Mert Akay
Research Fellow
Mert Akay is an urban planner and urban designer with seven years of practical and academic experience that touches upon different aspects, mediums, and scales of urban planning and design practice. In addition to the awards received in national and international design competitions, he has been involved in several projects and planning practices at the local and national levels. Currently, he is pursuing to follow academic track as a PhD candidate at the Department of Human-centered Design, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering. His PhD research will focus on exploring new methodologies for digital participation that can encourage active citizen engagement in urban planning and design processes and ultimately maximise civic decision-making in climate-resilient city-making. His research interests cover urban informatics, digital participation, urban morphology, parametric urbanism and climate-resilient city-making.
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