Öztürk
The body and urban space are connected on many levels. In the history of urban development, the body has always been a reference and a starting point for the planning and building of cities, based on prevailing ideals of the body, prevailing ideologies and the prevailing state of medical knowledge. A major factor in the development of modern cities was the discovery made in 1628 of the blood circulation by William Harvey. Circulation and free movement were the new measure of health and so cities emerged that focussed on transport and efficiency, with their own circulatory system and their own network of veins and arteries in which blood cells can move and flow freely. The result with which this work is concerned, is a neutral and purpose-based cityscape, in which our bodies take on a passive role in their movement through urban spaces and are increasingly desensitized. From the conscious renunciation of sensory stimuli within these spaces and the fundamental consequence of constant and free movement, we lose attachment to these places and to the people who, like us, move through them.