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About me

Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu is an architect and associate professor in the Faculty of Architecture, Department of Landscape Architecture and Architectural Design Computing Program at ITU. Her recent research interests include the design and application of mediated environments, interactive systems, and artificial intelligence. She is a member of the ‘Technology, Ecology and Design Research Laboratory’ (TETA Lab) at ITU. She is an advisory board member at the ‘Architecture, Media, Politics, Society’ (AMPS)  international, interdisciplinary research organization. She was the former Head of the Department of Architecture at Altınbaş University between 2017-2020. She was the Architectural Design Advisory Board Member at IT Valley Turkey between 2020-2022. Akçay Kavakoğlu graduated from Dokuz Eylül University with a Bachelor of Architecture degree. She has conducted her master studies at Middle East Technical University and Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture de Paris-Belleville. She graduated from METU with her master thesis focused on the representation of city images in cinema. She got her Ph.D. in architecture degree from METU by researching the contribution of moving images to the computational design process. Her work also explores the intersection of architecture, technology, and pedagogy with a focus on computational design, fabric formwork, representation, and moving image studies in general. She executed several workshops and curated exhibitions. Akçay Kavakoğlu has worked on various architectural design projects and has been awarded in national architecture competitions.

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