In Izmir Cultural Workshop which is realized under the leadership of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality on 24th October 2009, with the attendance of Izmir people and scientists, artsists and intellectuals, a new vision of improvement is determined. The vision has three bases. First one is Izmir to be a city of innovation and design to provide progress in the future; the second one is Izmir to be open to abroad and to improve the vision through relationships with big cities of Mediterranean. Third one is to provide the vision in democratic and participatice practices. Izmir Metropolitan Municipality has formed Mediterranean Academy as a department which will support the vision determined in Cultural workshop and realize the “Izmir, Mediterranean’s city of culture, art and design.
IZMIR MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY MANIFEST
In today’s world, the economies compete with one another through big cities. For that reason, management of big cities not only give service to their citizens, but also undertake leading role of their cities in competing in the field of economy. Thus, the variety of function has been reflected to the local government law of Turkiye.
Prof. Dr. Halil INALCIK
Bilkent University Academic Member
Historian
Mediterranean Academy Founding Honorary President and Science Board Member
www.inalcik.com
İnalcık was born in Istanbul in 1917 and he is one of the prominent names of the Turkish historiography. He graduated from Ankara University Language, History and Geography Faculty in 1940. He started working as an assistant in the department of Contemporary History of the same faculty and he completed his doctorate with the thesis titled “Reforms and Bulgarian Problem” in two years.
He became a professor in 1952 and İNALCIK lectured in Language, History and Geography Faculty and Faculty of Political Sciences between 1956 and 1972. When he retired in 1972, he was invited to Chicago University. He lectured as a professor in the History Department of the University for 11 years between 1972 and 1983.
He was chosen as member of Turkish, Serbian, American, English and Albanian Academies. He received many awards including Repuclic of Turkey Ministry of Foreign Affairs Distinguished Service Medal, Presidency Culture and Art Grand Award, Ministry of Culture Art and Culture Grand Award and also Grand National Assembly of Turkey Grand Award. He has been working at Bilkent University since 1993.
MAJOR WORKS
Reforms and Bulgaria Affairs, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1943
Hijri 835 dated Suret-i Defter-i Sancak-ı Arvanid, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1954
Investigations and Documentaries in Fatih Era, Ankara : Turkish Historical Society, 1954
Hijri 835 dated Suret-i Defter-i Sancak-ı Arvanid, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1954
The Ottoman Empire: the Classical Age, 1300-1600, London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1973.
Gazavât-ı Sultân Murâd b. Mehemmed Hân İzladi and Battle of Varna (1443-1444) Anonym Gazavâtnâme, Ankara: Turkish Historical Society, 1978
Tursun Beg, The History of Mehmed the Conqueror, Chicago-Minnesota: American Research Institute, 1978 (R. Murphey ile birlikte).
The Ottoman Empire: Conquest, Organization and Economy, London: Variorum Reprints, 1978.
Social and Economical History of Turkiye (1071-1920), Ankara: Meteksan, 1980 (editor with O. Okyar).
Studies in Ottoman Social and Economic History, London: Variorum Reprints, 1985.
Archieve Studies and Examination in Ottoman Empire Society and Economy. Istanbul: Eren, 1993.
The Middle East and the Balkans under the Ottoman Empire, Bloomington: Indiana University Turkish Studies and Turkish Ministry of Culture Joint Series Volume 9, 1993.
The History of the Black Sea Trade: the Register of Customs of Caffa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Suleyman the Second and his Time, Istanbul: Isis Press, 1994 (editor with C. Kafadar).
An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994 (Halil İNALCIK has written between1300-1600 and editor with D. Quataert).
From Empire to Republic: Essays on Ottoman and Turkish Social History, Istanbul: Eren, 1995.
Essays in Ottoman History, Istanbul: Eren, 1998.
Ottoman, 12 books, Istanbul: Yeni Turkiye Press, 1999 (editor with N. Goyunc, E. İhsanoglu, Y. Halacoglu).
Government, Justice and Law in Ottoman Istanbul: Eren, 2000.
Poet and Boss, A Research on Patrimonial Government and Art Sâir ve Patron, Ankara: Dogu Batı Press, 2003.
Ottoman Civilization, 2 books, Istanbul: Ministry of Culture, 2004 (editor, with Gunsel Renda)
Articles on East&West I, Ankara: Dogu Batı Press, 2005.
