Urban Talks #03 | Optimism of the Will

Urban Talks

Cem Dedekarginoglu

Cemre Gokpinar

21.01.2023, Saturday 14:00

Urban Talks will take place at Ka x Assembly.

Participation is limited to 60 people. You can use the links on this page for free registration.

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The founders of Urbanwalks.ankara continuing its city walks in cooperation with Ka Atölye, Cem & Cemre, are inviting you to a new event series with great happiness.

“We will discuss the urban space that we have experienced on foot till today, through various historical layers of the city, and its important actors and concepts. With our guests who will join us at every event, we will try to discover the built environment and its contributors together, by keeping you on the edge of our seats.

In our third talk, our guest will be Associate Professor Olgu Çalışkan, faculty member of the Department of City and Regional Planning, Faculty of Architecture, Middle East Technical University. In the centennial of Ankara's becoming the capital, we will discuss the various urban states of the city in theory and practice with him, through the eyes of an urban planner, designer, and academician. While doing this, we will evaluate the urbanization problems and possible solution proposals from a constructive point of view through various examples from the world and Turkey.

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Olgu Çalışkan

Having completed his doctoral degree on urbanism at TU Delft, the Netherlands in 2013, he has been lecturing at METU Faculty of Architecture, Department of City and Regional Planning and coordinating the Master of Urban Design Studio as an associate professor. He has publications in international journals such as Built Environment (2011), Journal of Urban Design (2010, 2022), Journal of Architectural and Planning Research (2011), Urban Design International (2012, 2020) and Urban Morphology (2017). His main research interests are physical planning and design, urban morphology, urban design theory and methodology, and visualisation in urbanism. In the body of TEPAV (The Economic Research Foundation of Turkey), he consulted for the strategic vision project for Gaza Strip which was proposed both to the Israeli and Palestinian authorities in January 2016. He has been a jury member in various national and international urban design competitions since 2014. He has awards from the competitions he participated in with various design teams [Konyaaltı Beach Architectural and Coastal Arrangement Idea Project Competition (2015), and Taksim International Urban Design Competition (2020)