{"id":17016,"date":"2026-09-17T18:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T15:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aura-istanbul.com\/?page_id=17016"},"modified":"2026-09-18T10:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T07:41:31","slug":"open-call-making-and-urban-2026","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/aura-istanbul.com\/index.php\/open-call-making-and-urban-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Call | Mak\u0131ng and Urban: Hybr\u0131d Pract\u0131ces \u0131n H\u0131stor\u0131cal C\u0131ty Fabr\u0131c"},"content":{"rendered":"

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OPEN CALL<\/h3>\n

MAKING AND URBAN: Hybrid Practices in Historical City Fabric\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]Making and Urban: Hybrid Practices in Historical City Fabric is a workshop about documenting the spaces where a city makes things: the hans of the Historical Peninsula and Karak\u00f6y, ranging from Ottoman-era buildings to more recent examples from the 1980s and 1990s, before they’re converted, restored beyond recognition, or lost. These are buildings under real pressure: from tourism, from redevelopment, from simple neglect.<\/p>\n

The workshop is built around a genuine skill-building exercise for students: hands-on practice with concepts and methods for reading and seeing the city that go beyond standard architectural survey, drawing on the organizers’ ongoing research into these spaces.<\/p>\n

The method is called living documentation<\/strong>: recording a building not as a fixed artifact but as something still in use, still changing hands, still being adapted. For this workshop, the focus narrows further: not the han as a building, but the traces of life still active inside it, including the routines, the workshops, and the small daily practices that keep it running. It’s less a measured survey than a storytelling exercise, using architectural representation tools to tell that story.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]2026 Fall Semester Workshop<\/strong><\/p>\n

Design Tutors:<\/b>
\nEcem Ergin
\nCamille Chabrol<\/p>\n

Dates:<\/strong> 9\u201311 October 2026 (3 days)
\nLocation:<\/strong> Istanbul, T\u00fcrkiye
\nOpen to:<\/strong> Undergraduate students in their second year or above, graduate students, and recent graduates from any institution or country
\nLanguage:<\/strong> English
\nCost:<\/strong> Free to attend. Participants are responsible for their own travel and accommodation expenses.
\nCapacity:<\/strong> 12\u201316 participants
\nCertificate:<\/strong> Participants who attend the full program and actively engage in all sessions will receive a certificate of participation from AURA Istanbul.<\/p>\n

Application deadline:<\/strong> 30 September 2026, 23:59 (GMT+3)
\nInterviews:<\/strong> Shortlisted applicants will be interviewed online via Zoom on 5 October 2026.
\nResults announced:<\/strong> 5 October 2026[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_single_image image=”17035″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”42px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1789652764764{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Des\u0131gn Tutors<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Ecem Ergin<\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Ecem Ergin is an architect, photographer, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in Istanbul. She holds a PhD in Architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL, an MS in Architecture from Pratt Institute, and a BArch from Istanbul Technical University. She has been an Honorary Research Fellow at the Bartlett and a visiting researcher at the Yale School of Architecture. Her work spans urban history, heritage, and visual and experimental methods.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_single_image image=”17053″ alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n

Cam\u0131lle Cabrol<\/h5>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Camille Chabrol is an independent researcher and urban designer based in London. She is currently a Senior Urban Designer at Prior + Partners. She holds an MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies from the University of Cambridge, an M.Arch from the Yale School of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Philosophy from McGill University. She has worked in New York City, Montreal, Cairo, and Brussels. Her research focuses on the adaptive reuse of industrial spaces.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24″][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”48px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1789470238243{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

PROGRAM<\/strong><\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]Students work in pairs throughout the workshop.<\/p>\n

Day 1, Oct. 9: Seminar & site visit<\/strong>
\nMorning: a seminar at AURA’s studio with Ecem Ergin and Camille Chabrol, introducing the living-documentation method and this workshop’s brief \u2014 documenting life, not building. Afternoon: site visit to a han in the Historical Peninsula or Karak\u00f6y han districts.<\/p>\n