Reforms/Ottoman Empire in Peiod of change, Ankara: Phoenix Press, 2006 (editor, with M. Seyitdanlıoglu).
Turkey and Europe in History, Istanbul: Eren, 2006.
Ataturk and Democratic Turkiye, Istanbul: Kırmızı Press, 2007.
Ottoman Sultans in Foundation Era, Istanbul: İsam Press, 2010.
Ottomans, Istanbul: Timas Press, 2010.
Ottoman Government in Foundation and Empire Period, Law Diplomacy, Istanbul: Timas Yayınları, 2011.
Has-bagcede ‘ays u tarab Nedîm, Sâir, Mutrib, Istanbul: İs Bankası Cultural Press, 2011.
Period of Identification with Reneissance Europe and Turkiye Civilization, Istanbul: İs Bankası Cultural Press, 2011.
Studies in the History of Textiles in Turkey, İs Bankası Kultur Yayınları, 2011.
The Survey of Istanbul, Istanbul: İs Bankası Kultur Yayınlar, 2012.
HIS PROJECTS AND THE SCIENCE INSTITUTIONS HE FOUNDED
1. When Halil İNALCIK started working on kadi registries in 1950’s, he appealed to Museums General Directorate in Ankara for the registries which were found in dust and dirt and in a pile thrown away in a cell in Green Madrasa by Sultan I. Mehmed (1413-1421), to be put in order. This archive goes up to Fatih era and it is the oldest Ottoman Archive. These registries have unique value. General Director accepted his proposal of forming an organized archive from these registries. The registries were sent to Istanbul. They were bound and put in order. They were set in good order in a special archive in Bursa Archeology museum. And they have been put into service of researchers.
2. After the II. World War, in parallel with development of social and economic history researches in the world, İNALCIK founded International Association for Social and Economic History of Turkey which he thought it as a platform where Ottoman History would be researched on the base of these Dynamics, where the results would be presented to science world, and where historians, who are interested in the subject, would come in a regular basis.
and he, as the head of this union, presided 10 international congresses called International Congress on the Social and Economic History of Turkey. Dates and places of these congresses are:
Hacettepe Universitesi, Ankara (1977)
Strasbourg Universitesi, Strasbourg (1980)
Princeton Universitesi, Princeton (1983)
Munih (1986)
Istanbul (1989)
Aix-en-Provence (1992)
Heidelberg (1995)
Bursa (1998)
Dubrovnik (2001)
Venedik (2005 )
Viyana (2010)
3. The other Project INALCIK undertook is The History of the Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind which was published by UNESCO. This work was planned as seven volumes. He, together with Prof. Peter Burke from Cambridge University, was assigned as the head editor of the fifth volume which comprises the years of 1500-1800 of this work. The book was Published in 1999. (History of Humanity-Scientific and Cultural Development: From the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century, London: Routledge, 1906).
4. Halil İNALCIK
Research Project / Istanbul History according to Ecclesiastical Registries: He started a new Project on evaluating city archive which contains about ten thousand books from Istanbul Ecclesiastical Court registries collections for Istanbul History in 1980’s. (This archive was placed in a special building of Office of Mufti of Istanbul. This archive was organized as a result of increasing interest in Islamic sciences and Islamic Law in II. Abdulhamid (1876-1905) era. It was attached to Shayk al-islam. This archive is primarily important not only for Istanbul History but also for general Ottoman city, craftsmen, trade, and law history.) Prof. İNALCIK came together with Prof. A. Kuran, Prof. Z. Toprak for this purpose. He sought ways to establish an institute or a foundation. Committee became larger when Prof. N. Atasoy joined into it. Establishing a foundation or an institute was planned. Because of the difficulties in obtaining financial sources, realizing the Project delayed a while. In the end, it was decided with the attempt of Prof. Atasoy that the Project would be started as a Project attached to Istanbul University Literature Faculty Art history center. The Project has been maintained with Sabancı University – Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) partnership since 1999. the first book of the Project was published with the title Istanbul Court Ecclesiastical Registry no:121 (prepared by S.N.Aykut, Istanbul, 2006)
5. Halil İnalcık founded Center for Ottoman Studies in Bilkent University in 2003. Halil İNALCIK donated copies of documents and books which he collected from different archives for years, research texts which were not completed, more than 1000 offprints and other materials to this center. It will be put into use of researchers in the center where classification Works have been carried out in the near future. Yalova Municipality Halil İNALCIK Research Institute
THE WORKS WHICH HE FOUNDED AND EDITED
Archivum Ottomanicum (The Hague, 1969, founder with T. Halasi-Kun)
Ottoman Research Journal (Istanbul, 1980, with H. Lowry ve N. Goyunc)
