Burcu Korkut, Research Assistant at the Department of Architecture, who participated in the İlhan Tekeli Thesis Awards, organized annually by the İlhan Tekeli Foundation for Urbanism Culture (İTŞKV), with her master's thesis titled ”The Externalization of Urban Praxis in the Dialectic of Consumption and Production: Street Art”, which she completed in 2023, has qualified for the second stage after the evaluation of the selection committee. In 2023, the İlhan Tekeli Thesis Awards received 90 thesis applications from a wide range of fields including urban and regional planning, architecture, conservation and restoration, urban design, political science, public administration, urban politics, sociology, landscape, geography, transportation, traffic, environmental sciences, economics, and labor economics. The theses were evaluated in two stages by 30 selection committee members from various universities and fields. Within the scope of this year's İlhan Tekeli Thesis Awards, which was held on December 13, 2024 at İPA Campus, Florya with the support of Istanbul Planning Agency, the poster exhibition of the theses of the researchers who made it to the second stage, including the work of Research Assistant Burcu Korkut, can be visited at İPA Campus until the end of December 2024.
