She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, getting the first graduate degree in 1993.
She completed her master degree, with the thesis on “The Effects of Cubism on Modernism and Post Modernism” in January 1996. She won an international competition on “Ph.D. Thesis in Architecture”, organized by BRI: Building Research & Information (The International Journal of Research, Development, Demonstration & Innovation) in United Kingdom, in 1999 with her thesis “Concept, Conception, Conceptual Analysis in Aesthetics and Architecture: Sampling on the Works of Architecture after 1980”.
She still works as a Professor at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, leading the “Architectural Design” and “Basic Design” Studios, teaching the courses of “Theory of Architecture”, “Theory of Art”, “Aesthetics”, “The Dialog of Art and Architecture in 20th Century”, “Cinema and Architecture” and is the author of many related works.

Aslihan Öztürk is currently an assistant professor at the faculty of architecture at Karadeniz Technical University. Her general areas of interest are cultural heritage sites and museums, memory spaces, museum designs, emotional and interactive spaces.

Gürkan TOPALOĞLU's academic journey has been shaped at Karadeniz Technical University. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Department of Architecture between 2005 and 2013. He then earned his Ph.D. in architecture from the Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences at the same university in 2019.
Currently, Dr. TOPALOĞLU works as an Assistant Professor at Karadeniz Technical University. His main research interests include biennials, discourse in architecture, and basic design education.

Jasim Azhar is an Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urbanism at the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning at Qatar University. Over the past seven years, he has tutored both graduate and undergraduate students while co-authoring and teaching a variety of Architecture and Design courses including studio projects, drawing communication, theory, construction, digital tools, history and sustainability. His teaching revolves around achieving one broad goal of exploration that includes integration and discovery.

He is a scholar in Architecture and Sustaianble Urban Design, focusing on leftover spaces and design, people’s preferences, aesthetics, spatial analysis, participatory design and urban regeneration strategies. His current research about liminal spaces and their design based on human perception. Another proposition concerns the comparison of arbitrary patterns with zoning in Qatar, will scrutinize smart and sustainable strategies for future policies, elevating the department’s perspective. His scholarly interests have been developing over time, and currently, I am working on implementing digital twin simulations, which could contribute to Qatar’s national vision 2030. He has won numerous awards and scholarship awards.

Kathryn Bedette, AIA, is an award-winning architect in the U.S. State of Georgia and a Professor of Architecture at Kennesaw State University in the United States. Kathryn currently serves as Associate Dean for Student Success and Accreditation for the College of Architecture and Construction Management at KSU and her professional experience includes a broad range of institutional projects as well as adaptive reuse office, retail and high-rise mixed-use projects. Professor Bedette’s research examines the conceptual frameworks used by architects and students of architecture in creating design priorities and making decisions that affect the built environment. This body of work is largely situated within architecture theory as it extends into the subject areas of design, diversity, equity & inclusion, advocacy, and pedagogy. She has published and presented internationally on posthumanist design and argues for the potential impact of architectural design informed by posthumanist philosophy.

With an accomplished record of advocating for the profession of architecture and the built environment, Kathryn Bedette served as Advocacy Chair on the AIA Georgia Board of Directors and as the 2018 President of AIA Georgia. As President, she led a successful national campaign to create a new leadership development pipeline that encourages a range of ethnically diverse women to pursue national American Institute of Architects leadership positions. She has also made a positive impact on the profession of architecture in multiple U.S. national professional service leadership roles and served as the NCARB Architect Licensing Advisor for Georgia from 2015 to 2021. Kathryn has been honored with the Emerging Voices Award, the AIA Atlanta James Gant Fausett, FAIA, Service to the Profession Award, and the AIA Georgia Educator of the Year Award. In 2018, she was named one of Engineering Georgia’s “100 Influential Women to Know”. Professor Bedette earned her B.S. in Architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, where she studied abroad at the Ecole d'Architecture Paris-Tolbiac, and her Master of Architecture from Arizona State University, where she studied abroad at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.

