m.dilsadaladag@gmail.com
Researcher and practitioner
on cultural, artistic and curatorial grounds.
She is a doctorate researcher at the Arts and Design
PhD program at the Bauhaus Uni. of Weimar. more
Mahsul Vakaları / Yield Events 2024
exhibition
Natives and Displaced Ones
A Fictive Dialogue on Dunes
RENK / TIMBRE
Mahsul [Yield] Project 2022 - ongoing
online platform
curated gatherings
printed publication
Taklak 2022 - ongoing
research and archive
performance
ALAN at Berlin 2022 - 2023
curated gatherings
Unutma Bahçesi 2017 - 2022
The Garden of (not) Forgetting
research
exhibition in İstanbul
exhibition in Fürth / Nürnberg
film
Nevşunema
a Sequence From a Garden
Many Places on the Trial of a Place 2021
printed publication
article series
Hajde 2021 installation and zine
Narrating the Discordant 2022 thesis
Belonging 2018 - 2019 design
Plankton Project 2015 - 2017
urban collective
Gölge Seferihisar
Durak Ovacık
WORKS as an employee
SALT Winter Garden
Visiting Scolars and Guest Artist Offices
Imaginable Guidelines Istanbul
Salt Reading Room
Summer Homes: Claiming the Coast
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Plankton Project: Durak Ovacık
Architecture, urban design workshop / Dersim Ovacık / with Plantok Project
Architecture, urban design workshop / Dersim Ovacık / with Plantok Project
Durak (stop) Ovacık is a bus station collectively designed and built for the
people of Ovacık region on the Eastern Turkey through a participatory process.
Dersim region was historically militarized and segregated by the goverment
force from the early years of the Republic of Turkey. While the influence of
these invasions still continues in the landscape, Ovacık town was experiencing
series of changes through the new local authority from Communist Party.
In cooperation with the municipality, Plankton Project developed a bus station
prototype for the region. Through collective brainstorming, design discussions
and collective building process, we developed a design that offers a comfortable
and non-commercial bus station which encourage recycled, sustainable and/
or local materials.
The inspirational process motivated us, a group of design students, to initiate
Plankton Project design collective for experiencing more process and practice-based
participatory design projects and knowledge sharing with the local users.
Images from the design and construction process on site
Durak Ovacıkwas selected for the Architecture Annual Turkey 2015 selection.
Selected Reviews on Durak Ovacık:
