Dr.Elif Özlem ORAL AYDIN is an Architecture Professor. She is teaching since 2000 architecture bachelor and graudate degree students. She. has thirty year long studies about historical building analysis,documentation, adaptive reuse and restoration. Her expertise covers tangible and intangible heritage, management of heritage sites,and digital design and transition innovations for historic sites.She is also international member of ICOMOS-Türkiye and DOCOMOMO-Türkiye.
 

Osman Balaban is a professor in the Department of City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University (METU). He received his master’s degree in Urban Policy Planning in 2000 and PhD in City Planning in 2008, both from METU. Between 2009 and 2012, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Yokohama, Japan. His graduate research examined political and economic dynamics shaping built-environment production. During his postdoctoral studies, he conducted fieldwork in Tokyo, Yokohama, Kanazawa, and Delhi, investigating links between climate change, land use, transport, and buildings. His interests include climate change adaptation, low-carbon and climate-resilient urbanism, environmental politics, local governments, urban regeneration, post-disaster recovery planning, urban resilience, and social vulnerability analysis.

Dr. Manu P. Sobti is a landscape historian and urban interlocutor of the Global South with research specialisations in South Asia, South East Asia, Central Asia, and the Middle East. Within the gamut of the Global, the Islamic, and the Non-Western, his continuing work examines borderland transgressions and their intertwinement with human mobilities, indigeneities, and the narratives of passage across these liminal sites. From his perspective, ‘land-centered’ and ‘deep’ place histories replete with human actors serve as critical and de-colonizing processes that negate the top-down master-narratives wherein borders and boundaries simplistically delineate nation states and their scalar range of internal geographies. He was previously Associate Professor at the School of Architecture & Urban Planning (SARUP), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee USA (2006-16). He has a B.Dipl.Arch. from the School of Architecture-CEPT (Ahmedabad - INDIA), an SMarchS. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge - USA), and a Ph.D. from the College of Architecture, Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta - USA).

As a recognized scholar and innovative educator, Sobti served as Director of SARUP-UWM’s India Winterim Program (2008-15). This foreign study program worked intensively with local architecture schools in Ahmedabad, Delhi and Chandigarh, allowing students and faculty to interact actively, often within the gamut of the same project. He also set up a similar, research-focused program in Uzbekistan, engaging advanced undergraduate and graduate students to undertake field research at sites, archives and cultural landscapes. In partnership with the Art History Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and SARUP colleagues, Sobti also co-coordinated the Building-Landscapes-Cultures (BLC) Concentration of SARUP-UWM’s Doctoral Program (2011-13), creating opportunities for student research in diverse areas of architectural and urban history and in multiple global settings. He served as the Chair of SARUP's PhD Committee between 2014-16, leading an area of BLC's research consortium titled Urban Histories and Contested Geographies.

Sobti's research has been supported by multiple funding bodies, including the Graham Foundation of the Arts (USA), the Architectural Association (UK), the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (USA), the French Institute of Central Asian Studies (UZBEKISTAN), the US Department of State Fulbright Foundation (USA), the Aga Khan Foundation (SWITZERLAND), the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (USA), the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA), the Centre for 21st Century Studies University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (USA), the Institute for Research in the Humanities University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA), Stanford University (USA), in addition to collaborations with institutions in New Delhi/Chandigarh/Ahmedabad (INDIA), Samarqand/Bukhara (UZBEKISTAN), Erzurum (TURKEY) and New Orleans (USA). He has also served as a United States Department of State Fulbright Senior Specialist Scholar and received 7 Research Fellowships at important institutions worldwide. He is a nominated Expert Member of the ICOMOS-ICIP (Interpretation and Presentation of Cultural Heritage Sites) International Committee, responsible for debate and stewardship on contentious cultural heritage issues globally.

Alessandro Camiz graduated (BArch+MArch) in Architecture at “Sapienza” University (Rome, 1999). Before graduating he cooperated with Sartogo Architetti Associati for the New Italian Embassy (Washington DC) and the Church of Jesus’ Holy Face (Rome). In 2007, he discussed his doctoral thesis on “History of medieval town planning of Ravenna” (Sapienza), and therein attended Post-Doctoral studies until 2014. He taught at the School of Architecture of University of Miami (Rome programme) and at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Fine Arts of Girne American University (Cyprus), where he directed until 2018 the International Centre for Heritage Studies (ICHS) and the Department of Interior Architecture. He is member of ICOMOS-Italy, and secretary general of the Cyprus Network for Urban Morphology (CyNUM). He worked as associate professor and director of the Laboratory of Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology (DRUM) at Özyeğin University, Istanbul. He is currently an associate professor at Università degli Studi "G. d'Annunzio" Chieti – Pescara , Italy. His main research interests are in architectural design, urban morphology and advanced technologies for conservation and enhancement of architectural heritage.