Date & Place of Birth: , Sofia, Bulgaria. Marital status: Female, married, two children (above 18)

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1 Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk SUMMARY PERSONAL DATA: Date & Place of Birth: , Sofia, Bulgaria Marital status: Female, married, two children (above 18) Nationality/citizenship: Bulgarian and Turkish (passport holder of both) Academic rank: Associate Professor in Theory, Criticism and Approaches in Architecture (YÖK Doçentlik), September, 2012 Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk is a professional combining both design practice and academic work with diverse cultural background. Obtaining her Bachelor in Architecture at the Institute for Architecture and Construction, Sofia, Bulgaria, she started out in the professional field as architect and urban designer. She has later on translated her interest in social space into academic research on the problematic of urban quality, completing her Masters and PhD at the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey. Her special studies and publications focus on space- body relationships and experience of space/place at base of developing analytical methodologies and interdisciplinary links in discourse, and teaching. Focusing especially on the theatre and analogous collective sites in the context of performance and foregrounding experience and consciousness in the passage between physical circumstance, sense and sensibility, she extends on theory of architectural space. She has extensive teaching/academic practice at both undergraduate and graduate levels. She has worked for more than 24 years at Bilkent University, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, and is currently a faculty member in the Eastern Mediterranean University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture, Famagusta, Cyprus. She is on the editorial boards of ISI journal Space and Culture, and the web- journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts. AREAS OF ACADEMIC INTEREST Architecture and urban space: theory, criticism, and analytical methods theory of space - developing interdisciplinary links: space- body relationships, socio- spatial and cultural practices, experience and consciousness special focus: social space, theatre and performance space, the theatre building type, theatre architecture, design education: theory, teaching approaches, design process, creativity

2 EDUCATION 1999 Ph. D in Architecture; Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey; Dissertation: Conceptualizing Urban Quality Towards a Framework for Analytical Inquiry 1993 M. Arch; Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey; Thesis: Criteria for Evaluating Qualities of Plazas in Cities 1978 B. Architecture; Higher Institute for Architecture and Construction, Faculty of Architecture, Sofia, Bulgaria WORK EXPERIENCE Bilkent University, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental design, Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Ankara, Turkey full time lecturer, studio instructor, academic adviser, and MFA supervisor; Assist.Prof professional practice as architect and urban designer, Galvproject, Sofia, Bulgaria LANGUAGES [All through these periods active also as free- lance consultant and participant in various design competitions, such as the 'Ankara Castle Urban Design' competition (mansion)] Bulgarian, English, German, Turkish, and Russian PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS: International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR), member of working group Theatre Architecture member of working group Consciousness and Performance Member of ACSA, and the European Association of Architectural Education (EAAE) Professional Chamber of Architects; Turkey and Bulgaria AWARDS: Award of support, TUBITAK, 2014, scientific publication Award of support, TUBITAK, 2010, scientific publication Award of support, TUBITAK, 2007, scientific publication

3 RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS ISI journal publications Maya N. Öztürk: Cultivating space: Artifact and agency in theatre before and beyond its scenes Space and Culture, 16:4, November 2013, pp Maya N. Öztürk: An uncanny sit(d)e: On exposure, dark space, and structures of fear in the context of performance Contemporary Theatre Review, 20:3, August 2010, pp Maya N. Öztürk, Elif E. Türkkan: The design studio as a teaching/learning medium a process based approach The International Journal of Art and Design Education, 25.1, 2006, pp BOOK: Maya N. Öztürk: Corporeality: Emergent Consciousness within its spatial dimensions, Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi, 2014 (published). Entails an analytical inquiry into built architectural space in terms of its generative potential with respect to immediate experience; theorizes and explores experiential possibilities embedded in the corporeality of space- to- body correlations; substantiation of theoretical- empirical approach founded on the case of theatre space, as formalized architectural space, as collective site, and as experiential filed the context of performance. OTHER REFEREED PUBLICATIONS: Chapters in books Maya N. Öztürk: Theatre: From Mental Image to Corporeal Constructions of Community in Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2009, Daniel Meyer- Dinkgrafe (Ed), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010, Chapter 7, pp [ISBN (10): , ISBN (13): ; indexed in British Library Cataloging in Publication Data] Maya N. Öztürk: Corporeal thresholds to consciousness: on the effects of exposure and fear in the context of performance in Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts 2007, Daniel Meyer- Dinkgrafe (Ed), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2007, Chapter 11, pp [ISBN (10): , ISBN (13): ; indexed in British Library Cataloging in Publication Data] Maya N. Öztürk: Through the body: Corporeality and consciousness at the performance site in Consciousness, Theatre, Literature and the Arts, Daniel Meyer- Dinkgrafe (Ed), Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006, Chapter 16, pp

