Paper short abstract:

The research-based visualization displays the tactics developed by Turkish immigrants to adapt to their place of residence, that is London, through methods of ethnographic research and walking and reflects on the subjectivity of migrants in getting accustomed to their place of residence and work.

Paper long abstract:

This project takes Kingsland High Street, London as its area of interest and uses the eleven interviews conducted on site with Turkish migrant shop owners and workers, with references to notions of home, gender roles and politics. In aiming to incorporate the subjectivity of the position of a Turkish migrant, rather than attempting to systematize the process of the project into an objective basis, the expression of the project took the form of an almost four meter long collage-drawing 'map' of relations. The project aims to investigate and discover the unregistered political and cultural memories of these migrants through their individual recollection and the aesthetics of the shops on the street by drifting on the site, talking to people, taking photos of details and combining these into a narrative as a collage.

The site was explored through walking, observing, and engaging instead of observing in a fixed point. Through walking on Kingsland High Street, the experience and representation of the area is not totalized in a single point of view but is rather acknowledged as part of the city and as a negotiation ground for residents with different behavioral patterns. In fact, Kingsland High Street was a convenient site for demonstrating the relationship between the seen and the vision and the project experiments on the possibility of expressing the vision of another. This subjectivization of the content disperses the viewpoint of the space and requires another mode of 'seeing'.