Beatriz Piccolotto Siqueira Bueno is graduated in History from University of São Paulo (DH-FFLCH-USP, 1990) and Visual Arts from Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado (FAAP, 1988), as well as Ph.D. in Architecture and Urbanism from University of São Paulo (FAUUSP, 2001). Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Urbanism, University of São Paulo, she has been teaching History of Urbanization and Urbanism since 2002, together with Professor Nestor Goulart Reis Filho, and developing research at the Architecture, Urbanization and Preservation Laboratory (LAP - USP) covering mainly the areas: history of urbanization and urbanism in Brazil; military architecture; military engineers; studies on material culture and cultural landscape; architects’ and engineers’ professional culture; history of cartography and heritage studies. Mainly book published: 1) Desenho e Desígnio: o Brasil dos engenheiros militares (Drawing and intention: Brazil and military engineers, 1500-1822) (EDUSP, 2011). She coordinated 2 dossiers on the history of urbanization in colonial Brazil for Anais do Museu Paulista (v. 20, 2012 and v. 29, 2021), and two further dossiers on cartography together with Iris Kantor (Anais do Museu Paulista, v. 17, n.1, 2009). Awarded CNPQ- PQ2 productivity grant since 2012 by Brazil’s federal government (CNPq - National Council for Scientific and Technological Development - Science and Technology Ministry), she is leader of CNPq Research Group "Landscape Archaeology”. Between 2007 and 2012 she was part of the team of the project Património de Origem Portuguesa no World: architecture and urbanism led by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation under the direction of José Mattoso. She participates also as consultant for the online portal (www.hpip.org). Between 2019-2022 she integrated with Alice Santiago Faria and Renata Malcher de Araújo the research project "TechNetEmpire: technical-scientific networks in the formation of the built environment in the Portuguese Empire (1647-1871)" funded by FCT.
Book - BUENO, B. P. S. Desenho e desígnio: o Brasil dos engenheiros militares (1500-1822). São Paulo: EDUSP/FAPESP, 2011. 456p. (Prêmio Jabuti - Indicação). Scholar (164 + 40 + 19)
Articles – BUENO, B. P. S. Introdução/ Cultura material e práticas sociais no Caminho do Viamão, Anais do Museu Paulista, 29, 1-9/ 1-87, 2021. (Dossiê Temático Org. Beatriz Bueno) Qualis A
Dossiê Anais Museu Paulista): v. 17 (n.1 e 2), 2004.
Dossiê Anais Museu Paulista): v. 20, 2012; v. 29, 2021.
Dossiê: História da Urbanização: v 29, 1-9/ 1-87, 2021.
Artigos Anais Museu Paulista: Dilatação dos confins, 17, 193-234, 2009(Google Scholar 77); Decifrando mapas, 12, 251-294, 2004 (Google Scholar 60); Tecido urbano e mercado imobiliário em São Paulo: metodologia de estudo com base na Décima Urbana de 1809, 13, 59-97, 2005 (Google Scholar 51); Do borrão às aguadas, 17, 111-153, 2009 (Google Scholar 40); Sistema de produção da arquitetura na cidade colonial brasileira, 20, 321-361,2012(Google Scholar 20).
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Dr. Shuva Chowdhury is a trained architect, educator, and researcher seeking innovative ways with advanced technology to leverage dialogues in architectural design processes and productions. His current research focuses on AI-generated spatial design, digital twin, and remote virtual co-design. He developed and implemented several computational, algorithmic logics in integrating online interfaces for stakeholders' active remote participation. His architectural design works got recommendations from the World Architecture Community, the Institute of Architects of Bangladesh, and the UN-Women. He founded an architectural design and research lab called Digital Urban Research and Innovation (DURI). He earned his Ph.D. in Architecture at the Victoria University of Wellington, NZ. The dissertation is titled "Virtual Environments as Medium for Laypeople's Communication and Collaboration in Urban Design ''. He was an aligned researcher in the National Science Challenge -NZ's research project – "Building Better, Homes, Towns and Cities (BBHTC) – Urban Wellbeing." His paper was awarded the best paper award in the 52nd Architectural Science Association Conference, RMIT, Melbourne. He was the lead topic editor of the Impact Journal Frontiers of Virtual Reality on "Metaverse in Co-Virtual City Design." Dr Chowdhury earned his M.Arch degrees from Mackintosh School of Architecture, UK, and UPC-BarcelonaTech, Spain, and his B.Arch from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET).

Prof. Dr. Sonay ÇEVİK, (MSc.) Architect KTU Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Trabzon-Türkiye
She graduated from KTU Department of Architecture in 1981. She started her academic life as a research assistant at the same university in 1982 and continued as a Professor Doctor at the same university from June 2000 to June 2011.
Between June 2011 and March 2013, She continued her educational, administrative activities,
and scientific studies as a founding faculty member - department head, and vice- rector of Avrasya University Department of Architecture.
She has been continuing her academic studies as a lecturer at the Department of Architecture at Karadeniz Technical University since June 2013. While she continued her administrative duties as dean at Karadeniz Technical University Faculty of Fine Arts in March 2014, she also served as acting head of the Painting, Sculpture, and Photography Departments. Hes term as GSF Dean ended in July 2020.
Between 1987 and 1989, she continued her doctoral studies at Berlin TU in Germany as a DAAD scholarship-invitee. Subsequently, she conducted research and gave lectures and conferences as an invited scholarship guest lecturer at Stuttgart University Urbanization Institute, Vienna Technical University and Hafen City Hamburg University many times. Joint Studies: Project, Workshop, Conference, Book, Exhibition, etc. are ongoing. Joint studies with these institutions and other University-Research institutions continue for both Education and Research purposes. In ther continuity, she will continue her studies at HFT Stuttgart as an invited guest lecturer within the scope of the sabbatical for a year starting from September 2023.
Joint works initiated as short projects in 2019; within the scope of design, exhibition and workshops in HFT Stuttgart, Germany in March 2019; It was then held at Trabzon-Turkey-KTU in October 2019, and then at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki/Greece in October 2022. These joint studies will continue as agreed between the three universities in HFT Stuttgart Germany in October 2023.
She has many publications and exhibitions on national and international platforms and many awards and honorable mentions in the architectural project

