
Esra Sert
Assist. Prof. Dr.
She holds a PhD. in Architecture from METU (2020) with a dissertation titled "Urban Metabolism of İstanbul: Waterfronts as Metabolized Socio-Natures between 1839 and 2019". In 2013, she completed her master’s thesis entitled "Rain Water in the Energy Efficient Urban Landscape Design" at the Istanbul Technical University Landscape Architecture Department and BA (2008) at the YTU Department of Architecture in İstanbul in 2008. During her MA, she got scholarships from TUBİTAK for the research projects. She has been researching urban ecology, urban metabolism, urban environmental history, alternative architectural practices, ethics in design and the labor processes of architecture. Besides, she was a fellow of "İstanbul Studies Center" Doctoral Residency Program at KHAS (2019-2021). She is part of the UK Political Ecology Working Group. She enjoys collaborative, creative, and community-engaged multidisciplinary research. She is an assistant professor at the MEF University, Faculty of Arts, Design, and Architecture.
Selected Projects
Media Archive
Public Talks
MEF AAP 027-Interactive Mapping of İstanbul’s Metabolism
Project Coordinator: Dr. Esra Sert
Project period: 2024 April-2025 August.

MEF BAP AAP027-Interactive Mapping of İstanbul’s Metabolism: This project adopts an urban political ecology perspective, which challenges the conventional separation of nature and society. It aims to explore the metabolism of İstanbul, considering its multi-dimensional and dynamic relationships. In other words, the project endeavors to answer whether it's feasible to visually depict the spatial imprints of the intricate metabolic flows of elements like water, soil, urban voids, coal, oil, iron, and cement along the constantly evolving and entangled coastlines of İstanbul.

İstanbul Kıyılarının Metabolizmasına Bakmak: Dolgu Alanlarının Kentsel Politik Ekolojisi
Dünya Mimarlık Günü
Yıkım ve Yeniden İnşa
Konuşma: "İstanbul'un Kıyılarının Metabolizmasına Bakmak"
9 Ekim 2024
SALT Galata, Atölye II-III
Selected Publications
Sert, E. (2022)
Sert, E., Aykaç, G., and Zırh, B. C. (2021)

TMMOB Mimarlar Odası Ankara Şubesi, no: 47, pp. 58-63

Mimarlık, No:410, November-December 2019, pp. 49-51

XXI Architecture and Design Magazine

