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Ankara is a multi-layered city that acts as a carrier of thousands of years of historical continuity, extending from the Phrygians to Rome, from Byzantium to the Seljuks, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic. This accumulation is hidden not only in monuments but also in stone, wood, motifs, fabric, and symbols. Ankara's identity is formed by the articulation of these traces accumulated over centuries, layered one upon another.

Doku Ankara is an urban memory project that proposes reading the city's multi-layered history through textures (doku) rather than a chronological narrative. Each selected texture represents a historical and semantic layer of Ankara; it makes the city's history visible within a fragmented yet unbroken continuity.

The work focuses not only on tangible surfaces but also on the production culture, social relations, and daily life felt behind these surfaces. The spaces accompanying the textures are brought together using a miniature style that unites time and space on a single surface, presenting Ankara's past as a holistic memory space.

Doku Ankara treats the city's memory not by reducing it to a single period or narrative, but as a memory space where different times, cultures, and modes of production can exist side by side. In this respect, the project proposes thinking of Ankara's past not as a fixed history, but as a living urban memory that is constantly re-read through its traces, textures, and layers of meaning.

This work has been realized by the Ankara Chamber of Commerce with the concept of "The City Woven by History" to make the city's historical continuity and cultural memory visible. Doku Ankara addresses the history of Ankara, woven with production, trade, and social life, not merely as a narrative of the past, but as a living memory that feeds the present and is carried into the future.

The conceptual framework and texts of Doku Ankara were created by Muhammed Murat Arslan, and the miniatures forming its visual narrative were produced by miniature artist Öykü Terzioğlu Özer. The project invites us to rethink Ankara not only as a lived space but as a cultural memory readable through its traces.