I am an architectural researcher working for social change in everyday spaces. Focusing on the history and transformation of welfare state housing areas, my research deals with users’ everyday practices, normative frameworks for the built environment, and architectural paperwork.
Revealing techniques for combining social and technical expertise, I activate archives, documents, oral histories or other memory material that record often uncomfortable architectural histories of landscapes, buildings and structures associated with marginalisation. The challenge of dealing with pasts, presents and futures in democracies is complex and I therefore link architectural history, creative practice, and ethnographic strategies to deal with different and even contradictory perspectives and needs of different actors and ressources.

Carlos Machado e Moura (Porto, Portugal; b. 1982) is an architect, curator and critic. He currently works at MAVAA arquitectos, is deputy editor-in-chief of the journal J–A Jornal Arquitectos (2022-25), and guest lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), where he is also a PhD candidate and researcher. Alongside, he is a consultant for Jofebar/panoramah!®.

He taught at the School of Architecture, Arts and Design of the University of Minho in Portugal (2022-25) and the Facoltà d'Architettura dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy (2009-10). He was a working group leader of action CA18126 Writing Urban Places, and he integrated the team responsible for curating the Portuguese Architecture Collection 2000-24 for Casa da Arquitectura (2023-24), and he is currently preparing an exhibition on Manuel Correia Fernandes for the same institution, due in November 2025. He was previously deputy curator of the "Physics of Portuguese Heritage" exhibition (DGPC/MAP, 2018-19) and the Open House Porto 2016 initiative. Carlos regularly publishes articles and participates in conferences and seminars, having published the books Repository (nai010, 2023), Building Views (Circo de Ideias, 2017) and Casas Quinhentistas de Castelo Branco (CMCB, 2008), among others.

He is co-author of architectural works like the Social Housing in Rua da Vitória (Porto, Portugal, 2019-23) and the Primary and Nursery School of Sant'Albino (Montepulciano , Italy, 2010-16), which was published in several international magazines like Bauwelt and Casabella. His work has received several recognitions, including the 3rd edition of Premio Architettura Toscana (2022), the 16th edition of Prémio Tavora (OASRN, 2020), an honourable mention in Premio Architetto Italiano 2020 (CNAPPC) and the Award of Merit of AZ Awards (AZURE, 2019). He was also a finalist of the 1st edition of the European Collective Housing Award (EIIA/Arc en Rêve, 2024), the Bauwelt Award (2017), and PremisFAD Ephemeral Interventions (2018), besides being selected for PremisFAD International (2017).

Dr Manfredini is the Director of Architecture, the Director of International Engagement, the Deputy Head, and an Associate Professor at the School of Architecture and Planning of The University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a Distinguished Professor at Shanghai University, China, and a Professor at Hunan University, China. He Co-Directs the Future Cities Research Centre and the Urban Relational Informatics Laboratory at the University of Auckland, the Future Regenerative and Differential Spaces Working Group of the SCL Hub of the Association of Pacific Rim Universities – APRU. He is a Registered Architect and Urban Planner in Italy. Dr Manfredini studied at Politecnico di Milano, La Sapienza University, Rome, and Technical University, Berlin. His core expertise is in comparative-conjunctural spatial studies with a focus on the contemporary transformation of production processes of space. Working at the intersection of interior architecture, architecture and urbanism, his research integrates methods and practice that combine cultural approaches with digitally advanced components, such as big data analytics and machine learning in three complementary areas:
(i) Urban social infrastructure and public space for translocal cities for the future development of transdisciplinary conjunctural and comparative research methodologies and applications addressing emerging issues in the mediatised multiscalar and recombinant “planetary urbanisation” context;
(ii) Co-creative, relational and solidary production of digitally augmented spatialities in our progressively transcultural and translocal society through differential and speculative critical approaches adopting a cosmopolitical approach and X-reality methodologies;
(iii) Recombinant, equitable and sustainable regenerative design for the implementation of multistakeholder incremental participatory processes for safe and sound cities through post-typological political ecology frameworks.
Dr Manfredini’s teaching and research leadership are widely recognised. As an educator, he taught at the world’s leading universities entire courses (e.g. Tsinghua University Beijing, Milan Technical University, and The City University of New York) and single lectures (e.g. the University of Stuttgart, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Parsons School of Design). As a researcher, he produced a large number of publications (100+ papers), was invited as an exhibitor at major international events (e.g., 2013 and 2019 Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen and Hong Kong and 2017 Rome Biennale of Public Space), and delivered keynote talks at premier international conferences (e.g., 2021 ICADE, Tsinghua University, and 9th China Housing Congress). As a designer and planner, he worked on multiple scales and in different continents, and received major awards, such as the Lion, first prize, at the world’s foremost architecture exhibition, the Venice Architecture Biennale. He worked for preeminent public administrations, such as Lombardy Housing Agency, and private organisations, like LVMH, Christian Dior and Kenzo. Distinctive of both his academic and professional career is his collaboration with prominent educators and designers, such as Andrea Branzi (Archizoom), Mauro Staccioli (Brera Fine Arts College, Milan), Bruno Munari and Colin Fournier (The Bartlett – UCL and Archigram).

