Segah Sak, Ph.D.
Instructor
Contact
Office: FA211
Tel: 2255
E-mail: segah [at] bilkent.edu.tr
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Pages
https://www.segahsak.com
Instagram: @nixpuella
Dr. Segah Sak received her Ph.D. in Art, Design and Architecture from Bilkent University in 2013. She conducted her post-doctoral research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick (UK) through the international post-doctoral scholarship from TUBİTAK. Her interdisciplinary research lies in the intersection of urban studies, memory studies, environmental psychology, and digital humanities. In addition to book sections, she has published articles in Habitat International, Journal of Urban History and Space and Culture. Both as a researcher and educator, she explores and questions the ways in which people relate to their environment. After teaching and coordinating Architecture and Society and Basic Design for years, Dr. Sak currently teaches and coordinates the second-year Architectural Design Studio, university-wide core elective How Houses Build People, and electives such as Urban Metabolism.
Publications (Selected)
Sak, S. & Yavuzyiğit, B. B. (2023). “Striving for Wellbeing Digitally in the City amidst the Pandemic: Solidarity through Twitter in Ankara”. Habitat International. 137:102846. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.habitatint.2023.102846.
Sak, S. (2022). “Krizlerden Öteye, Kentte Yürümek” [Walking in the City Beyond Crises]. Praksis, 60: 59-70.
Sak, S. & Şenyapılı, B. (2019). “Evading time and place in Ankara: A reading of contemporary urban collective memory through recent transformations”. Space and Culture. 22(4):341-356. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1206331218764334.
Sak, S. (2016). “Socio-Spatial Approaches for Media and Communication Research”. In, S. Kubitschko and A. Kaun, eds., Innovative Methods in Media and Communication Research. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Sak, S. (2014). “Encoding through Digital Memory and Our Remembrances”. In, D. Moser and S. Dun, eds., A Digital Janus: Looking forward, looking back. Leiden: Brill.
Sak, S. & Basa, İ. (2012). “The Role of the Train Station in the Image Formation of the Early Republican Ankara”. Journal of Urban History. 38(4): 777-802. DOI: 10.1177/0096144211430153.
Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)
TÜBİTAK grant for International Publication, 2012, 2016, 2023.
Nomination by faculty for Bilkent Distinguished Teaching Awards, 2021.
Dean’s Research Fund, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Bilkent University, 2021.
TÜBİTAK International Postdoctoral Research Scholarship, Sep.2014-June 2015.
Exhibitions and Lectures (Selected)
“Drafts of Sanity” – A series of mixed media works exhibited at the FADA Staff Exhibition, Çankaya Contemporary Arts Center, Ankara, May 2023.
Talk in Panel, “Women in Academia” organized by the Bilkent University Sustainable Development Goals Student Hub, Ankara, Dec. 2022.
“Bir Zamanlar Varlardı” (Once They Existed), Curator and member of the Exhibition Organization Committee, Çankaya Contemporary Arts Center, Ankara, January 2022.
Advisorship & jury membership, Workshop & Competition, “Human Rights Cities”, organized by Raoul Wallenberg Institute, Bilkent University, Çankaya Municipality and the Chamber of Architects, 2021.
“Shapes and Shapers: Contemporary Czech Design”, Coordinator of the exhibition spatial design team, (Curator: Tereza Porybna), CerModern Contemporary Arts Center, Ankara, Turkey, 28 Sept.-30 Oct. 2019.
