I oA Sliver Lecture: Neyran Turan

I oA Sliver Lecture Series 2021/22 “Research Cultures“

Lecture by Neyran Turan

Neyran Turan is an architect and a founding partner at NEMESTUDIO. She is currently an associate professor at the Department of Architecture at the University of California-Berkeley. Her work focuses on alternative forms of environmental imagination within architecture and their capacity for new aesthetic and political trajectories within architecture and urbanism. She holds a Doctor of Design from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD), a Master of Environmental Design from Yale University School of Architecture, and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University.
Neyran is founding chief-editor of the Harvard GSD journal New Geographies, which focuses on contemporary issues of urbanism and architecture, and is the editor-in-chief of the first two volumes of the journal: New Geographies 0 and New Geographies: After Zero. Her recently published book Architecture as Measure (ACTAR Publishers, 2020) has been awarded by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. Turan has been the curator of the Pavilion of Turkey in the 2021 Venice Biennale 17th International Architecture Exhibition.

I oA Sliver Lecture Series 2021/22 “Research Cultures“

What are we talking about when we refer to research in architecture? What is the relationship between design and research? How is research situated and what is its role within professional practice, academic institution, or a design project itself? Is research a prelude to design, and is design only an illustration of research? What are the ways, means, and tactics of performing research through the medium of design?1 Moreover, what do we mean when we talk about design research and research by design, and how do these notions relate to disciplinary knowledge production? We aim to discuss these questions by presenting a range of disparate positions in the upcoming Sliver Lecture Series titled: Research Cultures.