Ontological Planning

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2017.22

Keywords:

Ontological planning, urban memory, human and environment

Abstract

Debates about “being” and “existence” have continued uninterruptedly since ancient times in accordance with the evolution of philosophical thinking albeit at various levels of intensity.  “Spatial Planning” which had not constitute a problem area for mankind until the industrial revolution, was linked to “ontology” either. In the post industrial revolution, on the other hand, “Cultural Delay” was regarded as a threshold before harmony in defining social problems mostly as a result of “technology-culture” oriented approaches. Failure to obtain expected results from endeavors to find solution to spatial problems in this manner of relationships paved the way for emergence of new ideas with regard to making use of ontology. However ontology has not been able to find a place for itself within the planning discipline and theory in adequate scope and dimensions in the search for a solution to the problem. This paper will make an attempt at presenting a point of view that can a modest contribution to the planning and ontology relations and try to discuss whether or not such endeavors will evolve into a method.

The theme of planning, which began and was tried to be continued as “people-oriented”, also carries an “ontological” approach at the heart of the action. The problem here is to find an answer to the question of how an institutionalized structure or system can be acquired by raising this improvised attitude to the level of consciousness, thereby enabling it to participate effectively in the planning-implementation efforts.

We are now faced with the reality that the efforts that were made from the beginning of the industrial revolution, when urban developments gained momentum, to the Euclidian understanding of planning in the 1950s and 1960s based on scientific approaches, to an approach of planning that channelled limited urban lands to profit during the urbanization process, to making “strategic” decisions on the basis of the planning decision theory and gradually evolving into a search for “strategic spatial planning” have not yielded the anticipated results.

  • Can we make use of “ontology” in finding a solution to this deep-rooted and complicated question?
  • If yes, how? Can macro and micro level institutional structures be used as instruments to this end, no matter how utopian they may seem today? Can existing ones be rendered more effective?
  • Is it possible that there might be some among the variables of the planning (dependent and independent) that need to be opened for discussion and repositioned (like time)?
  • Is it possible to redefine ontology within the hierarchical structure of planning?

We are going to seek answers to some of these questions within the limited scope of this paper and we are going to offer the rest for discussion by just asking them.

In light of these assessments, drawing attention, based on ontological knowledge relying on the wholeness of universe, to the question, on macro level planning, of whether or not the ontological realities of man, energy and movements of thinking can provide macro data for planning on a universal level as important factors affecting mankind will be one of the limited objectives of the paper.

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Author Biography

Ahmet Alkan, Selcuk University, Faculty of Architecture

Ahmet Alkan was born in 1954 in Konya-Ahırlı district. He completed his first, middle and graduate education in Konya. (1975) Masters (1978) and Ph.D. (1983) degrees from ITU. He started his academic life as a city planning assistant in KDMMA Architecture Department in 978; In 1985, he began his career as an assistant professor and proceed as associate professor  in 1990. He began his political life with the elections of the local administrations (Konya Metropolitan Mayor candidacy) and continued as a Member of Parliament from 1995 to 1999. Ahmet Alkan, who continued his career as "freelance architect" between 1999-2007, returned academic life again at the end of 2007.

In his academic life, Ahmet Alkan, who is still in charge of administrative affairs such as  department chair, faculty board member, founder board member and vice chairman of many research centers, KTVKK member and vice chairman and also still continues to serve as dean of Faculty of Architecture at Selçuk University. .

Ahmet Alkan has many books and four with related to his architectural profession, one with political speeches, one with poems and one with a memo-novel, He continues to contribute to the scientific life with numerous papers, articles, seminars, conferences and traditional congresses and the Journal of the Faculty of Architecture(Iconarp), which he has brought to publication life.

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Published

18-12-2017

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Alkan, A. (2017). Ontological Planning. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 5, 01–17. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2017.22