MERVE BEDİR I Curriculum Vitae mb@landandcc.com www.landandcc.com +31621285564 I +905353977711
Education 1999-2003
Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture Bachelors of Architecture
2008-
Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture PhD candidate
Current Practice 2008-
PhD candidate, Delft University of Technology
2012-
Partner, Land+Civilization Compositions
2015-
External examiner, Piet Zwart Institute: MIARD
2015.07-2016.01
Dean, Aformal Academy: ReLearning the City: Pearl River Delta
Prior Professional Appointments 2012-2013
Curator, Netherlands Architecture Institute
2013
Tutor, the Hague Art Academy
2014
Tutor, Columbia GSAPP
2008-2010
Researcher and project coordinator for TUDelft GGS project, EU 6th framework program
2005-2006
Architect, Esenboğa Airport Project Ercan Çoban Architects and TAV, Ankara
2004-2005
Architect, Atlantis Hotel Project Atelier T and Limak, Antalya
Exhibitions I Festivals I Biennials upcoming
Participant, exhibition “Revolution” at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI)
2015
Curator, exhibition “Vocabulary of Hospitality” at Studio X Istanbul
2015
Curator, “Un-common River” at One Architecture Week, Plovdiv
2015
Participant, “Urban Fabric” at Zig Zag City Festival, Rotterdam
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2014
Participant, exhibition “Urban Futures” at Cape Town City Hall
2014
Participant, exhibition “New Economies” at Berlin Architecture Center (DAZ)
2014
Participant, “Agoraphobia”, Lisbon Architecture Film Festival
2014
Participant, “Agoraphobia” Istanbul Urban Films Festival
2014
Participant, “Agoraphobia” Sweden Architecture Film Festival
2013
Participant, “Urban Border” at Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture, Shenzhen and Hong Kong
2013
Producer, “Agoraphobia: A Documentary film on Urban Transformation in Turkey” Netherlands Architecture Institute, Land+Civilization Compositions, Kibrit Film
Design Work 2015
Sokolniki Park Competition, Moscow (team: Taller 301, LOLA)
2014
Density Syndicate: Lotus Park, Cape Town (in implementation) collaboration with International New Town Institute and African Center for Cities
2013
Central Mosque of Prishtina Competition (team: Taller 301)
2013
Denge: Çerkeş, An Agricultural Retreat Competition for Healthcare Center for LÖSEV (team: Deniz Ökten)
2012
Competition Arquine: Unfinished Archipelago Border design between Tijuana and San Diego (team: Marcelo Sanchez)
2011
Dreieckplatz, Viena, Europan Competition (in implementation) (team: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Andreas Karavanas)
Awards 2015 2011 2010
Third Prize (shared with Turenscape), Sokolniki Park Competition, Moscow (with Taller 301 and LOLA) First Prize, Dreieckplatz, Viena, Europan (team: Artur Borejszo, Leena Cho, Andreas Karavanas) 2nd prize, Place of the Bed in A Room, George Perec Mekanar Architecture Competition on Philosophy and Space (with Deniz Ökten and Zeynep Oğuz)
Written I Editorial Work Upcoming
Econcomy & Vacancy, in Hungarian Architecture Center’s “Urban Economies” Book: Vocabulary of Hospitality (to be published by Dpr-Barcelona) Istanbul’s (Spatial) Vocabulary of Hospitality, in Maxxi’s “Istanbul, Passion, Fury, Joy”
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2015
Home in a World of Non-possession, in MONU: Transnational Urbanism Rjecnik, Gostoprimstva: Na Tragu Zakona, in Zivot: 96 Louvre-Lens: Zamanın Mekanı? in Istanbul Art News Learning from West Bank: Interview with Isshaq al-Barbary, in uncube magazine Slow Down, on 100.Yıl Ankara Neighbourhood and METU Road, in Cairobserver Density Syndicate & Lotus Park, in “Urban Africa”, Internatonal New Town Institute
2014
Vocabulary of Hospitality, in Volume 40: Architecture of Peace- Reloaded The Camp as the City, in Volume 40: Architecture of Peace- Reloaded Fund Me! I'll Hug You! Abramovic used crowdfunding to raise $660k, in uncube Transformation of Cape Town’s Informal Settlements: The Pressure Cooker on the Boil, in Quaderns, the Journal of the Association of Architects of Catalonia Betonart 43: Transitionary, editor with Selva Gürdoğan What is it that we were worried about, Interartive-6, with Ayça İnce Modernity vs. Modernism in Istanbul: the Culture of Rupture and the State of Exception, in Docomomo 2014, with Pieter Brosens
2013
Double Edge Conditions: 5th UABB review, uncube magazine City of Resistance: Istanbul’s Gezi Park and its brief life as a commune, uncube What is happening in Istanbul, Failed Architecture (FA) Neighbourhood forums as mediums of direct democracy in Istanbul, FA
Active Voluntary Work Mutfak: Mutbbakh in Gaziantep: A Kitchen and Garden for All
Lectures I Workshops I Teaching 2015
Urban Africa Conference in HNI, “Density Syndicate in Lotus Park, Cape Town” Mimar Sinan University, “From Vocabulary of Hospitality to After Belonging” Bilgi University (Guest Critique), “Production of Space and Urban Condition” Winter School at METU, “The Camp as City, The City as Camp”, (with Duygu Cihanger, Güven Arif Sargın) Chamber of Architects, Istanbul “Practice of Land+Civilization Compositions” Lecture at Summer School
2014
Lusofna University, “Filming as Architectural Criticism” (lecture and workshop) Columbia GSAPP, “Echoing Borders: Shelter, Camp, City, State” Summer School (with Nina Kolowratnik, Nora Akawi)
2013
The Hague Art Academy, “Inside Istanbul” Winter School (with Hans Venhuizen) Cairo University, “Agoraphobia: Urban transformation in Turkey” (lecture) HK University in Shaghai, “Agoraphobia: Urban transformation in Turkey” (lecture) Macau University, SAB Studio X Beijing, SAB École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, SAB Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture Shenzhen and Hong Kong, “Filming as Architectural Criticism” (lecture and workshop)
2012
Kadir Has University, “Exploring the Commons” (lecture) Netherlands Architecture Institute, “Voids of the City, Re-using Existing Buildings in Istanbul”, (workshop) Netherlands Architecture Institute, “Debates on Tour, Urban Transformation in Turkey”, (workshop)
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2011
SPREAD, Sustainable Lifestyles, EU Project, “How are we consuming?” (lecture and workshop)
2010
LIVING LAB, EU Project, Faculty of Industrial Engineering, TUDelft, “How are we producing?” (lecture and workshop)
2007
Politecnico di Torino, Department of Architecture, “How are we living?” (lecture and workshop)
Language Skills Turkish: fluent English: proficient Dutch: intermediate
Complete Portfolio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7opglR2E-eiWTVmWVJNNl9pSDQ/view?usp=sharing
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