We peer into a pit dug deep into the ground. In the mid­dle: a last iso­lat­ed house on a mas­sive clump of earth. Nail hous­es, that’s what these structures—left in appar­ent wastelands—are called. For Ahmet Öğüt, these hous­es are »expres­sions of indi­vid­ual every­day resis­tance against strate­gies of state or cor­po­rate con­straint.« They are rem­nants of hasty urban­iza­tion process­es and, at the same time, speak of dis­place­ment. Öğüt’s mod­el rep­re­sen­ta­tions of the nail hous­es record this state of things as a warn­ing. And so, resis­tance to the relent­less glob­al real estate indus­try and spec­u­la­tive land devel­op­ment is made vis­i­ble in the long term and thus nego­tiable for others.

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