Research

The Four-Quadrant Framework is a relational mapping method I developed through my doctoral research to examine heritage practices across two intersecting dimensions: material–immaterial and official–unofficial. Rather than treating the four quadrants as fixed categories, the framework uses them as a diagnostic structure for mapping relationships, overlaps, asymmetries, and absences among heritage practices. By mapping these distributions, the framework makes it possible to compare where recognition and care are concentrated, where they become uneven, and what remains absent.

Post-earthquake Antakya became the primary empirical field through which I tested and refined the Four-Quadrant Framework under conditions of rupture and recovery. Through site observation, photography, archival research, and digital documentation, I traced changing conditions at Habib-i Neccar Mosque and St. Paul Greek Orthodox Church alongside shifts in the material, institutional, and everyday practices surrounding them. Findings from this research have been disseminated through a peer-reviewed proceedings paper and will be presented at ICOMOS GA2026.