Competition submission: Tallin Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019 Satellite Programme, Open Call: Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty
Design submission for Tallin Architecture Biennale (TAB) 2019 Satellite Programme, Open Call: Beauty Matters: The Resurgence of Beauty "Scratch-off: Unmasking a city" Esen Gökçe Özdamar Format: An exhibition in a gallery We approach buildings and spaces with a certain expectation or impulse, such as meeting, seeing, being seen, and gazing. We expect buildings to receive, accept, or communicate with a sensory response. This surprising moment, encountered in the language of space and space, cannot be projected from the viewer’s eye. As our cities are increasingly becoming homogeneous in a globalizing world, the discovery of spaces and discourses brings us all to a label and narrative city. In such a world, spaces become no longer alive shaped by their “makeup” narratives which drags away inhabitants. Therefore, scratch-off city creates an interface to the expectations and assumptions of the viewers by unmasking the issues of beauty and aest...