Vítor Oliveira is the president of the INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON URBAN FORM - ISUF, principal researcher with habilitation at the Research Centre for Territory, Transports and Environment - CITTA / FEUP and professor of Urban Morphology and Spatial Planning at UL. He is associate editor of Urban Morphology, advisory editor of The Urban Book Series - Springer, Fouding Editor of the Revista de Morfologia Urbana (2013-18), and past president of the Portuguese-language Network of Urban Morphology - PNUM (2011-13, 2017-23).

His latest books are ISUF. URBAN MORPHOLOGY AND HUMAN SETTLEMENTS (2024), URBAN MORPHOLOGY. AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL FORM OF CITIES (2022, 2016; translated to Chinese, Persian, Portuguese and Turkish), MORPHOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN PLANNING, URBAN DESIGN AND ARCHITECTURE (2021), JWR WHITEHAND AND THE HISTORICO-GEOGRAPHICAL APPROACH TO URBAN MORPHOLOGY (2019) and TEACHING URBAN MORPHOLOGY (2018). He has translated to Portuguese, with C Monteiro, the classic book ALNWICK, NORTHUMBERLAND: A STUDY IN TOWN-PLAN ANALYSIS by MRG Conzen. His books and papers (50 of which in ISI or Scopus journals) received about 3.250 citations (Google Scholar). His architectural design of LINDO VALE HOUSE, with C Monteiro, illustrates some of his core ideas on the ground plan and narrow plots.

Ahmet Melih ÖKSÜZ graduated from Department of Architecture at Karadeniz Technical University in 1985. In the same department, he completed his master's degree in the field of urbanism in 1988 with his thesis titled " Zoning burdens imposed on city plans by the zoning amnesty (Implementation of law no. 2981 and its results: The example of Trabzon)“. In 1997, he completed his doctorate with the thesis titled "A model that can be used to predict the dimensions and spatial distribution of urban functions-vector autoregression: The example of Trabzon". Currently, he is the head of the Department of Urbanism in the Architecture Department of the Faculty of Architecture at Karadeniz Technical University and continues his education, training and research activities.

Born in 1964 in Trabzon, İlkay Özdemir graduated from the Department of Architecture at KTÜ (Karadeniz Technical University) in 1985. He completed his Master's degree at the Institute of Science at the same university with a thesis titled “A Study on Living Space Accessories” in 1988, and his Doctorate in 1994 with a thesis titled “The Concept of Spatial Organization in the Evaluation of Architectural Space: Living Spaces in Housing.” In 1996, he was appointed Assistant Professor to the Building Information Department of KTÜ Architecture. In 2004, he spent three months at Liverpool Hope University in the UK for research and analysis, and language instruction. He received the title of Associate Professor in 2008, and Professor in 2014.
She served intermittently as Vice Dean of the KTU Faculty of Architecture between 2009 and 2014, as Head of the KTU Department of Architecture between 2014 and 2017, and as Dean of the KTU Faculty of Architecture between 2017 and 2021. She served on the Board of Directors and Faculty Councils between 2009 and 2021.
She has numerous articles, book chapters, and papers presented at scientific meetings, both internationally and nationally. She has served as a director, researcher, and advisor on 12 scientific research projects, including those sponsored by TUBITAK and BAP. She has also completed 13 master's theses and 6 doctoral theses under her supervision. She currently continues her academic work as a faculty member in the KTU Department of Architecture. She is a member of the TMMOB Chamber of Architects, MimED, and the MİAK-MAK Visiting Team.

