| Summary: | This paper discusses the integrated study of the workshop entitled 'Re-Mapping the Visible and Invisible of Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat' and the conceptual theory behind it. Encouraging students to look beyond the boundaries of studio environment and explore the disclosed features of urban space have been a crucial part of this workshop. The conceptual framework of the workshop is based on the role of bodily experiences in defining the phenomenon of space in the context of visible and invisible features of the city. Vefa-Zeyrek-Fener-Balat districts in Istanbul is selected as a route to present architectural, historical and cultural; multi-layered nature of the field. Considering the bodily-sensory perception at the center of spatial experiences, the aim was to uncover layers of those sensual experience related to urban space. The authenticity of the methodological approach is to address the stages of urban space experience, to record the knowledge gained through this experience, and to express it through two-dimensional posters and three-dimensional models. Within phenomenological perspective, experiential mapping is adopted as an approach of structuring and representing spatial knowledge by body-subjects who themselves experience the place. Spatial knowledge acquired and represented by body-subjects is then transformed into design knowledge generated by/through group-works. Consequently, this design knowledge has been made visible as a solid material such as maps and posters enabling us to read the patterns of overlapping and intersecting layers of urban spaces.
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