Dr. Güliz Taşdemir completed her undergraduate education at Başkent University and received her master’s and PhD degrees from Hacettepe University. In 2018, she received her doctorate with her thesis titled “Urban Interiors: Arcades in the Memory of Ankara, (1950-1980)”. She studies alternative stories of the city through oral history, discusses spatial identity, meaning, context relations, and continues her research on the connection between space and social history. This research connects with her later work, including the symposium presentation “Intersecting Domesticities Through the Microhistory of a Family: From Rumelia and the Caucasus to Anatolia” (2021), which examined home-making journeys and domestic re-rooting through her family archive. She presented related findings at the international symposium “Spaces/Times/Peoples: ‘Dispossession’ and Architectural History” organized by METU, where she explored spatial transformation and identity formation within domestic contexts shaped by mobility. Between 2011 and 2022, she held academic positions at Başkent University. Since 2022, she has been a faculty member at TED University. She is also an active member of Docomomo_Turkey, the Docomomo Turkey Interior Committee, and the 4T Design and Design History Society.

Dr. Güliz Taşdemir’s (TED University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Program, Ankara, Turkey) research interest at UBC explores how migrant families shaped and adapted their domestic spaces in mid-20th-century Vancouver. Approaching the topic through the lens of ‘interior space’, ‘home’, her work draws on archival photographs, neighborhood maps, and housing-related documents to examine how home-making processes reflect cultural memory and spatial adaptation processes. In the second phase, the research will expand to include a comparative case study from her hometown, Ankara, Turkey. While the Vancouver case highlights international migration and multicultural urbanism, the Ankara case focuses on internal migration and rapid urbanization. This cross-cultural perspective offers an exploratory understanding of how mobility influences the transformation of domestic life and space.

Taşdemir, G., & Uysal, A. (2024). Reading Interiors in 1980s Ankara: Transformation of Gallery Art Production and Private Art Galleries. ICONARP International Journal of Architecture and Planning, 12(2), 828–847. https://doi.org/10.15320/ICONARP.2024.306