Goat territories: Territorializing landscapes with yörük nomads

Migration

According to the nomads, the course of life is as follows: “life ends the road never ends”. This is the simplest expression of the nomad’s sense of immortality. The nomad therefore also does not take property for the dead and does not create cemeteries. We bury them where they gives their lifes to the earth. When you look at life in this way, death is a continuation of migration, is just another form of it. 

This is how the narrative and the stories appears around migration and territorializes the future and past.

Design statement

This project focuses on supporting nomadic communities in southern Turkey, particularly in conflict-affected zones where nomads have been displaced and pushed off the grid. It aims to preserve and adapt the traditional nomadic lifestyle for the modern day and the future. By examining the intersection of energy infrastructure, mining activities, and nomadic settlement patterns, the project proposes a sustainable system where modern development and nomadic ways of life can coexist and thrive.