Since high-school I had an inclination towards architecture. I studied Architecture at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1975-1981) and then went to the USA for graduate studies at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (1983-1985). During this time I became interested in technology and sustainability, especially in passive solar design and in computers. During my years in San Luis Obispo I became also acquainted with perceptual psychology when I chose to design a space colony using inflatable structures for my thesis. A few years later I did a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan (1989-1996) on a subject that had attracted my attention during my undergraduate studies, which was the atmosphere that was generated within certain religious buildings. I was interested in pushing the limits of architecture, to try to see what architecture can be apart from simply serving various rather mundane functions or aiming at provocative or unjustifiable form. So I began investigating the atmosphere of Byzantine churches which became the topic of my dissertation. Even though I got involved more and more with an academic environment I kept being active as an architecture professional. At the University of Michigan I was fortunate to meet Rudolf Arnheim, the foremost specialist in Gestalt Perceptual Psychology who supervised my dissertation.

Vjekoslava Sanković Simčić completed her architecture degree at the University of Sarajevo in 1969. She joined the program at the International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) at the University of Rome. In 1971, she finalized her graduate studies at ICCROM on the topic of the revitalization of the town of Počitelj, one of the major historical Ottoman-established sites of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Upon her return to Sarajevo in 1971,  she commenced her professional career in heritage preservation at the Institute for Protection of Cultural and Natural Heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina. Her 1973 academic appointment at the Architecture Faculty at the University of Sarajevo provided opportunities for her to connect practice to teaching. In 2001, she was appointed a Professor of Architecture at the University of Sarajevo.

Vjekoslava Sanković Simčić’s work on heritage sites spanned decades and included a range of projects from large scale proposals for the revitalization of old towns such as Počitelj in Bosnia and Hercegovina (1971/73/81) and Korčula in Croatia (1970), to the restoration of historical houses.

Following the 1992/96 war in former Yugoslavia, she played an active role in the restoration of the damaged historic structures. Despite having been a signatory of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict since 1955, the 1992-96 armed conflict saw Yugoslavia’s cultural heritage degraded and significantly destroyed. In 2007, she initiated the establishment of the ICOMOS National Committee for the newly created state of Bosnia and Hercegovina and presided the committee from 2007 to 2019.
A recipient of numerous awards for her lifelong contribution, including: the 40 year Jubilee award for her contribution to the protection of the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina awarded in 1976; the Conservation Society of Yugoslavia’s Medal for the protection of cultural heritage from in 1985; and the Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the protection of the cultural heritage of Bosnia and Hercegovina in 2004. She is a member of various expert committees and the author of many scholarly and professional articles including the book Revitalization of heritage fabric – Integration of Old and New (Revitalizacija graditeljske baštine – Integracija staro-novo, NNP Naša riječ d.o.o., Sarajevo 2000).

Professor Marc Aurel Schnabel is a renowned expert in digital design, digital transformation and extended reality environments, with a distinguished career in architecture and design education spanning over 25 years in Germany, China, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Now, as the Dean of the Design School at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, he guides four departments – Architecture, Civil Engineering, Industrial Design, and Urban Planning and Design – and their research centres.
Previously, he was the Founding Director of the FORUM8 Research Lab, which is the market leader in Japan for virtual city/building simulation, at Cambridge Innovation Center in Tokyo. As Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Design Innovation and Chair Professor of Architectural Technology at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, he significantly contributed to advancing higher education in the creative fields.
Trained as an Architect, Professor Schnabel has been the President of several professional organisations, including the Architectural Science Association (ANZAScA), the Association for Computer-Aided Architectural Design Research in Asia (CAADRIA), and the Autodesk Industry Advisory Board.
Professor Schnabel has also researched virtual reality, digital heritage, and intelligent cities as a Principal Investigator of New Zealand’s National Science Challenge, “Better Homes, Towns, and Cities”. He has received several significant honours, including being made a CAADRIA Fellow, joining the Austrian Science Fund’s PEEK Board as an expert in architecture and design, and becoming a partner of the European Union’s REACH (RE-designing Access to Cultural Heritage) project.
Throughout his career, Professor Schnabel has published extensively on digital architecture, urban design, and augmented/virtual realities and has curated several digital architectural exhibitions, including “Ars Electronica Aotearoa”. He has also established the Digital Architecture Research Alliance (DARA) and the online network Urban Digitalics, connecting professionals and researchers in innovative digital design. Professor Schnabel’s leadership and expertise in the field have made him a sought-after speaker and chair of leading international conferences.

Burak Asiliskender is a Professor of Architecture at Abdullah Gül University and the Dean of the School of Architecture. He has been also working as the Advisor to the Rector for Education. He was former -and founding- chair of the AGU Department of Architecture. He studies on architectural theory and design; space, place making, spaces and identities in transition, in particular. He has several publications on the architecture and identity, space and place concepts, transformations of space and cities. He has been involved in the design and implementation projects for the restoration and adaptive re-use of former Sümerbank Kayseri Textile Factory as AGU campus.

