Today, within the scope of Famagusta Dialogues—a joint initiative of the Departments of Architecture at Bilkent University and Eastern Mediterranean University—I delivered my talk titled “Emotional Geographies and Urban Futures of Famagusta”. I tried to share with Bilkent’s third-year architectural design studio ways of reading Famagusta not only as a physical fabric, but through the lenses of memory, emotion, traces of conflict/conciliation, and possible…
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AI for Architecture Students: Studio Skills and Future Practice
In recent years, artificial intelligence has become increasingly visible in architectural practice and education. This visibility calls for a deeper reflection—not only on how we use these tools, but on how we position ourselves in relation to them. When I initiated the AI in Architecture seminar series, my primary motivation was to open up a…
Shattered Grounds, Unbroken Place Identity: The Emotional Geography of Hatay Post-Earthquake
Our article titled “Shattered Grounds, Unbroken Place Identity: The Emotional Geography of Hatay Post-Earthquake”has been published in the 56th issue (August 2025) of Emotion, Space and Society. A person builds a place not merely as a geography they inhabit, but as a whole of meanings in which they weave their memory, identity, and emotions. A person remembers…
“Varosha, la ville Otage” documentary by Sylvie Deleule
For those of us born after 1974, life on this divided island often came with the myth that Cypriots were content with the status quo. But growing up in an involuntarily abandoned Greek Cypriot home in Kato Varosha—and constantly asking my father about our city’s suspended reality—led me to scientifically explore the truths of displacement,…
Second Annual Research Day
I would like to thank the EMU Department of Architecture, my colleagues, guest scholars who joined us from abroad, and students for the opportunity to share our research projects, exchange ideas, and present my “urban grotesque” theory. On Friday (17.01.25), in A04 at the Faculty of Architecture (Colored Building, 14:00–15:15), I shared my research journey…
20th Annual Canova International Architect Encounter 2024
What an honor it was to return to Domodossola after 10 years as an invited participant of the 20th Canova International Architect Encounter! The city of Domodossola hosted this special edition, where I was one of the 23 international architects from 13 countries, representing Cyprus, gathered to reimagine the historic Collegio Rosmini. The event also…
Emotional Vortexes and Place Transmutations / Duygusal Girdaplar ve Yer Dönüşümleri
8th International Conference on New Trends in Architecture and Interior Design 2022” held in Cyprus this year after Dubai, Croatia, Finland, Russia and Turkey. I am pleased to be one of the keynote speakers with my presentation titled “Emotional Vortexes and Place Transmutations” For this meaningful organization and kind invitation, I would like to thank…
Praxis of urban peacebuilding in Famagusta Cyprus
I would like to thank Cyprus Network of Urban Morphology, and organizing committee for inviting me to share my experience and thoughts on urban peace-building. Over 9 years, we tried to generate as a multi-communal movement and to introduce the parameters of establishing a peace infrastructure set forth by the ecocity principles. Our efforts have…
The 10th Annual Eurasian Peace Science Conference
Turkish Text follows / Türkçe metin alttadır It felt amazing to come together with peace scholars around the world at the 10th Annual Eurasian Peace Science Conference during these haptic times!It was an honor to present my insights at the roundtable “Urban Peacebuilding in Times of a Pandemic” chaired by Dan Miodownik (The Hebrew University…
2020 Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi Akademik Araştırmacı Teşvik Ödülü
Doğu Akdeniz Üniversitesi tarafından “2020 yılı Akademik Araştırmacı Teşvik Ödülü”ne layık gördüğüm için çok mutluyum. 2020 hepimiz için unutulmaz bir yıl oldu. Covid19 küresel salgını, 2020 yılı için planladığım ve hedeflediğim bir çok çalışmayı sabote etse de yoğun geçmişti: SSCI kapsamında 1 yayın; 1 bilimsel pod-cast Journal of Environmental Psychology dergisinde 3 hakemlik İdeal Kent…
Inspireli Awards community grows
Inspireli Awards community grows with new entries and always happy to provide feedback to the architecture students all over the world. For sure competitions supply wide laboratory to exercise new ideas, take place in a larger architecture community and it is very important for an architecture student’s progress in our profession. I wish all the…
“Mekansal Mutasyonlar” Mimarca Dergisi’nin 91. sayısında
Çok değerli meslektaşlarım Abdullah Can ve Münevver Özgür Özersay’a, Mimarca Dergisi’nin 91. ”Çevrimiçi: Dijital Mekanlar” özel sayısının Kitap Eleştirisi köşesinde, Mekansal Mustasyonlar podcastıma yer verdiklerinden dolayı, çok teşekkür ederim. Podcast Değerlendirme: Mekansal Mutasyonlar Ceren Boğaç Yayına Hazırlayanlar: Abdullah Can Münevver Özgür Özersay Özet: Bu yazı, Mimarca’nın her sayısında tema ile ilişkili yeni kitapların tanıtıldığı Kitap Eleştirisi…
Peace Building for Cyprus in New York City
I was given the opportunity to teach an advanced architectural design studio (Arch401), together with distinguished Professor Dagmar Richter, at the Pratt Institute School of Architecture as a Fulbright visiting scholar during the 2020 spring semester. I feel honored to have celebrated one of our students winning the Michael Hollander Drawing Excellence Award with his transforming “Nicosia Airport into a Gray…
Bölünmüşlük Barış Getirmez
Bölünmüşlük barış getirmez, sınırlar insanları birleştirmez. İnsan doğaya hükmedemez ve empati yoksunluğumuz yükseldikçe, böylesi bir ortamda barış düzeni oluşturmak daha da zorlaşır. Hem doğa hem de insanla olan savaşlarla talan edilmiş, bölünmüş hiçbir düzen ve mekânsal düzlem, parça parça reformlarla kurgulandığı zaman, uzlaştırıcı bir zemine dönüşmez… Dr. Alexandra Novosseloff ile “Kıbrıs’ta BM Barış Gücü’nin (UNFICYP)…
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