Digital Collar was created in spring 2020, while still reeling from the shock wave of witnessing a pandemic. Interviews with white collar workers are held to see how their relationship with physicality has been affected, tackling the question of the re-configuration between the city centre and the periphery, focusing on cases in Istanbul.


COVID-19, becoming intimate with our species, pushed digital tools into our lives, acting as the final straw for our species to abandon our obsolescent urban infrastructure and make the digital age our own.

With this boost of remote-working, physicality does not seem as crucial as before and the boundary between the physical and non-physical has become ambiguous.

What would this mean for our built environment?

Do we really need to locate ourselves physically close to our offices?

Will we really need all these skyscrapers in the future?

What could COVID-19 tell us about the emerging desire for hyperlocality?