4 [ISBN ; indexed in British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data] ARTICLES IN OTHER REFEREED JOURNALS: Maya N. Öztürk: Quality of the Urban Environment: Analytical Perspectives, 1999, Architectura, Sofia, Bulgaria BOOK REVIEWS: Peter J.M. Nas (ed), Cities full of Symbols. A Theory of Urban Space and Culture. Series: AUP - Leiden University Press. Reviewed for Space and Culture, 2 pages, forthcoming Manning, Erin (2009). Relationscapes. Movement, Art Philosophy. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press. Reviewed for Consciousness, Literature and the Arts Journal, Vol 13, No 1, April 2012, 9 pages Ridout, Nicholas. (2006) Stage fright, Animals and Other Theatrical Problems. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press; Reviewed for CLA Journal, vol 10/2, August 2009; 9 pages ACADEMIC POSITIONS OUTSIDE of University: Member of the editorial board of ISI journal Space and Culture Member of the editorial board of the web- journal CLA Journal INVITED LECTURES: Maya N. Öztürk: "Re- thinking the power of space/place through the body: collective sites as sites of emergence" invited lecture, presented on in the International Lecture Series: Space - Society Economy, single speaker at the lecture series Power of Place, organized by the Katholische Universitat, Eichstatt/Ingoldstadt, Germany. Maya N. Öztürk: Performative Paradigms in Design education: Theatre as a model for thinking through architectural space

5 invited key- note speaker for the WIRE - Winter School International Research and Education, GAZI University, Ankara, Turkey, January 2014 CHAIRING and PRESENTATIONS at CONGRESSES AND CONFERENCES Participation as both reviewer and session chair, in the VII International Cultural Studies Conference Memory and Culture held September 5-7, 2013, at Bilkent University Maya N. Öztürk: Theatre: A mode of Spatial Organization, presented at the 2010 IFTR Congress, Held July, Munich, Germany, WG on Theatre Architecture Maya N. Öztürk: Proposed and chaired the session Theatre and Utopia at the ISSEI 2010 Conference, (International Society for the Study of European Ideas) held in cooperation with Cankaya University, Ankara, Turkey, 2-6 August 2010 o o Ongoing editing work of the participants contributions for the proceedings Maya N. Öztürk: Theatre morphology and utopia of mind, agency and community presented in that session, to appear in the proceedings of the ISSEI 2010 Conference Maya N. Öztürk: "On the effects of Exposure and Fear", presented to the Second CTLA Conference, Aberysthwyth, University of Wales, UK May 5-7, 2007 Maya N. Öztürk: "The Performative Site", presented to the IFTR World Congress, working group Performance and Consciousness, Helsinki, Finnland, abstract printed in the Book of Abstracts, pp , Maya N. Öztürk: "Structures of Fear: Exposure at Performance", presented to the 10.th International Conference of ISSEI, Malta, Maya N. Öztürk: "Corporeality and consciousness at the performance site" presented to the First CTLA Conference, Aberysthwyth, University of Wales, UK May 7-9, 2005 Maya N. Öztürk: Qualities of urban space as social and cultural context, invited lecture, Discipline Profession series, presented on , The Chamber of Architects of Turkey. Invited Design Workshop chair: 'Urban encounters: Places, practices, identities"; held at the International Summer School, Faculty of Architecture, Mediterranean University, Cyprus; 19-30, 06, 2006, Magusa (Program Erasmus); in collaboration with Guita Fafarifuari. Invited Design Workshop chair: '(Inter)sections: a space for work and presentations', held at the International Winter- school workshop, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Gazi University, Ankara, Turkey, 2004, in collaboration with Elif. E. Türkkan,

6 OTHER PUBLICATIONS: DISSERTATIONS: 1999 Ph. D. in Architecture; Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey; Dissertation: Conceptualizing Urban Quality Towards a Framework for Analytical Inquiry 1993 M. Arch; Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture, Ankara, Turkey Thesis: Criteria for Evaluating The Qualities of Plazas in Cities REFEREED PROCEEDINGS: Maya N. Öztürk, Elif E. Türkkan: Towards a process oriented approach in interior architecture design education in Re- Integrating Theory and Design in Architectural Education Proceedings of EAAE Conference, 2001 (pp ) Maya N. Öztürk: Lines of mutuality in Research and Architecture Proceedings of EAAE ARCC Conference, 2000 (pp ) Maya N. Öztürk: Constructs for Interpretation of Urban Experience (abstract) in Centre Periphery Globalization Past and present 9 th International Planning History Conference 2000, (abstract, conference not attended) (p 204) Maya N. Öztürk: Quality of urban space/place analytical perspectives Architectura (Publication of the Union of Architects in Bulgaria, the journal of architectural creation, theory and criticism, Sofia, Bulgaria) no. 6, 1999, pp Maya N. Öztürk: Recapturing the Social Significance of Public Space: The City Center Sofia in Defining the Urban Condition Proceedings of the ACSA European Conference, 1995, (pp ) Maya N. Öztürk: A Framework for Interpreting Town Identity in Globalisation/Localisation Proceedings of The International Congress of Local and regional Authorities St Kirik, Bulgaria, 1995 PUBLISHED ABSTRACTS: Maya N. Öztürk: Performative paradigms in design education: Theatre as a framework for thinking through architectural space and studio practice, abstract of paper presented IFTR 2014 World Congress , Warwick, UK, Theatre Architecture Working group, Book of Abstracts p Maya N. Öztürk: Theatre: A mode of spatial organization, abstract of paper presented IFTR 2010 World Congress, Munich, Theatre Architecture Working group, Book of Abstracts p. 166.

