Ayça Tugran (b. 1998, Izmir) is an architect, researcher and designer. She is currently a DAAD scholarship holder in the field of architecture, 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.

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

awarded by Archiprix Turkey 2023 – bachelor thesis, Heterotopias for Urban Hacking

awarded by Silver Award, CDSA City Digital Skin Art Festival 2024 – animation, Beyond the Funky

first place in the Architectural Photography Competition organized by the Association of Architects 1927 in 2022 – photography work, Maruziyet

exhibited at Pera Museum (Istanbul, 2024), Ethnic Set

exhibited at CerModern (Ankara, 2023), Canon4