A contribution to the Actor Network Theory as a method of deciphering the relationships of power implicit to space: Chronological Relationship Diagram

The space has been centered on discussions in the field of architecture after its emergence in architectural literature in the middle of the nineteenth century. In the nineteenth century, "architectural space" was developed in the context of man's emotional, mental, perceptual and physical relation to space. The content of this concept has evolved into "social space" at the end of the twentieth century, under the influence of social production and reproduction relations. On the other hand, social production and reproduction relations are essentially power relations. This argument is based on the post-structuralist meaning of power as a network of productive and dynamic relations, and that can exist spontaneously everywhere. The aim of this thesis is to decipher the network of power relations implicit to space and visualize this network. In order to decipher the network of power relations, New Materialist discourse, which enables the multiple, plural and heterogeneous analysis of networks, and its alternative analytical approaches have been examined. Actor Network Theory (ANT), one of these approaches, is applied as an effective research methodology that can reveal the relations between actors, objects and things involved in the production of space. In order to visualize the network of power relations decoded by ANT, the mapping methods used in current studies were examined and regarding the potentials and limitations of these samples, a new representation model is proposed on the basis of ANT. In order to test this representation model, which is called "Chronological Relationship Diagram" (CRD), a case study was carried out in "Basmane Hole". The relationship between actors, intermediaries, mediators and the power relations they construct in the production process of the land is investigated. The power network is presented graphically by the transfer of the translations in actor network to CRD. The production of exchange and use value and physical, imaginative, discursive transformation of "Basmane Hole" has been made visually traceable and the opportunity to reveal power practices and resistance potentials in the space has been discovered.