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Architect, artist and researcher based between Istanbul and Berlin. Aladağ holds a Master of Science in European Urban Studies from the Bauhaus University of Weimar as a DAAD scholar and a Bachelor of Architecture from Istanbul Technical University. Her practice explores narratives in various forms on the crossings of different disciplines from architectural and artistic fields to social and natural sciences.

She worked as a project coordinator, designer and architect for the projects of various studios and cultural institutions specializing in the fields of urban history, urban landscapes and civic architecture between 2015 and 2018. She was one of the eight co-founders of the Plankton Project, an urban collective that brought together designers who hold the belief that small-scale endeavours can achieve wide-reaching impact. She initiated The Garden of (not) Forgetting artistic research project in 2017 with Eda Aslan (M.A). The project received several grants from different institutions and was presented in different mediums from publication to the exhibition in Turkey and Germany. In addition to these experiences, as an art director and designer, she has been involved in the production of the various films which premiered in outstanding film festivals such as Berlinale and the New York Film Festival. 
 
She pursues her artistic and research practice with interests in the concepts of the landscape, Anthropocene and memory. Her current works are specifically focusing on the possibility of resilience and maintenance that the cultural and artistic practices can create in the face of emerging social and environmental issues in Turkey.

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Contact:

m.dilsadaladag[at]gmail.com

 

 

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