Settlements and Displacement in Turkey: Struggle and Rejuvenation

About

Ela Alanyal Aral is an Associate Professor of Architecture at Middle East Technical University Ankara. After receiving her Ms.Science degree in Architecture on the Visual Structuring of Ankara she studied the Potentialities of Leftover Spaces for the Public Realm in her Ph.D. (METU) and Creative Mapping in Architecture in her post-doc studies (TUDelft). Ela Alanyal Aral has several printed articles in international journals such as Landscape Research and METU Journal of Faculty of Architecture. She is the editor of the book Mapping Syrian Migration Migrant Spaces in Ankara (2018 Ankara: METU Faculty of Architecture Press). She has continued her research on creative mapping techniques displacement in the urban context and possible contributions of leftover spaces to the city and the Ankara tumuli.Özlem Erdogdu Erkarslan obtained her undergraduate master's and doctoral degrees from the Department of Architecture at Dokuz Eylül University. She started her research on gender and space issues related to her previous research areas in the early 2000s. In 2002 she was awarded the Milka Bliznakov Joint Fellowship Award for her article that investigated the role of Turkish women architects in the cultural development of modernity during the early Republic period. Erkarslan played an active role in the preparation of the project titled 2017: Cities in transition: locality identity and experience of place: issues for migrant and minority ethnic groups in rapidly emerging urban developments and typologies together. This project formed the first step of the book and was funded by the Newton Fund in 2017 and she remained actively involved until its realization. Since 2021 she has also been publishing on United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and teaching at the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Istanbul Aydin University in addition to numerous book chapters and articles on gender and space.