Bilkent University Social Space Lab
Bilkent University · FADA

The social production of space.

An initiative that brings together researchers from the Departments of Architecture (ARCH), Interior Architecture and Environmental Design (IAED) and Urban Design and Landscape Architecture (LAUD) at Bilkent University around a shared research platform focused on the social production, politics, and experience of space.

Research focus

Disaster urbanization.

Afet Kentleşmesi

Disaster urbanization

A research focus that approaches earthquakes and other catastrophes not as purely natural events, but as outcomes of the urbanization processes that precede them.

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TÜBİTAK 1001, urbanization & earthquake vulnerability

Small and mid-size cities of the 2023 Kahramanmaraş region: Antakya, Adıyaman, Elbistan, İslahiye, Gölbaşı.

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Post-Disaster Recovery Atlas Working Group

Grown out of ARCH 564 Space and Culture, examining the socio-spatial aftermath of the February 2023 earthquakes.

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People

The people of the Lab.

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Bülent Batuman

Bülent Batuman

ARCH / LAUD
Yiğit Acar

Yiğit Acar

ARCH
Emine Çiğdem Asrav

Emine Ç. Asrav

ARCH
Onur Tümtürk

Onur Tümtürk

LAUD
Meltem Al

Meltem Al

IAED
Pınar Sezginalp

Pınar Sezginalp

IAED
Contact

Social Space Lab, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Bilkent University.

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