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In this project, I problematize the globalizing rhetoric on green energy, deemed a prerequisite for species' fitness by institutions that have come to operate under the political-economic apparatus known as neoliberalism. Based on the case study of small hydropower plants in Turkey, the project provides an analysis of Turkey’s authoritarian neoliberalism through the lens of green energy. Examining burgeoning grassroots movements, the project points out to the cracks on infrastructure and state hegemony. By paying attention to neoliberalism’s undemocratic premises, I posit that it is only by politicizing space that the global, social and body can be linked in ways to permeate socially inclusive futures.

NATURE, INFRASTRUCTURE AND AUTHORITARIAN NEOLIBERALISM

Fitness is a core element in most sports played around the world. At a global scale, cricket has transformed from the colonial leisure sport to a multi billion-dollar industry. This project explores the role of power and its relation to space where the sport is exercised while tracing its historical development in Indian context. It explores the journey of this sport from Britain to its colonies as a mode of discipline to civilize the primitive and help create a climate of relations to bind the Empire together, which somehow became a mechanism for resistance to the notion of colonialism eventually expanding into a spectacle for the masses.

THE SPATIALITY OF CRICKET

The project challenges received understanding of the term fitness and try to repurpose it through the lens of infrastructure to stage a conversation about inequality and power under the conditions of neoliberalism. Based on the case of the water crisis in Karachi, this project questions how infrastructure distributes and concentrates resources and advantages, and tries to reveal how fitness is enabled or disabled for different social classes.

FIT FOR WHAT?

In this research, I present a critique of the notion of self-development as a form of fitness through which one seeks to develop oneself according to neoliberal power. Using Foucault's two-part lecture series on the Hermeneutics of the Subject (1980-81) as a jumping-off point, my research unpacks Foucault’s interest in governance through his dual exploration of confession, reconsiders Christian self-development through confession according to the critique posited by 16th century Christian reformers, and applies this reframing of Christian confession as a way to critique the emergence of the neoliberal “entrepreneurial of himself” as applied to urban planning. I use the medium of a creative novella titled Who Do You Say That I Am? to further elaborate on the dialectics of becoming.

I AM

In this project, I aimed to understand and highlight the main drivers, limits, and potentials of the "Active Design" city movement by reviewing universal planning principles and guidelines of one of the pioneering organizations called The Centre for Active Design (CfAD) which approaches the term "fitness" related to body performance, productivity, and wellness as a vital investment and measure for good and healthy urban design.

ONE MORE STEP FOR ACTIVE CITY!

In production based societies, technological development is a central point of the environment that is created around us. The project is showing how using the concept of machine in a recurrent way leads to an incoherent organisation of space. Fitness and more precisely the body machine is a key element used to develop the purpose.

FITNESS AT IT'S FINEST

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