She graduated from Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, getting the first graduate degree in 1993.
She completed her master degree, with the thesis on “The Effects of Cubism on Modernism and Post Modernism” in January 1996. She won an international competition on “Ph.D. Thesis in Architecture”, organized by BRI: Building Research & Information (The International Journal of Research, Development, Demonstration & Innovation) in United Kingdom, in 1999 with her thesis “Concept, Conception, Conceptual Analysis in Aesthetics and Architecture: Sampling on the Works of Architecture after 1980”.
She still works as a Professor at Karadeniz Technical University, Department of Architecture, leading the “Architectural Design” and “Basic Design” Studios, teaching the courses of “Theory of Architecture”, “Theory of Art”, “Aesthetics”, “The Dialog of Art and Architecture in 20th Century”, “Cinema and Architecture” and is the author of many related works.

She completed her undergraduate, master's, and doctoral studies at Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Department of Architecture. Her areas of study can be classified under the main headings of "architectural theory", "architectural design", and "architectural education". She has primarily written papers and articles on these subjects and contributed to book chapters. She has supervised master's and doctoral theses and has taken part in seminars, congresses, research, workshops, and similar activities within her own department and in various architecture departments at national and international levels. She has been serving as a professor in KTU's Department of Architecture since 2018.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Odeta Manahasa graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Middle East Technical University in 2005 and 2008, respectively. She graduated with a PhD degree in architecture from Istanbul Technical University in 2017. She is a senior lecturer at a private university, teaching Basic Design course since 2008.

In her dissertation, “ Children Participation and Post Occupancy Evaluation in Developing a Communicative Language to (Re)Design Educational Environments”, she uses the children's space experience as a tool for participation, to offer a new perspective on the participatory design discourse on the levels of participation.

In addition, she has a long-standing interest in understanding environmental psychology in its larger context, particularly in relation to child and child space perception. She is developing this interest as two lines of inquiry: (i) child space perception knowledge, with a focus on a systematic structure for thinking on environmental behavior phenomena from different methodological perspectives, and (ii) improving the quality of learning environments.

Thus, her areas of expertise and research interest include: architectural education, children and architecture (e.g. children’s participation in architectural design), participatory design, school design, environmental psychology, post occupancy evaluation, and environmental behavior and design.  

Architect. Graduated from the Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.), Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey (B.Arch. 2000). Received her M.Arch Degree, with the topic " Re-framing Architecture: METU Faculty of Architecture and its Photographic Reproduction”, in 2001, at the M.E.T.U. Received her Ph.D. Degree in 2008, at the same department with the topic “Re-thinking the Limits of Architecture through the Avant-Garde Formations during the 1960s: Projections and Receptions in the Context of Turkey”. Teaching as a Professor at Dokuz Eylul University, Izmir, Turkey. Her fields of interest include “architectural history, theory and criticism”, “architectural avant-garde”, “architectural photography”, “visuality, and architectural representation”, "modernity and modern architecture", “tourism architecture”.

He completed his undergraduate education at Anadolu University Department of Architecture (1989), his master's degree at Anadolu University Institute of Science (1994) and his doctorate at Istanbul Technical University Institute of Science Urban Design Programme (1999). He began his academic career in 1991 and worked at Anadolu University until 2018. Since 2018, he has been working at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Eskişehir Technical University. His research focuses primarily on urban design, architectural design, the design of public spaces, housing, universal design (inclusive design, design for all), and accessibility in urban and architectural design. His work focuses on accessibility in architectural and urban areas, universal design/design for all/inclusive design, and the participation of vulnerable groups in daily life. In addition to his national and international academic and professional work (articles, papers, book chapters, books, editing, competition jury membership, competition awards, exhibitions, etc.), he has also carried out projects in the fields of architectural and urban design.

Levent Arıdağ is an Associate Professor at Gebze Technical University. He received her PhD degree from İstanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2005. His work aims to develop the relational thinking capacities of the architecture in its relationship with design technologies. He won several prizes in national and international architectural competitions. His research areas are; architectural design, eco-design, performance-based design, architectural education, architectural design theories and strategies. 

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. 

Catarina Ferreira Carreto, graduated in interior design and equipment. In 2018, she completed her PhD in Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, with the theme “Design for the democratization of culture: The museum store”, where she also completed the Advanced Studies in Design course. She teaches at the School of Education, Communication and Sports and at the School of Technology and Management of the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda. She is a researcher at the Research Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Design at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon. She has presented several communications at international congresses and conferences on his research areas.