History of Scientific and Cultural Development of Mankind, Book: V (History of Humanity- book, with V. P. Burke)
Ottoman Empire and Its Heritage, Editor: with Fraqhui (Leiden: Brill, 45 books have been published since 1998 in these series)
Ottoman Civilization, 2 books (Istanbul: Ministry of Culture, 2001, the work has also been published in English)
SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS WHICH HE ATTENDS THE EDITORIAL BOARD
Turcica (Paris)
Harvard Ukrainian Studies (Cambridge)
East European Quarterly (Boulder, Colorado)
Turk Tarih Kurumu Belgeler Dergisi
(Turkish Historical Society Documents Journal -Ankara)
Studia Islamica (Paris)
Dogu Batı (East West-Ankara)
SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTION MEMBERSHIP
Turkish Historical Society, Founding Member
Association Internationale des Etudes du Sud-Est Européen, Member (1964-1974), President (1971-74)
Turkish Cultural Research Institute, Member (1960)
Srpska Akademija Nauka i Umetnost (Serbia Science and Art Academy), Belgrad, Member (1991)
The Royal Historical Society, London, Corresponding Member (1974)
The Royal Asiatic Society, London, Honorary Member (1978)
L’école des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Visitor Director (1979)
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow (1983)
Turkiye Ataturk Supreme Council for Culture, Language and History, Member (1993)
Turkiye Science Academy, Honorary Member (1993)
Middle East Studies Association, Honorary Member (1994)
American Historical Association, Honorary Member (1995)
Middle East Society of North of America (MESA), Honorary Member
Institutul de Istorie Nicolae Iorga (Nicolae Iorga Tarih Enstitusu), Bucharest, Honorary Member (1995)
The British Academy, Corresponding Member (1995)
Ministry of Culture 700th anniversary of Foundation of Ottoman Empire Editorial Board (1998)
General Directorate for Foundations Research Board, Member (1998)
Institute of Turkish Studies, Washington, Member (Administrative Board, 1998)
Halil İNALCIK Research Project, Sabancı University-in association with Packard Humanities Institute “Istanbul history according to Ser’iyye records (islam religion in court records), Istanbul History”, Honorary President (1999)
Vehbi Koc awards Selection Committee, Member (2002)
CONFERRED HONORARY PhD
Bosphorus University, Turkiye (1986)
University of Athens, Greece (1987)
Selcuk University, Turkiye (1992)
University of Jerusalem, Syria (1993)
University of Bucharest, Romania (1993)
Uludag University, Turkiye (1995)
University of Balıkesir (1999)
Sofia University, Bulgaria (2001)
Manas University, Kyrgyzstan (2004)
Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Turkiye (2005)
Koc University, Turkiye (2006)
Trakya University, Turkiye (2007)
Mehmet Akif Ersoy University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Suleyman Demirel University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Pamukkale University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2008)
Yalova University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2009)
Mediterranean University Title of Honorary PhD, Turkiye (2009)
Cuhmuriyet University, Sivas (2010)
Erciyes University, Kayseri (2011)
Azerbaijan Academy of Sciences Title of Honorary PhD (2012)
AWARDS, MEDALS, ORDERS
Rockefeller Foundation Research Scholarship, Harvard University (1956)
Research Center for Islamic History, Art and Culture (IRCICA) award, Organization of the Islamic Conference (1986)
T.R. Ministry of Foreign Affairs Medal of Distingusihed Service and Diploma (1991)
Prof. Dr. Mustafa Parlar Education and Research Foundation Award, ODTU (1992)
Sedat Simavi Foundation by Ottoman Empire Society and Economy work (Istanbul: Eren, 1993): best Work Award in Social Sciences, Istanbul (1993)
Titulesco Medal of Distingusihed Service, Romania Embassy, Ankara (1995)
Istanbul University Institute of Turkic Studies Award (1998)
Balıkesir University Appreciation Plaque (1999)
Turkish Cultural Service Foundation
Appreciation Plaque (2000)
Presidency of Hungary Oder of Merit (2002)
T.R. Ministry of Culture Great Arts and Culture Prize (2002)
Writers Union of Turkey, Sukran Beratı (2003)
Ministry of National Defence Plaque (2003)
Uskudar Municipality Plaque (2003)
Ankara University Appreciation Plaque (2003)
Bursa Foundation of Culture Art and Tourism, Award for Bursa National Culture Life (2004)
Turkish Organization of Administrators Award (2008)
Turkish Parliament Honour Award (2008)
Rotary International Career Award (2008)
Crimerian Foundation of Progress Honour Award (2009)
Bursa Honorary Citizenship Award (2010)
King Faysal International Prize(2011)
Turksoy Medal of Honour (2012)
Prof. Dr. İlhan TEKELİ
Middle East Technical University Academic Member
Urban and Regional Planner, Social Scientist
Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Consultant
Mediterranean Academy Founding Honorary President, Science Board and Management Board Member
He was born in Izmir, in 1937. He completed his primary and secondary education in Izmir. He graduated from Istanbul Technical University Constructional Engineering Department.
