Land Ledger
Inhabiting the Ignition Patches
K. Özdemir (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
N. Sanaan Bensi – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
O.R.G. Rommens – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
H.D. Ploeger – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
This research is an attempt to understand the formation-deformation patterns of the forest landscape in Manavgat, Turkey, under an intensifying fire regime, and an experiment of a “vegetal proposal” that is shaped by flames. Despite being excluded from forest care and inhabiting the fragile thresholds inside the forest, a decentralized rural counter-practice of villagers that reclaims the forest and adopts its flows is imagined as the extension of current standardized land management activities and ownership.
The “Land Ledger”, situated in one of the burned villages in the 2021 wildfire, positions itself as a dynamic “becoming” by retaining the moments of different fire encounter scenarios as spatial conditions to embrace and appreciate. This approach focuses on the diverse fire timescales of design components, interconnected yet divisible, similar to the “augmented” patches of the forest landscape that contain numerous fractures having unique eco-histories. Recording these cyclical stories of resurgence and destruction, the proposal weaves the (re)organization of the rural art of making together without proximity or a strict frame, this time for inhabiting the ignition zone responsibly.