Merve Bedir

Merve Bedir is an architect. Her ongoing work examines infrastructures of hospitality and mobility. A second line of work follows the human and nonhuman relationships in the context of ecology and cybernetics. She is a co-initiator of Mutfak Workshop focusing on the kitchen as a cultural space in Gaziantep, Turkey; Aformal Academy, an experimental school program in Pearl River Delta region, China; Center for Spatial Justice in Istanbul, Turkey. 

Merve curated Uncommon River, Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2015; Vocabulary of Hospitality, Istanbul, Turkey, 2015; Automated Landscapes, Shenzhen, 2017 and 2019, China. Recent exhibitions include Montecarlo (in Hauntologist, BAK, 2023), Floor Table (in Designing Peace, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, 2022), Unsettled Urbanism (in Matadero Madrid, 2020, and Venice Architecture Biennale, 2021). Her fellowships include BAK, Utrecht (2021), Schloss Solitude (2023), Pogon Zagreb (2023). 

Merve has a PhD from Delft University of Technology. She taught in Design Academy Eindhoven, Hong Kong University, Delft University of Technology, and Columbia GSAPP.