Circle Seminars continue with a new seminar named ‘Architecture and Cinema: Utopian Cities’ by Işıl Baysan Serim. In order to buy a ticket you can visit our Biletino page.
Architecture and Cinema: Utopian Cities / Işıl Baysan Serim
Instructor: Işıl Baysan Serim (Bahçeşehir University, Faculy of Architecture)
Date: 09-12-14-16 July 2021
Time: 19:00 - 20:30
Duration: 4 Sessions
Attendance: Requires Ticket
Program:
In this seminar, Işıl Baysan Serim - faculty member at Bahçeşehir University, Faculy of Architecture - will discuss how films shape and represent utopian urban imaginations in relation to architecture. We will also examine how films from utopia to dystopia, from technotopia to digitopia, from ecotopia to atopia create mental, spatial and temporal ways of knowing, seeing and acting, and we will also examine the fragility of utopia. In this journey, we will also be thinking about the relationship between cinema, architecture and the city.
Session 1: (07.09.2021)
Avant-garde Modernism and "Imaginations of the Ideal City"
(Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920), L'Inhumaine (1924), Metropolis (1927), Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), Just Imagine (1930) Modern Times (1936), Things to Come (1936) ,
Session 2: (07.12.2021)
Technotopia [Cybernetic Cities, Space Settlements]
(Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924), 1984 (1956), The Time Machine (1960) Fahrenheit 451 (1966), Alphaville (1966) 2001: A Space Odyssey (1967) Dark City (1998) THX 1138 (1971), World on a Wire (1973) Logan's Run (1976), Brave New World (1986) Brazil (1986), The Star Trek (1996) The Fifth Element (1997) Natural City (2003)
Session 3: (07.14.2021)
Dijitopia- [Cyberpunk]
(Tron (1982), Blade Runner (1982) Terminator (1984) Total Recall (1990) Cyber City Oedo 888 (1991) Dark City (1998) EXistanZ (1997) Matrix (1999) The Thirteenth Floor (1999), Thomas in Love (2000) Minority Report (2002) Code 46 (2003) Truman Show, Inception (2010) Renaissance (2006) The Bothersome Man (2006) Elysium (2013) Upgrade (2018)
Session 4: (07.16.2021)
Ecotopia- Atopia [Urban Environment, Anthropocene, Transhumanism]
[Silent Running (1962) La Jetée (1962), Soylent Green (1973), Solaris, Stalker, Gattaca (1997) The Day After Tomorrow, Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Picture of Light (); Gattaca Grizzly Man (2005) Aeon Flux (2005) Safe () Avatar (2009) District 9 (2009) Downstream (2010) The Giver (2014)
Participation:
In order to attend the seminar, you have to buy a ticket through our Biletino page, the link of which is given below. After your registration and purchase on Biletino, you will receive an e-mail that has the necessary Zoom session inofrmation and instructions, before the event.
Işıl Baysan Serim
Architect, Editor
Bahçeşehir University, Faculy of Architecture, part-time Faculty Member
Işıl Baysan Serim
Işıl Baysan Serim Recommends:
Işıl Baysan Serim has prepared a list of recommendations for the seminar attendees and all The Circle followers. The list includes articles, books, movies and panels. You cand find it below.
Panel
Architecture, Cinema and Hegemony / Elif İşleyen
The online seminar by Işıl Baysan Serim help place on Zoom between 09-19 July 2021. One of the participants of the seminar, Elif İşleyen, wrote an article named Architecture, Cinema and Hegemony inspired by the seminar. You can read it in Turkish by clicking it on the button below.