Ayça Tugran (b. 1998, Izmir) is an architect and designer with a keen interest in spatial experiences, scenography, and motion design. She is currently a DAAD scholarship in the field of architecture holder, pursuing a Master’s degree in Media Architecture at Bauhaus University Weimar. She graduated with high honors with a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from Middle East Technical University in 2023.

Her bachelor thesis, “Heterotopias for Urban Hacking,” was awarded by Archiprix Turkey 2023. Her personal photography work, “Maruziyet,” won first place in the Architectural Photography Competition organized by the Association of Architects 1927 in 2022. Additionally, her artworks “Ethnic Set” and “Canon4” have been exhibited at Pera Museum (Istanbul, 2024) and CerModern (Ankara, 2023), respectively.

Within the scope of her design and research, she explores notions of inequalities, otherness, socio-political power structures, and politics of representation.