He got master’s degree in City and Regional Planning at Middle East Technical University in 1964 and at Pennsylvania University in 1966. He did his doctorate in City Planning at Istanbul Technical University in 1968. He lectured at different universities abroad as a guest professor. He was a member of advisory committees in many municipalities and institutions.
He is the founder and member of Executive Committee of World Academy for Local Government and Democracy(WALD). He is the founder-head of Turkey Economic and Social History Foundation. He was a member of General Board of Council of Higher Education between 2004 and 2008.
TEKELİ has more than 50 books, more than 400 articles and conference notifications in different languages. He won many awards in the field of Social Sciences. He has lots of works in the fields of city and regional planning, planning theory, macro geography, migration geography and political behavior, local governments’ theory and history in Turkey, urbanization and urban policy, economic policy, economic history of Turkey, city and society history since 1964.
HIS CHOSEN PUBLISHINGS
İlhan Tekeli, Tarık Okyay: Story of the Dolmus, environment and Architecture Sciences Association, Ankara,1977, p.1-304.
İlhan Tekeli, Leila Erder: Migration as an Adaptation Process of Spatial Organization, Hacettepe university Publishing, Ankara,1978,p.1-388.
İlhan Tekeli, İlber Ortaylı: Evolution of Municipal Administration in Turkey Turk Administrators Association, Ankara,1978 p.1-312.
A Macro Approach to Spatial Organization in Turkey ODTU Architecture Faculty, Ankara, 1979.
İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin: Emergence of Statism in the Stage of Implementation, Turkey Documental Economy History.3, ODTU, Ankara, 1982, p.i-x, 1-356.
Urban Planning Conferences TMMOB Architectures Chamber, Ankara, 1991.
İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin: Turkey and European Community volume.l and II, Umit Publishing, Ankara,1993.
The Development of the Istanbul Metropolitan Area, Urban Administration and Planning, IULA-EMME, Yıldız Technical University, Istanbul, 1994.s., 1-320
Thinking on Historiography, Dost Bookstore, Ankara, 1998,p.1-168.
Consciousness and, Youth, A Comparative Survey in Europe and Turkey, History Foundation Yurt Publishing, 1998, i-xi, 1-258.
