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Hidayet SOFTAOGLU , (). RE-EVALUATING THE ARCHITECTURAL AND URBAN DOCUMENTS BY CONSIDERING THE MEANING OF EPHEMERA THROUGH THAMES FROST FAIR. International Journal Of Eurasia Social Sciences, , p. . Doi: .
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Abstract
Spaces that are not in use or reformed into online platforms by Covid-19 show that, society can produce or transform spaces to meet their demands as a response to unexpected happenings. Societies that are pushed by environmental, climate, or exterior forces could re-produce new spaces or back to the previous spaces when these forces disappear. Even though people are recently recovering from the global pandemic, scientists believe that the climate crisis will be the next external force waiting for humanity. This paper is generated by wondering how societies and people react and respond to unexpected exterior forces and happenings when designing their urban life or architecture. As climatic change is expected as the ensuing global force after the pandemic, this paper takes Great Frost between the 16-19th centuries in its centre. It discovers that Londoners transformed the Thames River into Thames Frost Fair, which disappears when the frost is gone. However, Londoners who created souvenirs and ephemeral documents as the memory of Frost Fairs still exist. As Lefebvre believes that every society produces its own space, this study aims to reveal design is not always planned in advance; it sometimes happens even under difficult and impermanent circumstances, depending on the society. Finally, to contribute to interrelationships among design, society, and spatial theories, the paper call this reactional design ephemeral spaces since they are the primary source of the aforementioned ephemeral memorial document.
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Architectural ephemera, production of space, architectural theory and criticism, Thames Frost Fair, documentational architecture.