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Merve Sahin is an architect and researcher addressing ecological, technological and political challenges of contemporary architecture through speculative storytelling. She works with immersive media environments and parametric architecture. She is interested in entanglements between human and non-human landscapes. Her practice focuses on post-digital public spaces through worldbuilding, media ecologies and material experiments in the form of transmedia installations. Her recent projects reclaim agency through architecture in ecologically, socially and politically compromised environments.
Merve has received multiple prestigious grants, including EU-funded residencies and national awards, highlighting her innovative contributions to architectural research and artistic production. Her work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale and Ars Electronica. Her current project, Merging Visions, is being developed within the framework of the ongoing S+T+Arts Ec(h)o residency. Through visual essays and physical sampling, the project engages with transforming urban environments. It offers a new perspective on architectural visualizations, emphasizing the ephemeral and non-material qualities of urban spaces to evoke a sense of kinship in the viewer.
In addition to her research practice, Merve has professional experience as an architectural designer in renowned offices. She holds a master's degree in architecture from Studio Díaz Moreno & Efrén García Grinda at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, where she also studied under Studio Kazuyo Sejima. Currently, she continues to pursue interdisciplinary collaborations, developing critical, experiential projects at the intersection of architecture, ecology, and digital media.