IFLA 60th World Congress, CODE RED for Earth
The Walk of Landscape
Architecture between Academia and Profession: “on” experience
"The presentation
assumes that there is an urgent need for calling a balance between our cities
and natural existences, between theory and practice of landscape architecture,
and of course between new designs and registered environments. The gaps of
those peripheries have raised tremendously in recent years due to legislative
and strategic misleading, and ignorance in Turkey, particularly, when project
implications have started to be produced independent of shared knowledge
domain. This is a very critical issue for university education as well.
It is needed to
achieve and learn ‘the awareness’ again, and we require to use existing
knowledge properly to create multi-functional and identifiable spaces, timeless
projects, sustainable, and resilient places. Now, this can be thoroughly said
that urban design has been turned into a race against time and a test of
superficial quality, instead of prioritizing a pioneer role in the knowledge of
multi-layered and complex proposals for existing cities, historical environments,
and landscape restorations, especially in nature-preservation areas where
transdisciplinary actions are required.
The firm of “on” and
its team aims to always be on the balance beam for academic and professional
approaches. The major intention behind the establishment of this office was to
contribute to landscape architecture in Turkey and to have a competence on
interface of landscape and urban design. The talk will dwell upon major
subjects, headlines, concerns, and projects of the office via urban landscape
and spaces, and criticism of non-urban design. Since “on” has been found there
has been a principle of ecology and having a balance between city and nature,
projects have been designed accordingly, reminding nature for urban milieu both
as scope and scale. Therefore, it can be said that ‘on tasarım’ is a leading
figure in landscape architecture in Türkiye."