away.
The Memory of Space
Spaces have memory — not in a metaphysical sense, but a cognitive one. From the cultural capital we are born into, through the Black Rod ceremony at Westminster and the ninety-five per cent of a collection nobody sees, to what a carbon-based cognitive system leaves the generations after it.
Translated from “Mekanın Hafızası”
Space and Social Consciousness
A society is the product of a longer time than any single life. On historical consciousness as the thing that separates us from other creatures, and on why — in an age that can calculate every alternative — the design of space needs the human touch more than ever.
Translated from “Mekan ve Toplumsal Bilinç”