SERAP DURMUŞ ÖZTÜRK, B.Arch, M.Sc., PhD.
Received her B.Arch (2006), MSc. (2009) and PhD. (2014) degrees in architecture from Karadeniz Technical University (KTU), Faculty of Architecture. Was awarded the Serhat Ozyar Young Scientist Award for Social Sciences in 2015. Currently works at Karadeniz Technical University as a Professor. Major research interests include rhetoric, architectural theory, spatial theory and urban narratives

Dr. Gawad is a Professor of Sustainable Architecture, with academic leadership experience in international organizations. She has served the International Union of Architects UIA in various capacities, including working as the Co-Director of UIA Commission on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, a member of the UIA Education Commission, Vice-chair of UNESCO-UIA Validation report group, a jury member at international architectural competitions, and a speaker at various UIA International Forums. She is also the Chairperson of the Africa Union of Architects’ AUA Habitat and Environment Commission, a Council Member of the Union of Mediterranean Architects UMAR, and an Elected Board Member of the Society of Egyptian Architects.
As a Full Professor at the British University in Egypt and Helwan University, she has an extensive publication record in international journals and has served as a member of the Editorial and Reviewing Committee for respective books and international conferences.

Reyhan Midilli Sarı received her bachelor's (2001), master's (2005), and Ph.D. (2009) degrees from the Department of Architecture at Karadeniz Technical University. She continues her academic career at the same institution, serving as a faculty member in the Department of Building Science within the Faculty of Architecture. Since her doctoral studies, Dr. Midilli Sarı has focused particularly on user-centered design approaches, and her research is shaped within the framework of social sustainability, user satisfaction, and accessibility principles in architecture. Her research interests include educational buildings, universal and inclusive design, design for the elderly, post-occupancy evaluation, and participatory design.

Selin Oktan completed her undergraduate studies at Eskişehir Osmangazi University and earned her master’s and doctoral degrees at Karadeniz Technical University. She participated in academic exchanges at the University of Stuttgart and the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC) within the scope of the Erasmus program. Her interests include computational thinking, digital design, digital fabrication, and education. In addition to her position in the Department of Architecture, she has been working on digital design, digital fabrication, and artificial intelligence as part of KTU CODE FAB since 2018.

Lale Özgenel has been a faculty member at the Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University (METU), since 1992. She received her bachelor’s degree in architecture, her master's degree in architectural history and her doctorate in architecture from the Department of Architecture at METU. She conducted postdoctoral research at Oxford University, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and the American Academy in Rome. She has also worked as an architect and survey team member on international archaeological projects. She has held several academic and administrative positions, including Advisor to the Rector of METU (2008-2016), Head of the Fine Arts and Music Department at METU (2011-2016), Head of Architectural History Graduate Program at METU (2012-2015), Member of the Board of Trustees at TED University (2015-2018) and President of the Architects’ Association 1927 (2016-2021). In collaboration with various academic institutions and non-governmental organizations, she has developed national and international projects with a focus on architectural history, architectural education, professional practice and architectural culture, and organized numerous academic and professional events. Her research interests include ancient domestic architecture, the history of housing and daily life, rural architecture and the history of tennis in Turkey. She teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in architectural history and leads a group in the 4th year architectural design studio. She actively engages in architectural practice through architectural competitions and architectural design research and consultancy projects carried out under the university's revolving fund. Her professional experience and expertise span architectural design, implementation and programming, particularly in residential, educational and cultural buildings. Since 2019 she has served as vice president of Ankara Citizens’ Assembly, working with a broad network of individuals, institutions and organizations to support local governance and contribute to the development of Ankara.

Associate Professor, Architectural Design and Critical Interdisciplinary Approaches to Design.

Nikolas Patsavos (Athens, 1977), Dipl Arch AUTH, is the co-founding and managing partner of the architecture platform Ctrl_Space Lab, and the project architect for a series of research and applied projects, workshops, publications and exhibitions. Since 2001, he has been a researcher at the AA Graduate School, the British School at Rome, the NTUA, TU Crete and the University of Thessaly. He has been teaching architecture design and theory-critique, at both undergraduate and graduate level, since 2003, at the AA, TU Crete, and the Universities of Thessaly, Nicosia and Frederick (CY), and at Ioannina since the foundation of the School at 2015. Research interests: postindustrial architectural culture and knowledge, strategic design, ekistics, sustainable heritage, design methods.

Evangellia Paxinou is an engineer architect (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – A.U.TH), holds a DEA Ambiances Architecturales et Urbaines (ENSA de Grenoble), and a PhD in Architecture (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki – A.U.TH). She is an Associated Researcher at CRESSON, AAU Laboratory (Ambiances Architecturales et Urbaines), Université Grenoble Alpes, France.

