Urban Green-Blue Infrastructures to Create Sponge Cities
Seminar by Ahmet Cemil Tepe
October 21, 2024 10:30 AM
Zoom
Meeting ID: 914 8493 8451
Passcode: 308090
Biography: Dr. Tepe has 18 years of public and corporate experience in landscape planning and design. He is working as an administrative and technical manager in Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Parks, Gardens and Green Areas Department. He is responsible for the Istanbul green space management strategy document YAYSIS project, which is about Istanbul’s green space vision for 2050. He also manages the OYUNİSTANUL brand, which focuses on tactical urbanism studies and gamification of the city in Istanbul within the scope of the Istanbul game master plan. He is the chairman of the commission of national and international support funds carrying out various EU projects within the scope of ecologically based restoration, circular economy, clean green energy, tactical urbanism studies. In addition to all these, he conducts research on support and volunteerism in the management of green spaces to increase participation. Tepe has academic studies on Blue Green infrastructure systems, Green space management systems, quality of life and user satisfaction and holds a PhD degree in Urban landscape planning.
Landscape Research Laboratory and Arch 451 course organized 3 new events. Detailed information about the events is shared below.
Ecosystem approach in urban planning and design
Seminar by Bilge Aydın
Oct 2, 2024 10:50 AM
Zoom link: https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/99323894505?pwd=fKoDFH1EVea39EvrOb4xmHHqkFXTi1.1
Meeting ID: 993 2389 4505
Passcode: 104829
Biography: Bilge Aydın is a PhD candidate at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) Urban and Regional Planning Program. In 2010, she completed her master’s degree in Landscape Architecture at Istanbul University in 2007 and her master’s degree in Urban Design at ITU. Her master’s thesis focused on ecological urban design and planning principles. Within the scope of her PhD studies, she developed an innovative resilience assessment method based on network theory for rural regional downsizing and development. During this period, she was a visiting researcher at Hafencity University of Hamburg for two years. She also participated in TÜBİTAK-1001 projects on ecological resilience planning, spatial data analysis, rural identity analysis and participatory planning at ITU. She has received national and international awards in the fields of urban design and landscape architecture. Currently, she has worked on data analysis and visualization and taught “Disaster Resilient Urban and Architectural Design” course at Isik University
Staring into the Void: a human geographer’s perspective on extractive landscapes
Oct 9, 2024 10:50 AM
Zoom link: https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/96592755192?pwd=SZ9sx5eYJ6wK4gbUNwxN33ILOhBnaG.1
Meeting ID: 965 9275 5192
Passcode: 285740
Biography: Amelia Hine is a critical resource geographer with the Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity, under the Alfred-Wegener-Institut and University of Oldenburg, Germany. Her research investigates the interplay of power and storytelling in resource and energy futures, with a focus on nonhuman and nonliving agencies and materialities, volumetric geographies, and particulate and chemical knowability. Her current project interrogates how the principle of the common heritage of mankind is practiced in relation to the seabed in international waters.
Murmurs from the Underworld: Geologic Urbanisms and Futures
Seminar by Shaun Rosier
Oct 16, 2024 10:50 AM
Zoom link: https://ozyegin-edu-tr.zoom.us/j/96808650132?pwd=VO7aeti7RNrdsyhFHvmTa6LujyMe8y.1
Passcode: 104829
Biography: Shaun Rosier is a landscape architectural designer-researcher and educator at Virginia Tech’s School of Design. He previously taught at and received his practice-based PhD in Landscape Architecture from Victoria University of Wellington (2021), where he focused on documenting design techniques that made aesthetic encounters with the sublime concrete and designable. His current research grapples with developing and documenting approaches to landscape design that are strongly suited to giving expression to landscape encounters, and experience of the material of landscape.
Exploring Opportunities in UAV and Spatial Data Production
Seminar by Hüseyin Yurtseven
G25
Nov 8, 2023
Biography: Assoc. Dr. Hüseyin Yurtseven is a faculty member at Istanbul University- Cerrahpaşa, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Surveying and Cadastre. His areas of expertise encompass high-resolution satellite data and image analysis, digital terrain modeling, geographical information systems, and the application of UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) in various fields, particularly in mapping and related applications. Assoc. Dr. Hüseyin Yurtseven has an impressive academic and professional background, with more than 45 publications in both national and international journals and contributed a chapter to an international book. His research and expertise have extended to his participation in 14 national and international projects. Furthermore, he holds the position of editor-in-chief at the internationally indexed FORESTIST Journal. In addition to his academic work, since 2020, he has been actively engaged as a Commercial Pilot Training Instructor for UAV Unmanned Aerial Vehicle TR SHGM Class 0 and Class 1 at Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa’s Continuing Education Center.
Ekolojik Restorasyon
Seminar by Ender Makinacı
April 19, 2023
Zoom
Meeting ID: 993 0110 8755
Password: 173418
Biography: Dr. Ender Makinacı is an experienced professor in the Ecology Department of Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa, Faculty of Forestry. His research areas include Environmental Ecology, Soil Sciences (such as Soil Physics, focusing on moisture and hydromechanics, gas content, and thermal phenomena), Soil Chemistry (both inorganic and organic), Soil Biology, Soil and Water Storage and Management, Soil Improvement (Physical, Chemical, or Biological), Nutrient Principles, Complete Fertilizers, Methods of Application, Knowledge of Growing Environments, Ecosystem Information, and Plant Nutrition. Dr. Ender Makinacı has conducted both national and international scientific projects