Hi! I'm a UK-based multidisciplinary designer specialising in graphic design, brand identity and motion graphics, with a practice extending into exhibition and spatial design.
My portfolio brings together professional commissions for commercial, cultural and academic organisations alongside independent artistic projects and research-led visualisations.
CV.
Education
2024-2028*
PhD in History, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Thesis: Deep Mapping 'Meandering' Histories: Socio-ecologies of the ‘Menderes' River and the Imperial Smyrna-Aidin Railway
FASS Departmental Scholarship
2021-2023
MA in Design, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, TR
Thesis: Critical Perspectives of Art on the Urgency of Redefining the Vital in the Anthropocene
Full Graduate Scholarship & TUBİTAK National Studentship Program for Master Students
2018-2019
BArch, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, ETSAM, Madrid, ES
Erasmus Exchange Scholarship
2014-2020
BArch, Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Istanbul, TR
1884 Vakfi Undergraduate Scholarship
Professional Experience
June 2026
Exhibition Co-Curator & Designer
Social History Society (SHS), Lancaster, UK
August 2025
Architectural Assistant
Lancaster University, Faculty of Architecture, Lancaster, UK
2022-2024
Research Assistant
Istanbul Medeniyet University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Istanbul, TR
2021-2022
Exhibition Designer
karşılaşmalar/Lamarts, Istanbul, TR
2020-present (project-based)
Lead Designer
Creathing Digital Agency, Istanbul, TR
Publication
Lost Heritage: The Entangled Story of the Maltepe Venus and Marine Mucilage in the Sea of Marmara, EPOCH Magazine, December 1, 2025
https://www.epoch-magazine.com/post/lost-heritage-the-entangled-story-of-the-maltepe-venus-and-marine-mucilage-in-the-sea-of-marmara
Atmak ya da Atmamak, İşte Bütün İktidar Meselesi Bu! [To Throw or Not to Throw, That’s the Power Question!], in Halının Altındakiler: Antroposen, Atık ve Sürdürülebilirlik [Those Under the Carpet: Anthropocene, Waste and Sustainability], edited by Ö. Oğuzhan, Istanbul: Istanbul Medeniyet University Press, 2023.
https://artimu.org/assets/books/halinin-altindakiler-antroposen-atik-ve-surdurulebilirlik.pdf
Conference Presentation
'Hidden, Unknown, Unnamed’: Imperial Visions and the Displacement of Antiquities along the Smyrna–Aidin Railway, SHS 50th Anniversary Conference, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, July 1-3, 2026
British Cartographic Construction of the Smyrna-Aidin Railway in Western Anatolia, Legacy & Lens: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future, Lancaster Historical Postgraduate Conference (LHPC), Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, June 24-26, 2026
Tracing the Sound of Seikilos: Imperialism, Landscape Transformation, and Heritage Displacement in Western Anatolia, AnatoLinks: Connections Within and Beyond Ancient Anatolia, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, December 4-5, 2025
Sanatçı Pierre Huyghe’un Çağdaş Ekosistemlerinde Antroposen Söylemini Yeniden Düşünmek [Rethinking the Anthropocene Discourse in Contemporary Ecosystems of the Artist Pierre Huyghe, Poedat Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, April 7-9, 2023