Her research axes focus on the creation of atmosphere in architecture and the architectural design of public spaces. She is currently working as an architect in the public service of Volos city municipality, in charge of public spaces and public building design. She has also worked in private architectural offices in Greece and in France.

Architect. Graduated from the Gazi University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey (B.Arch. 2003). Received her M.Arch Degree, with the topic " A study on indoor and outdoor space organizations at preschool education centers, regarding the education theories”, in 2006, at  Gazi University. Received her Ph.D. Degree in 2020, with the topic “An Exemplar Analysis and Method Proposal Intended for Development of Open Spaces Along Auto-Transport Corridors in Expanding Cities as Urban Public Space”. Supervised master's and doctoral theses and has taken part in seminars, congresses, research, workshops, and similar activities within her department and in various architecture departments at national and international levels. Teaching as  Assoc. Professor at Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey. Her fields of interest include “Urban design”, “Architectural Design”, “Land Use and Environmental Planning”, “Urban Space – Public Space”.

Gürkan TOPALOĞLU's academic journey has been shaped at Karadeniz Technical University. He completed his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Department of Architecture between 2005 and 2013. He then earned his Ph.D. in architecture from the Institute of Natural and Applied Sciences at the same university in 2019.
Currently, Dr. TOPALOĞLU works as an Assistant Professor at Karadeniz Technical University. His main research interests include biennials, discourse in architecture, and basic design education.

Aslihan Öztürk is currently an assistant professor at the faculty of architecture at Karadeniz Technical University. Her general areas of interest are cultural heritage sites and museums, memory spaces, museum designs, emotional and interactive spaces.

Lect. PhD NİLGÜNMÜFTÜOĞLU
Personal Information
Email: nmuftuoglu@ktu.edu.tr
Web: https://avesis.ktu.edu.tr//nmuftuoglu
Address: Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Yabancı Diler Yüksekokulu
Education
Doctorate, Karadeniz Technical University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı , Türkiye 2009 -2018
Post-graduate, Karadeniz Technical University, Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, Türkiye 2005 -2008
Under-graduate, Hacetepe University, Edebiyat Fakültesi, İngiliz Dili ve Edebiyatı, Türkiye 2001 -2005
Research Areas
Social Sciences and Humanities, Philology, Western Languages and Literatures, English Language and Literature
Academic Positions
Lecturer PhD, Karadeniz Technical University, Yabancı Diller Yüksekokulu, Mütercim-Tercümanlık, 2008 -Continues
Articles Published in Other Journals
I. Female Homosocial Desire in Sarah Fielding's The Governess, or Little Female Academy (1749)
MÜFTÜOĞLU N., ÇIRAKLI M.Z.
NALANS: Journal of Narrative and Language Studies, vol.7, no.12, pp.78-90, 2019 (Scopus)
Papers Presented at Peer-Reviewed Scientific Conferences
I. Learning Settings asMaternal Space in Sarah Fielding’s The Governess; or, The Little Female
Academy
Çıraklı M.Z., Müftüoğlu N.
Uluslararası Pegem Eğitim Kongresi: Toplumsal Vicdanın Geliştirilmesinde Eğitimin Rolü ,Diyarbakır,Turkey,16 -
19 September 2020,pp.73, (SummaryText)
I . THE INFLUENCE OF HOMOSOCIAL BONDS ON HAYRİ İRDAL AS CHARACTER IN AHMET HAMDİ
TANPINAR’S THE TIME REGULATION INSTITUTE
ÇIRAKLI M.Z., MÜFTÜOĞLU N.
“5.ULUSLARARASIELRUHASOSYALBİLİMLERKONGRESİ,Tunisia,3 -05October 2019
I I. Male Homosocial Desire as Represented in the Fictional World of Henry Fielding’s TomJones
ÇIRAKLI M.Z., MÜFTÜOĞLU N.
ISLET-2017 3. International Symposium on Language, Education and Teaching, ROMA, Italy, 20 April -23 May 2017,
pp.84, (SummaryText)

Non Academic Experience
MİLLİ EĞİTİM BAKANLIĞI, Öğretmen (2005-2008)

She graduated from the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Architecture at Karadeniz Technical University in 2019. Between 2021-2023, she worked as a research assistant at the Department of Architecture of the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture at Malatya Turgut Ozal University. In 2021, she completed her master's degree in Architecture at the Department of Architecture of the Institute of Science at Karadeniz Technical University with thesis titled 'Temporary Disaster Housing With Wood Modular Prefabricated Systems' . In 2022, she started her doctorate in the Building Sciences Program of the Department of Architecture at Istanbul Technical University Institute of Graduate Education. Since 2023, she has been working as a master architect at Karadeniz Technical University, Project Design Office.