Ipek Tureli

Ipek Tureli is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in History of Art and Architecture at Brown University. Dr. Tureli's research and scholarship focus on architectural urban history, visual culture and comparative urbanism. She received her Ph.D. in Architecture at UC Berkeley in 2008 with a dissertation titled "Istanbul, Open City: Exhibiting Anxieties of Urban Modernity." Prior to her doctoral studies, she obtained her professional degrees in architecture from the Architectural Association in London and Istanbul Technical University, and has experience in architectural practice in Turkey and the UK. She taught architectural design studio courses at Middle East Technical University in Ankara and at Berkeley, and architectural and urban history and theory courses at Berkeley and at Brown. Ipek Tureli is currently working on an edited book, titled Orienting Istanbul: Cultural Capital of Europe?, based on the dialog initiated at a conference with the same title which she co-organized at Berkeley in the fall of 2008. She is also revising her dissertation for publication.

Gokce Kinayoglu

Gokce Kinayoglu received his Ph.D. in Architecture, Design Theories and Methods Program, with Designated Emphasis in New Media at UC Berkeley in 2009. He holds M.Arch (2002) and B.Arch (1999) degrees from METU in Ankara, Turkey. His dissertation, which investigates the potentials of new media for environmental and mobile-embodied interaction beyond the visual, is titled "The Role of Sound in the Making of A Sense of Place in Real, Virtual and Augmented Environments." During his doctoral studies, he contributed to numerous research projects at the Digital Design Research Group and Center for New Media on virtual and interactive environments. These include the Knight Foundation Grant recipient Virtual Oakland: Remembering 7th Street Blues and Jazz, and Virtual Cairo. He received the Mellon Research Grant for Travel, UC Berkeley Academic Progress Award and Summer Grants and UC Berkeley Dean's Normative Time Fellowship. Dr. Kinayoglu currently teaches on architectural computation and media theory at Rhode Island School of Design's Interior Architecture and Digital Media departments.