2020-2021
Development Process
İZMİR TIME MACHINE
Development Process
İzmir Time Machine is a multi-layered project uniting various academic disciplines, including prehistory, classic archaeology, art history, modern history, and history of architecture with a variety of expertise such as three-dimensional modeling, web technologies, photography, graphic design, and video-production.
Academic Research
The entire literature on the 8500-year archaeological and historical existence of İzmir was reviewed in consultation with academicians of each respective discipline to create visual and written content for the project.
Organizing Big Data
Thousands of pages of academic publications, books, newspaper archives, photographs, postcards, illustrations, maps, and web sites were reviewed and the culminated big data was classified to produce sources for the project.
Three-Dimensional Modeling
Three-dimensional models were created of cultural heritage sites in five different locations from five different time periods, namely the Yeşilova Höyük, Old Smyrna Höyük, Ancient City of Smyrna, 18th-century Kemeraltı, and early-20th century İzmir port.
Web Publishing
The three-dimensional content produced as part of the project was optimized for online publishing using WebGL technology. The coding process of the website followed modern web technologies.
İzmir Time Machine project aims to revive İzmir's thousands of years of archaeological and historical heritage in three dimensions through rigorous academic data and to introduce the resurrected content on the internet using contemporary web technologies. The first stage of the project focused on İzmir city center and academicians in each related discipline, as well as content creators, united to complete the initial phase following a year and a half of intense study.
190 +
Total Number of Modeled Structures
19
Total Number of Project Contributors
18K +
Total Work Hours Invested in the Project
20K +
Words Original Content on the Site
Concept Design
- Dr. Mehmet YAVUZ
- İZKA Secretary General
- Çağdaş GÜNEŞ
- İZKA Head of Project Implementation and Monitoring Unit
Project Contributors
AREA MÜZECİLİK
- Deniz ARKAN
- Project Management, Content, Photography/Videography, Web
- İlker KOKULUÇİÇEK
- Project Management, Content, Photography/Videography
- Emre AŞER
- 3D Modelling, Texturing, WebGL
- Bilal AKUŞ
- 3D Modelling, Texturing
- Recep PINAR
- 3D Modelling, Texturing, WebGL
- Gamze SAKARYA
- Photography/Videography
- Melih ENGİN
- Project Assistant
- Hakan AYCAN
- Content
CONSULTANTS
- Prof. Cumhur Tanrıver
- Old Smyrna Höyük Head of Excavations
- Assoc. Prof. Zafer Derin
- Yeşilova Höyük Head of Excavations
- Assoc. Prof. Akın Ersoy
- The Ancient City of Smyrna Head of Excavations
SUPPORTERS
- Ömer Durmaz
- Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts
- Prof. Çınar Atay
- İzmir Historian
- İlhan Pınar
- İzmir Historian
- Orhan Beşikçi
- İzmir Historian
- Assoc. Prof. Olcay Pullukçuoğlu Yapucu
- Aegean University, Department of Modern History
- Assoc. Prof. Şakir Çakmak
- Aegean University, Department of Art History
Sources of Visual Archives Referenced on the Website
- Getty Research Institute
- Rijks Museum
- Alman Arkeoloji Enstitüsü
- İzmir Ticaret Odası
- Library of Congress
- Victoria and Albert Museum
- Salt Research
- Jean Paul Getty Museum
- Biblioteka Cyfrowa
- Imperial War Museums
- Levantine Heritage
- The Walters Art Museum
- The Harvard Fine Arts Library
- David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
- The Illustrated London News
Utilized References
ANCIENT HISTORY
- Eski İzmir I
- Ekrem Akurgal
- Eski Çağ'da Ege ve İzmir
- Ekrem Akurgal
- Büyük İskender Sonrasında Antik Smyrna (İzmir)
- Akın Ersoy
- Smyrna’yı M.S. 177 Yılı Depreminden Kurtaran Aelius Aristeides’in 18. 19. ve 20. Söylevleri
- Ayşe Yakut
- İzmir'in Smyrna'sı Paleolitik Çağ'dan Türk Fethine Kadar
- Ersin Doğer
- Smyrna Akropolü Savunma Yapıları
- Hakan Göncü
- Eski Smyrna Demir Çağı Savunma Duvarları
- Hüseyin Cevizoğlu
- Old Smyrna Excavations: The Temples of Athena
- J. M. Cook, R. V. Nicholls, D. M. Pyle
- On the Date of Alyattes' Sack of Smyrna
- J. M. Cook
- Being Ionian: the Ionian League, Ionian Migrations and Smyrna
- Naoíse Mac Sweeney
- İzmir’in 8500 Yıllık Sakinine İlişkin İzler...
- Zafer Derin
- Prehistorik Settlement of İzmir: Yeşilova Höyük
- Zafer Derin
MODERN HISTORY
- Smyrna Quay
- George Poulimenos, Achilleas Chatziconstantinou
- 19. Yüzyılda İzmir Kenti
- Rauf Beyru
- 19. Yüzyılda İzmir'de Yaşam
- Rauf Beyru
- İzmir Rıhtımında Ticaret Kordon Boyunda Yaşam 1610-1940
- Çınar Atay
- Kapanan Kapılar (İzmir Hanları)
- Çınar Atay
- Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e İzmir Planları
- Çınar Atay
- İzmir ve Levanten Dünya 1550 - 1650
- Daniel Goffman
- İzmir Hanları
- Bozkurt Ersoy
- The Making of an Ottoman Port - The Quay of Izmir in the Nineteenth Century
- Elena Frangakis-Syrett
- The Economic Activities of Ottoman and Western Communities in Eigteenth-Century İzmir
- Elena Frangakis-Syrett
- 19. Yüzyılın İkinci Yarısında İzmir ve Çevresinde Sanayi ve Ticaret
- Abdullah Martal
- Hacılar, Seyyahlar, Misyonerler ve İzmir
- İlhan Pınar
- Osmanlı Dönemi İzmir Planları ve Haritaları
- İlhan Pınar
- İzmir Limanının Hinterlandında Ticaret Yolları ve Ticaret Mekânları
- Olcay Pullukçuoğlu Yapucu
- Struggles Over the Shore: Building the Quay of Izmir, 1867-1875
- Sibel Zandi-Sayek
- Ottoman Izmir The Rise of a Cosmopolitan Port, 1840-1880
- Sibel Zandi-Sayek
- On Dokuzuncu Yüzyılda Doğu Akdeniz Liman Kentinin Yapısı
- Tülin Selvi Ünlü
- İzmir Oteller Tarihi
- Emel Kayın