HIS BOOKS
Story of the house in life and Literature in Turkey (1923 – 1980), History Foundation Yurt Publishing,
Life stories with the things that he could tell and he couldn’t History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Usak Central Committee when passing from Civil Resistance in Aegean region to War of Independence and İbrahim (TahtaKılıc) Bey, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Turkish History Institution Publishing
NGO’s and participating Democracy writings for Turkey , History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Education Writings for Turkey History Foundation Yurt Publishing
City, City rights, Urbanization and urban Renewal , History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Social System Writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Settlement System and settlement dates in Anatolia, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Politics and democracy writings for Turkey, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Design, Architecture and Architectures, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To think Residence Problem with Residence Presenting Ways, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Daily Life, Life Quality, and Localness Writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Industry writings For Industry Society, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Information Science Writings of the Spatial and the Social, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Urban Transportation History Writings for Istanbul and Ankara, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Modernism, Modernity and Turkey’s City Planning History, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
from wise Planning to Planning as a democracy Project, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Urban Plot, infrastructure and urban services, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To protect Natural and Historical Environment within the context of Culture Politics and Human Rights, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Turkey Financial Development Plan in the Post War Environment in 1947, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Formation of Statism in Turkey When Passing into Practice, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Municipalism Story of the Republic (1923-1990), History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Turkey’s Financial Politics Searches of Turkey in the World Recession of 1929, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Bilge Culture Art
Migration and beyond, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Formation and transformation of Education and Information Producing System in Ottoman Empire, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Turkish History Institution Publishing
Regional Inequality in Turkey and Regional Planning writings, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Towards a History Which is written and learned Together, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 3 when infrastructure of Modernity forms, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 2 Development of Financial Politics of Radical Modernity , İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
Mortar of the Republic Volume: 1 Birth of radical Modernity, İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing
To tell the staff and Staffers the Story of a Republic , İlhan Tekeli, Selim İlkin, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
Politics when Indoctrinating Modernity, İmge Bookstore Publishing
History Conscious and The Youth, History Foundation Yurt Publishing
To Think on Education, Turkey Sciences Academy TUBA
City Planning when Indoctrinating Modernity, İmge Bookstore Publishing
To think on Historiography, Dost Bookstore Publishing
AWARDS
Sedat Simavi Social Science Award (1989)
Mustafa Parlar Science Award (1994)
COORDINATORS

ECOLOGY COORDINATOR (2020-)
Dr. Koray Velibeyoğlu
- İzmir Institute Of Technology
City and Regional Planning

HISTORY COORDINATOR
Prof. Dr. Alp Yücel KAYA
- Ege University Faculty Member
Science Board Member and History Coordinator
Continue
Alp Yücel Kaya graduated from the Middle East Technical University of Ankara with degrees of BSc and MSc in economics. He has obtained his Ph.D. from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris with an as yet unpublished thesis: “Politique de l’enregistrement de la richesse économique: Les enquêtes fiscales et agricoles de l’Empire ottoman et de la France au milieu du XIXe siècle,” (2005). He worked at the Humanities and Social Sciences Department of the Istanbul Technical University between 2006 and 2013. He teaches actually as associate professor at the Economics Department of Ege University of Izmir. His research focuses on the conflictual world of property relations and agrarian transformation in France, the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean from 18th to 21st centuries. He is the author of “Searching for Economic and Administrative Reforms: Enquiry of 1863 in the Ottoman Empire”, Nadine Vivier (ed.), The Golden Age of State Enquiries Rural Enquiries in the Nineteenth Century, From Fact Gathering to Political Instrument, Turnhout, Brespol, 2014; “Şövalyelerden Halk Düşmanlarına İrrasyonel Kahramanlar”, Çınla Akdere ve Derya Güler Aydın (Der.), Edebiyattaki İktisat, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2014 (M. Erdem Özgür ile); “Le Bureau de la statistique générale de la France et l’institutionalisation des statistiques agricoles: l’enquête agricole de 1836”, Oeconomica, History, Methodology, Philosophy, 2013, 3 (3), 421-457; “Les villes ottomanes sous tension fiscale: les enjeux de l’évaluation cadastrale au XIXe siecle”, Florence Bourillon et Nadine Vivier (éds.), La mesure cadastrale, Estimer la valeur du foncier en Europe aux XIXe et XXe siècles, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012; “Genç Marx ve ‘Odun Hırsızlığı Kanunu Tartışmaları’ ”, Sevinç Orhan, Serhat Koloğlugil ve Altuğ Yalçıntaş (derl.), İktisatta Bir Hayalet: Karl Marx, Istanbul, İletişim Yayınları, 2012; “In the Hinterland of Izmir: Mid-nineteenth Century Traders Facing a New Type of Fiscal Practice”, Suraiya Faroqhi and Gilles Veinstein (eds.), Merchants in the Ottoman Empire, Leuven, Peeters, 2008.

