Talks, conferences, panel discussions, and workshops that I have contributed to through content development and programming, or participated in as a speaker, moderator, or guest.
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Muammer Karaca Theatre, Foyer (Beyoğlu, Istanbul) ·
We explore the historical legacy of Muammer Karaca Theatre, a key part of Beyoğlu’s theatrical memory since 1955, and its architectural transformation through restoration.
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Manisa Liberation Museum ·
How can architecture tell the story of a city? At the Manisa Liberation Museum, I joined the museum’s curator, Heval Zeliha Yüksel, and its architect, Ömer Selçuk Baz, to discuss this question.
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Adana Museum Complex ·
On 17 October 2026, I joined Buket Uzuner at the Adana Architecture Festival for a conversation on fiction, architecture and literature.
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Kaleseramik Çan Factory garden ·
On the second day of Yalın Şeyler Çanakkale, we gathered at Kalebodur’s production facilities in Çan.
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Troy Museum garden ·
We came together with Bengü Cennet Coşkun and Ömer Selçuk Baz beneath a great oak tree in the garden of the Troy Museum, designed by Yalın Mimarlık.
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Sibel Keyvan, Ertuğ Uçar and I created İstanbulin Conversations to share our curiosity about Istanbul. At Minoa Pera, guests from different fields join us to talk about what makes Istanbul Istanbul.
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Salt Galata, Istanbul ·
On 11 December 2025, we shared Yalın Şeyler at Salt Galata with friends from architecture, design, arts and culture, with those who had contributed to the book, and with journalists.
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MARUF 2025, C11-Creative Stage ·
At MARUF 2025, I moderated a panel with Ertuğ Uçar, Aysun Altındağ and Oğul Can Öztunç on ways of telling the city through words and drawings.
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I was a guest for two episodes of the Ariadne'nin İpi podcast, which offers pleasant conversations on art, psychology and philosophy.
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Tuna Ofis Conversations, produced together by Tuna Ofis and Arkitera and moderated by me.
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Sofitel Istanbul Taksim ·
During my time as a consultant to İstanbulSMD, where I’m also an honorary member, I developed What Is Architecture For? and co-curated it with Ertuğ Uçar, co-founder of TEĞET Architecture. I also moderated the conference.
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I developed Architecture in the Making for İstanbulSMD, the Istanbul Association of Architects in Private Practice, of which I am an honorary member. I prepared the series’ content and served as its moderator. The seven-episode series aims to highlight the collaboration across disciplines behind high-quality architectural projects.
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On 3 October 2022, World Architecture Day, I moderated a Baumit Türkiye talk with Ece Ceylan Baba and Atalay Özdayı on architecture for well-being.
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The recent history of architecture in Türkiye, told by the architects who shaped it. In Ustalara Saygı, the seven-part series I developed and presented, I look at the people behind the buildings, their careers and the architectural culture of a changing country.
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Talks with architects at the Ode Select meetings.
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The Architect's Colour, held in coordination with AXALTA and DAC, is a series of conversations focused on colour with architects who make a difference through their professional practice and also through their intellectual background and interests.
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At Mimarşiv Selection I spoke with Han Tümertekin on why the architect has no luxury of pessimism, after the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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I was a guest of Prof. Dr Abdi Güzer on Architects Talk with Kalebodur, the monthly series Kalebodur began in 2013 for an architecture archive in Türkiye.
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At Mimarşiv Selection 2018, Durmuş Dilekçi, Murat Germen and I talked at Swissotel The Bosphorus about architecture, the city, time and the human.
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Bomonti ham:m Plus ·
On the evening of 28 September 2017, at the first ham:mzemin event at Bomonti ham:m Plus, I moderated the Miras panel with Nevzat Sayın, Sinan Logie and Sevil Dolmacı.