A good lecture

跟學院的相比，這個lecture可謂超晒班。

但其實當年上Dr Lee的課時，堂堂都起碼有這個水準，只是有時他的用字太深，我們不能完全明白。

當年我們都是寫筆記高手，老師不會派講義，也不會有傻瓜PowerPoint。

好想告訴同學們什麼叫水準！

Lecture內容：
Women and the Modern Domicile in Turkey in the Mid-20th Century

（二十世紀中期土耳其女性與現代家居）



Speaker:


Meltem Ö. Gürel

Assistant Professor

Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

Bilkent University, Turkey

Date:


Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Time:


7:30pm – 9:30pm

Venue:


Room 202, Duke of Windsor Social Service Building, 15 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong (Wan Chai MTR Exit A2)



Abstract:

During the 1950s and 1960s, powerful images of women as fashionable homemakers proliferated throughout the Cold War regions, where capitalism was promoted for combating the perils of communism. Framing the convoluted concepts of modern and Western, these images contributed to the formation of shared values, norms and beliefs around contemporary women and the modern home. They simultaneously influenced ways in which a woman recognized herself as a member of a socio-cultural group in the urban context. In this historical framework, I show how women were national assets representing the country and playing a critical role in spreading and normalizing modernization and Westernization. Conceptualizing domestic space as a domain where gender roles are formed and performed, I argue that while mediating powerful discourses on the structures of patriarchy, the construction of women’s identity empowered them as significant actors in shaping the modern domicile.



Bio:

Meltem Ö. Gürel is Head of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University, Ankara, where she has been teaching since 1994. Previous to her full-time academic engagement, Gürel practised architecture and interior design in Illinois and New York. She taught as an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from where she received her Ph.D. in Architecture, Master of Architecture, B.Sc. in Architectural Studies and B.Sc. in Interior Design. Gürel has published in Journal of Architectural Education, The Journal of Architecture, Gender, Place and Culture, Journal of Design History, The International Journal of Art & Design Education and elsewhere. Her research interests include cross-cultural histories of modernism with an emphasis on society, gender and culture as they have influenced the built environment – especially in Turkey in the mid-twentieth century – as well as the domestic domain, interior space and interior design/architecture education.