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Goat territories: territorializing landscapes with yörük nomads
Name
Onur Demir
Education degree
Kandidat
Fagfelt
Architecture
Institute
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Program
Urbanism and Societal Change
Year
2025
This project focuses on supporting nomadic communities in southern Turkey by adapting the traditional lifestyle to establish resilient communities in the conflict zones where the nomads are losing access to common lands. Weaving together nomadic spatial practices with energy infrastructure and mines. Proposing a system and architecture that can coexist together.
migration of nomads
According to the nomads, the course of life is as follows: “life ends the road never ends”. This is the simplest expression of the nomad’s sense of immortality. The nomad therefore also does not take property for the dead and does not create cemeteries. We bury them where they gives their lifes to the earth. When you look at life in this way, death is a continuation of migration, is just another form of it. (1)
This is how the narrative and the stories appears around migration and territorializes the future and past.
(1)Özkan Demir and Nur Bakar, ‘Silifke Yörüklerinde Doğum, Evlenme ve Ölüm Gelenekleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma’, Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 1, no. 17843 (10 June 2014): 127, https://doi.org/10.21563/sutad.187113.
Mine collage
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Design statement
This project focuses on supporting nomadic communities in southern Turkey, particularly in conflict-affected zones where nomads have been displaced and pushed off the grid. It aims to preserve and adapt the traditional nomadic lifestyle for the modern day and the future. By examining the intersection of energy infrastructure, mining activities, and nomadic settlement patterns, the project proposes a sustainable system where modern development and nomadic ways of life can coexist and thrive.
mine axo
mine axo
mine plan
mine 2
masterplan
future of mine
market place
goat house
market place
goat house
solar panel
solar panel future
The Royal Danish Academy supports the Sustainable Development Goals
Since 2017 the Royal Danish Academy has worked with the Sustainable Development Goals. This is reflected in our research, our teaching and in our students’ projects. This project relates to the following UN goal(-s)
