organisers
Aslihan Senel
After completing my BArch and MSci degrees at the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, I have gained my PhD degree at the Bartlett School of Achitecture, University College London, with a thesis titled ‘Unfixing Place: A Study of Istanbul through Topographical Practices’. I have participated in collaborative design work, some of which are: wallpaperwall in Berlin, Sussex in Bloomsbury in London, Not Just White in Belo Horizonte. I organised workshops, seminars, and conferences, some of which are: Air&Architectonics Student Competition and Workshop in Amasya and Creative Research Conference at University College London. I currently work as a design and theory tutor at the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University (www.s-e-y-y-a-r.blogspot.com, www.pazar-yer-i.blogspot.com ) My research interests include urban representations, spatial practices, theories of travel and performance theories. My current practice involves mapping travels in order to explore ways of personal engagement with place.
Ozan Avcı
After completing my BArch and MSci degrees at the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University, I have started my Phd in Architectural Design Programme at the same department at I.T.U. During my MSci, I had been in Brandenburg Technical University - Cottbus in Germany for one year as an Erasmus Exchange student. I have gained a certificate of fashion design course at Akademi Istanbul. I have attended into several design competitions and received the second prize in ‘Conceptual Design for 3000 years old Ottoman Village – Cumalıkızık’ with with G.Çıbık, E.Aydilek, C.Dinlenmiş and G.Uzun in 2007 and received the first honourable mention in IMMIB Industrial Design – Metal Kitchenware Competition in 2009. I have participated in several international workshops such as 'Meeting Point-Büyükhüsun - Local Cousine Workshop', ‘Explore the unseen-Istanbul’, ‘Thinking the Future of Symbolic Places’, ‘mAAN Industrial Heritage Revitalization Workshop’ and ‘Architectural Presentations / Possible Futures” in “Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2 / Tünel–Karaköy’ and also orginized national and international workshops such as ‘Sketch-mapping Istanbul’, ‘Multiple Ambiguous Portraits’, ‘[Un]known Hanger’, ‘New Ideas for Old Balat’, ‘Dwellings of Emotions’ and ‘Inhabiting in / Designing for Your Body’. I currently work as a research and teaching assistant at the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University. My research interests are body-space-time relations, the relations between architecture and other disciplines - especially fashion design, design process, theories of perception, sensation and bodily experience and representation. My current practice involves representation of sensation in the context of body and space interactions.
