Sevgi Türkkan, PhD, architect and researcher, is a graduate of ITU Faculty of Architecture, and has been teaching architectural design studio and theory courses in the same faculty since 2004. She completed her dissertation in 2017 entitled “Making and Breaking Authorship, Potentials in Architectural Design Studio”in Istanbul Technical University, Architectural Design Program. Her published works in international books (by Taylor& Francis, Cambridge Scholars, Springer Adaptive Environment Series, i.e.), journals and conferences, as well as research and curatorial projects mainly dwells on architectural theory, architectural design education, questions of authorship and use in architecture. In 2009-2010 she was granted a Fulbright Scholarship to attend Columbia GSAPP in New York, USA as a PhD Visiting Scholar. With the 2018-2019 Post-Doctoral Scholarship from the French Embassy and ITU, she completed her Post-Doctoral research on the ”Pedagogy of the Loge” at the  Research laboratory IPRAUS-UMR3329 in Paris, France. She has been invited to international conferences as keynote speaker, lectures and attended jury reviews in universities such as Columbia GSAPP, ENSA Belleville, ENSA Val de Seine, Hasselt University, Cambridge University, T.U.Dublin etc. She has also contributed to EAAE Education Academy’s Scientific and Organisation committee as a member.