News & Events

Book Launch & Opening
The new reading corner composed by the two great solid models of METU MUD was opened with the book launch of ‘Conflict, Planning and Design‘ on April 7, 2018. The models presented in the corner are that of Ulus, the traditional core of Ankara, and Surici, the historic center of Diyarbakir. While the first model has been made by Ebru Şevik Read More ...

The New Book: CONFLICT, PLANNING and DESIGN
The new book from the METU MUD series has been published: ÇATIŞMA, PLANLAMA ve TASARIM | CONFLICT, PLANNING and DESIGN. The book edited by Dr. Olgu Çalışkan discusses the issue of urban warfare from the perspective of spatial planning and design. As all know, South Eastern Turkey was exposed to a very intensive, longstanding and destructive condition of military conflict Read More ...

METU MUD Presents: ‘Döşemealtı Design Guideline’
Trip to Döşemealtı, Antalya METU Master of Urban Design (MUD) 2017-2018 Studio made the second field trip to Döşemealtı, Antalya to present the ‘DÖŞEMEALTI DESIGN GUIDELINE’ to the municipality. Within the three-day intensive program, the studio group first visited, Turgay Genç, the mayor of Döşemealtı and submitted the guideline. Then the group presented the guideline publicly in the city council with the Read More ...

FINAL JURY_2018.Fall
The final jury of the ‘Peripherial Urbanism’ Studio of METU MUD was held with the contribution o the visiting jury members, Burak Öztürk (the senior planner of Döşemealtı Municipality), Assist. Prof. Dr. Nedim Kemer and M. Nazim Ozer (Ministry of Environment and Urbanism) on January 5, 2018. Under the theme of the studio course, seven group projects in the form Read More ...

METUDSYMP2016 Proceeding Book
METUDSYMP2016 has ended up with the publication of the proceeding book edited by Olgu Çalışkan and Eren Efeoğlu. The book contains the papers in the form of extended abstracts presented in METU International Symposium on Urban Design in October 4-6, 2016. With thirty-five papers involved, the book suggests a holistic perspective to the contemporary urban design practice, education and research as initially Read More ...

Urban Design Talks #03
At the third meeting of METU MUD ‘Urban Design Talks’ series, Dr. Banu Aksel Gürün shared her professional experience with us on November 24th, 2017 (12.00 pm) at Kubbealtı Hall, METU Faculty of Architecture. (talk will be held in Turkish).

Urban Design Talks #02
At the second session of the ‘Urban Design Talks’ series, METU MUD hosts Oktan Nalbantoğlu (ON Tasarım) on October 27th, 2017 (12.00 pm) at METU Faculty of Architecture. (talk will be held in Turkish). In his lecture, O. Nalbantoglu presented a series of public space design projects made by his offise at ‘Urban Design Talks’. Read More ...

Field Trip to Döşemealtı, Antalya
Field Trip to Döşemealtı, Antalya METU Master of Urban Design (MUD) 2017-2018 Studio made the field trip for the design research project, ‘Peripherial Urbanism’ in Döşemealtı, Antalya. Within the four-day program, the studio group visited different types of settlements in the peri-urban territory and conducted a design workshop with the coordination of the planning department of the municipality. Finally, the Read More ...

FIELD TRIP to UKRAINE 2017
After an intensive period of design research at the studio, METU MUD 2016-17, visited Kiev and Lviv in Ukraine in 4-13 July 2017. Within the field trip sponsored by MESA Holding, the studio group had an opportunity to experience the very particular urban condition of Ukraine which is in a rapid spatial transformation under capitalist restructuring. In addition to the Read More ...

EXHIBITION: MUD Studio 2016-17 ‘Recovery Urbanism’
At the end of the term for collective design researches on post-conflict cities and the strategies to regenerate war-torn urban fabrics, the design projects of the METU MUD Studio have been exhibited at METU Faculty of Architecture. In total, eleven group projects are presented along with the exhibition of 1/1000 scale-solid model of Suriçi, Diyarbakir, the collection of photographs taken Read More ...

PANEL: Destruction, Planning and Design
At the end of the design research studies conducted at the studio under the title of ‘Recovery Urbanism: Regenerating the War-Torn Urban Fabric / Diyarbakir, Suriçi’, METU MUD has organized a panel discussion on ‘YIKIM, PLANLAMA, TASARIM’ (DESTRUCTION, PLANNING, DESIGN). With the participation of the academics researching on the issue of war and the city, and the practitioners who had Read More ...

FINAL JURY_Group projects, Spring 2017: Suriçi, Diyarbakır
With the participation of Kadri Atabas, Bulent Batuman (Bilkent Unv.), Seçil Binboga (Michigan Unv,), Muhammed Adem (Mardin Municipality), Yigit Acar and Neris Parlak, the final jury of the group projects of Diyarbakir, Suriçi Studio was hold at METU MUD Studio. Five projects put their design perspective on possible socio-spatial transformation scenarios of the city: THE SEED Enriching the Life Read More ...

Urban Design Talks #01
METU MUD organizes a series of talks with the young generation of designers to grasp the current state of art in urban design in Turkey. To that aim, Dr. Zeynep Eraydın (PROMIM) presents her works in office on April 7, 2017 (12.30 pm) at METU Faculty of Architecture.

Excursion to Suriçi, Diyarbakır
METU MUD organized a study trip to Surici, Diyabakir on March 10-12, 2017. Re-visiting the site after the first-semester design studies, the group had a chance to discover the potentialities of the city in the way of recovering the tissue after the military conflict occurred. By visiting the different local professional institutions (the local directorate of the Ministry of Environment Read More ...

FINAL JURY_2017.Fall
The final jury of the ‘Recovery Urbanism’ Studio of METU MUD was held with the contribution o the visiting jury members. Prof. Dr. Baykan Gunay (TEDU), Prof. Dr. Namik Erkal (TEDU), Necati Uyar (Ege Plan), M. Nazim Ozer (Ministry of Environment and Urbanism) and Banu Aksel Gurun (BC Kentsel Tasarım ve Mimarlık) on January 16, 2017. Under the theme of the Read More ...

FUTURE ANKARA
GELECEK I FUTURE ANKARA Following the studio course conducted under the title of ‘Futurist Urbanism’ in 2015-2016 Academic Term, METU MUD Program organized an exhibition titled ‘FUTURE ANKARA’ with the institutional corporation of GOETHE Institut – Ankara in January 2017. With reference to the main title, the exhibition consisted of five thematic works presented in English, Turkish and German in Read More ...

METUDSYMP2016
At the 20th anniversary of its Urban Design Graduate Program, METU Faculty of Architecture organised an international symposium on urban design on 4-6 October 2016 in Ankara, Turkey. Covering the seven domains of the field, ideology, sociology, bio-ecology, morphology, methodology, pedagogy and praxis under the major title, ‘Designing Urban Design: Towards a Holistic Perspective’, the symposium aimed to provide an Read More ...