7 Maya N. Öztürk: "The Performative Site", abstract of paper, presented to the IFTR World Congress, working group Performance and Consciousness, Helsinki, Finland, , pp , Maya N. Öztürk: Constructs for Interpretation of Urban Experience (abstract) in Center Periphery Globalization Past and present 9 th International Planning History Conference 2000, (abstract, conference not attended) (p 204) Workshop publications: Maya N. Öztürk, Elif E. Türkkan: (Inter)sections a space for work and presentation in Winter School 2004 Workshop Series No 2. Edited by Zeynep Uludag, Ankara: Rekmay Lted., pp ***** TEACHING MFA THESIS SUPERVISION - Graduate level: Effects of different seating arrangements on learning experience: The case of medium sized lecture settings in Bilkent University by Selin Hilal (to be completed June 2014) Changing Identity of Space/Place The Case of Bars Street in Bodrum by Burcu Bilgenoglu (2006) Inquiry into the Therapeutic Potential of Social Space in Children s Hospitals by Pinar Yilmaz (2005) A Study on Architectural Elements of Space Identity by Tugba Seyda Aksehir (2003) Graduate level: PhD and Masters Jury member PhD level Thesis supervision committee (since 2013) Meltem Aranil Demirli: "Gendered patterns of modernism in Izmir Culture Park: Reading the tripple dialectic of modernity, gender and space" // advisor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Meltem Gurel Graduation Jury member Segah Sak: "Cyberspace as a locus for urban collective memory" January 2013 // advisor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Burcu Senyapili

8 Masters level Graduation Jury member Merve Kurt "The concept of authenticity in the protection of Industrial heritage: The case of Samsun Tobacco factory building" // advisor: Assist.Prof.Dr. Inci Basa Gizem Sazan: "Cultural representations in themed environments: The case of English pub in Ankara" March 2014 // advisor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Meltem Gurel Zeynep Dagli: "Interior Design contributions to customer perception of corporate identity" May 2013 // advisor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Burcu Senyapili Seckin Sagiroglu: Value and warmth of color in consideration of surface elements and perception of store image" December 3013 // advisor Assist.Prof.Dr. Cagri Imamoglu Berfin Ivegen "Gendering urban space:'saturday Mothers'" June 2004 // advisor Assoc.Prof.Dr. Gulsum Baydar UNDERGRADUATE COURSES Must courses (IAED /302, present) Interior Design Studio III & IV third year design studio (IAED /402, ) Interior Design Studio V, IV - fourth year design studio (IAED /102, ) Basic Design Studio I & II - first year design studio (IAED /302, ) Interior Design Studio III & IV third year design studio (IAED /202, ) Interior Design Studio I & II second year design studio (FA 171, present) Introduction to Art and Culture, first year must course for the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture Elective courses (personally developed) (IAED ) Public Interiors a course proposed by M.N. Öztürk and included in the curriculum in

9 Public interiors: A theoretical course focusing on and exploring social space in terms of spatial identity, experience and practices, space- body and space- activity relations. The problematic of social space is taken up in the context of places of culture (performance art, as well as exhibitions in museum and galleries) and places of leisure (shopping, entertainment) IAED Public Interiors modified in 2008 as an application course, including lectures on theoretical framework, and focused design implementation Special theme - THE MATERIAL THEATRE: EVENT AND SPACE Contents this implementation of the course takes up theatre as source for a set of concepts and references informing design, employed to further understanding of social space both theoretically, and practically in a series of design problems; design applications including also stage space design for selected text- plays... (IAED , ) Current Issues in Interior Design II Special theme - - HOUSE / HOME: COMPONENTS, CONSTITUTION, AND QUALITIES Contents: A course exploring the links between identity, inhabitation and materiality of space in the context of dwelling (individual house, and/or apartment units). It seeks to build up specified awareness and understanding of the (contemporary) culture of living in a historical perspective, and develop references for design. NON- ACADEMIC INTERESTS Creative writing, jewelry, pastel drawing Creative writing publications: Maya Nanitchkova Öztürk, Inhabitations of a Breath, in e- journal Consciousness, Literature and the Arts (CLA), August 2008, CLA- Journal@listserv.lincoln.ac.uk Maya Nanitchkova, String, in Septemvry The Journal of the Union of Bulgarian Writers, October 1984, No.10, pp