As an architect and spatial researcher, I am curious about the different spatial responses to climate transition.
I focus on two realms: how civic actions and climate protests claim public space, and how architecture can respond to climate transition through adaptive reuse, retrofit, and other forms of spatial transformation.
Using fieldwork, spatial analysis, critical writing, and design, my practice moves between maritime infrastructures, contested public spaces, and existing landscapes.
Currently based between London and Istanbul.
PUBLISHED
SPATIALIZING SAYING ‘NO’ ARCHITECTURES OF HOPE, İTÜ
THE COUNTER-MELANCHOLIC CITY: REMAKING LONDON’S PROTEST LANDSCAPE ATLANTIS MAGAZINE, ISSUE 36.1, TU DELFT
PORTS, PROTESTS, AND POLITICS OF PERMISSION ECHOES JOURNAL, CRA, GOLDSMITHS
INTO THE INVISIBLE: INTRODUCTION TO COLLECTIVE INTROSPECTION TOOLKIT FOR SPATIAL JUSTICE A MANIFESTO FOR THE JUST CITY, TU DELFT
PARASITE MANIFESTO COUNTER-COMPETITION FOR THE IZMIR MUNICIPALITY BUILDING DEMOLITION, ARKITERA
PUBLIC FORUM + EXHIBITION
REVERBERATION GROUP SHOW ST JAMES' HATCHAM GALLERY, GOLDSMITHS
INTERFERENCE - WATER MONTEZ PRESS RADIO x CRA-dio
THREE THINGS I LEARNED FROM TIDAL FIELD RECORDING A NON-CONFERENCE, SARPE SITUATED ARCHITECTURAL PEDAGOGIES OF CO-MAKING/-BECOMING, İTÜ
CLIMATE COMMONS UNESCO WORLD CAPITAL OF ARCHITECTURE , ETSAB
UMANO URBANO PROJECT ETEROTOPIA, MILANO ARCH WEEK, TRIENNALE DI MILANO
FABRICAMP TAŞKIŞLA DIGITAL EXHIBITION, MİMARLIK GROUP H, İTÜ
EDUCATION
MA RESEARCH ARCHITECTURE GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
MBARCH ADVANCED STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA
BARCH + BSC URBAN AND REGIONAL PLANNING (DOUBLE DEGREE) ISTANBUL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
BACKGROUND
ARCHITECT, DS LANDSCAPE + ARCHITECTURE
ARCHITECT + URBAN DESIGNER, SANAL ARCHITECTURE + URBANISM, OPEN URBAN PRACTICE
URBAN PLANNING ASSISTANT, TURKISH MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT, URBANISATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE
URBAN PLANNING ASSISTANT, ISTANBUL METROPOLITAN & ESENLER MUNICIPALITY