Day 2, Oct. 10: Studio at AURA Istanbul<\/strong>
\nA full working day in AURA’s studio, developing the material gathered on site into a final set of images \u2014 using methods such as selective drawing, photo surgery, and storyboarding to turn observed traces of daily life into an architectural narrative. Photo surgery is done digitally (image manipulation and drawing software, or increasingly AI tools) \u2014 students interested in working with AI tools will be given guidance on using them for this exercise.<\/p>\n

Day 3, Oct. 11: Open crit with guests<\/strong>
\nPairs present their work in an open crit with AURA and invited guests.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_single_image image=”17036″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_single_image image=”17037″][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/3″][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_single_image image=”17038″][vc_empty_space height=”32px”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”48px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1789656920807{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

Workshop Overv\u0131ew<\/h3>\n

[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”12px”][vc_column_text]Why This Workshop?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For students, it’s a chance to sharpen representation skills while learning to read a city in more detail, and to see firsthand how daily-life practices shape a building most people only look at from the outside. Keeping it to three intensive days, on one place and one method, is deliberate: enough time to go deep, not so much that it stops being sharp.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]What Students Get out of It?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Sharper architectural representation skills, put to storytelling instead of pure measurement<\/span><\/li>\n
  • A more detailed way of reading the urban fabric \u2014 attentive to use and inhabitation, not just form<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Direct exposure to daily-life practices inside a living heritage building<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Practice translating ephemeral, non-architectural evidence \u2014 routines, traces, encounters \u2014 into visual and architectural narrative<\/span><\/li>\n
  • Experience with selective drawing, digital\/AI-assisted photo surgery, and storyboarding as documentation methods<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    [\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Who Should Apply?<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Open to students and recent graduates in architecture, interior architecture, landscape design, urban design, and related fields:
    \n\u2022 Undergraduate students (second, third, or fourth year)
    \n\u2022 Graduate students
    \n\u2022 Recent graduates
    \nFamiliarity with these particular methods is not necessary, but good-to-moderate skill with design drawing and photo manipulation software is required. A mixed group, in year, background, and discipline, is welcomed.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”24px”][vc_column_text]Practical Details<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • Venue: AURA Istanbul’s studio (seminar + studio days) and a han site (site visit) \u2014 see Program above<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Materials: students bring their own camera or phone, and a laptop with image manipulation and drawing software (or AI tools, with guidance provided on the latter) \u2014 AURA is not able to provide shared computers or software, so applicants should have access to their own equipment<\/span><\/li>\n
    • Output: each pair produces a set of images, presented at the Day 3 open crit and contributed as documentation material to the ongoing research<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

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      Select\u0131on Process<\/strong><\/h3>\n

      [\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][box_feature title=”STEP 1 \u2014 APPLICATION” type=”pixelegant” icon_pixelegant=”icon_documents_alt”]The evaluation process will begin after the application deadline. You will be notified by email on 2 October 2026 whether you have passed the preliminary evaluation.[\/box_feature][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][box_feature title=”STEP 2 \u2014 INTERVIEW” type=”pixelegant” icon_pixelegant=”icon_chat_alt”]Interviews will be held online via Zoom on Monday, 5 October 2026.
      \nApplicants who pass the preliminary evaluation will be contacted by phone on Friday, 2 October 2026 and informed of their interview time. Applications will be evaluated again following the interviews.[\/box_feature][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″][box_feature title=”STEP 3 \u2014 FINAL RESULTS” type=”entypo” icon_entypo=”entypo-icon entypo-icon-graduation-cap”]All interviewed applicants will be notified of the final result by email on 5 October 2026.[\/box_feature][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”48px”][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1789653320308{margin-bottom: 50px !important;}”]<\/p>\n

      Requ\u0131red Documents<\/b><\/h3>\n

      [\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]– CV\u00a0<\/strong>
      \n– Portfolio, <\/strong>or 3\u20135 images of relevant work \u2014 drawings, photographs, collage, or other visual\/documentary practice (student work is fine; unfinished work is fine)
      \n– Statement of Interest: <\/strong>why this workshop, why this method, why now
      \n– English Language Proficiency\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>
      \n(Native English speakers are not required to submit proof of English language proficiency.)
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