Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Home is our first real mistake. It is the one error that changes everything, the one lesson you could let destroy you. It is from this moment that we begin to build our home in the world. It is the place that we furnish with smell, taste, a talisman, a name. -1
“Disneyland is presented as imaginary in order to make us believe that the real (i.e the world outside Disneyland) is real., whereas in fact all of Los Angeles and the America surrounding it are no longer real, but of the order of hyperreal and of simulation” -2
Siwelile Mathenjwa
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Unexpected Encounters, The Day I had a conversation with someone I do know.
Unexpected Encounters, The Day I had a conversation with someone I do know.


Dr. Bihter Almac
Bihter AlmaƧ is a designer/researcher of architecture in the other and of the weird. Her research mainly focuses on tactics for peculiar creativities to trespass to the architectural unconscious.
She is a design tutor at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Department of Architecture, Istanbul, Turkey. She received her PhD degree in Architectural Design in the Bartlett School of Architecture, funded by the HEI Turkey and her thesis is titled: Designing in a state of distraction: The Wild Fields of Architecture.
Istanbul, Turkey
14:15 - 14:45