CULTURE ART COORDINATOR
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhan ADA
- Bilgi University Faculty Member
International Relations Expert
Mediterranean Academy Culture Art Consultant
Continue
ADA finished Saint-Joseph High School. he completed Ankara University Faculty of Political Sciences International Relations in 1977, he finished his postgraduate education in 1979 and finished his doctorate education in 2004. He became a research assistant in the university between 1979 and 1984. Then he worked in Private Sector as Senior manager and marketing manager (in the fields of trademark, product, design and international distribution)
ADA is , Istanbul Bilgi University Culture Management (bachelor degree and postgraduate) Program and Stage and Performing Arts Management bachelor degree Program Coordinator, design Culture and management and Fashion Management (certificate) Program Director and SantralIstanbul Founder-director.
He is Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Culture Consultant, guest faculty member in Bologna University GIOCA–Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts Master Program, Association of International Art Critics (AICA) TURKEY Branch founder-member, Deputy Chairman of Anatolian Culture Corp., Deputy Head of UNESCO Turkey National Commission Cultural Variety Committee. He worked as City Culture Director and Bigger Projects Coordinator in Istanbul 2010 European Culture Capital Agency between September 2008 and December 2010.
He wrote column the “Thin/Long” in Radical newspaper weekly and trials and critics on different fields of art and culture between 1996 and 2010. ADA wrote in magazines such as History and Society, Notebook. He collected his poems in the book called İlan-ı Siir (Yapı Kredi Publishing, 1995), His doctorate thesis which he completed in 2004 was published with the name “Hatay Problem in Turkish-French Relations” (1918-1939) (Istanbul Bilgi University Publishing, 2005). he got doctorate degree in the field of Image arts in April 2010. Ada knows English, French, Italian and Spanish.

DESIGN COORDINATOR
Öğr. Gör. Dr. Elif KOCABIYIK SAVASTA
- İzmir Ekonomi University
Mediterranean Academy Management Board Member, Science Board Member
Continue
Elif Kocabıyık received her B.E. degree in the field of textile engineering at Ege University in 2000, and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in the field of industrial product design at Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) in 2004 and at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) in 2012. She worked as a research assistant at IZTECH and Izmir University of Economics (IUE) between 2001 and 2005. She was a visiting researcher at Sheffield Hallam University, UK (SHU) in the academic year of 2008-2009. She has been working as a lecturer at the Department of Industrial Design in IUE since 2005. She is a member of 4T-Design and Design History Society. She is the Chairperson of the Industrial Designers’ Society of Turkey (ETMK) Izmir Branch since 2016. She serves as World Design Organization (WDO) Community Liaison for the 2017-2019 term for Turkey.
Her research interests include design history, design culture, design research methods, digital humanities and basic design. She works on everyday objects with a specific interest in packaging from an evolutionary perspective in design. She has conference papers/presentations and articles, has been part of the organization of international conferences and has edited proceedings such as “Agrindustrial Design Conferences” in 2005 and 2012. She has worked in design projects at IZTECH and IUE-EKOTAM (Design and Research Centre). Recently, she worked as one of the coordinators in Izmir’s bid for World Design Capital (WDC) 2020, and coordinated the World Design Talk (WDT), “Co-living Izmir”, in 2018.
EMPLOYEES OF ACADEMY
Mehriban YANIK
- +90 232 293 3845
- mehribanyanik@izmir.bel.tr
Bahar ARAT YAMA
- +90 232 293 4617
- bahararat@izmir.bel.tr
Eriz Arda AYDIN
- +90 232 293 4613
- ardaaydin@izmir.bel.tr
Ertekin AKPINAR
- +90 232 293 4618
- ertekinakpinar@izmir.bel.tr
Hasan Serkan GÖKKAYA
- +90 232 293 4605
- serkangokkaya@izmir.bel.tr
İlayda GÜNEŞ
- +90 232 293 4608
- ilaydagunes@izmir.bel.tr

Melek DEMİR
- +90 232 293 4614
- melekdemir@izmir.bel.tr
Mustafa DEMİRÖZ
- +90 232 293 4615
- mustafademiroz@izmir.bel.tr
Özay GÖZTEPE
- +90 232 293 4617
- ozaygoztepe@izmir.bel.tr

Özgür YURTTAŞ ERDA
- +90 232 293 4609
- ozguryurttas@izmir.bel.tr
Öznur ATASEVER KIZILTAN
- +90 232 293 4606
- oznuratasever@izmir.bel.tr

Selmin ONAR
- +90 232 293 46 06
- selminonar@izmir.bel.tr

Sultan KOŞAR
- +90 232 293 46 12
- sultankosar@izmir.bel.tr