Document Type : pajoheshi

Authors

• akram khalilipour ¹
• Reza Afhami ²
• Seyyed Mehdi Mousavi Kohper ³
• Dariush Rahmanian Koshki ⁴

¹ PhD student Tarbiat Modares

² Associate Professor, Research in Art History Department, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

³ Professor, Department of Archeology, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Social movements are the breaking point of the long-standing system of relations within space and its transformation in terms of meaning and production of new spaces. Therefore, the present study aims to find the transformation of space in one of the most important contemporary social movements, namely the Constitutional Revolution in the Qajar period, and show how the interaction between social/spatial affairs led to a change in the spatial concept of Tehran in that period. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between urban space and the events of the Constitutional Revolution and the symbolic transformation of urban spaces resulting from this social action. The method of the present study was historical-descriptive and the collecting data was done based on the library (documentary) and field (visiting buildings) methods. The results of the research show that in the Constitutional Revolution, three different stages of consumption, production, and spatial confrontation can be observed. In the first stage, events begin in the body of a space that is historically considered legitimate, and then social action creates and represents its spaces, and everyday spaces become part of a new symbolic system of urban space. In the third stage of the revolution, we are faced with the metamorphosis of the spatial concept, the change of the symbolic meaning of pre-existing spaces, and the attempt to occupy the designated spaces to confront the groups involved in the revolution.
 

Keywords

• Urban space
• Tehran
• Constitutional Revolution
• Qajar
• Spatial representation