» Gecekondu neighborhoods: imbricated spaces, interlaced uses »

From a research on four districts of the historical peninsula of Istanbul and a work in progress on gecekondu’s areas, I question relationships and spatial transitions, beyond the legal status of public-private. Re-questioning the inside and the outside, focusing on devices and systems of relationship, the presentation will draw and/or re-draw gradations, infiltrations, nestings, the intertwining spaces and uses that make gecekondu neighborhoods.

A double reference to Michel de Certeau (de Certeau, Giard, Mayol, l’invention du quotidien, tome 2, habiter-cuisiner, Paris : Gallimard, 1994), the district [gradual privatization of public space, p. 20] and the ordinary culture [practical science of singular, p. 360] participate to found the scientific basis of this knowledge.