{"id":2176,"date":"2025-10-14T10:09:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/?page_id=2176"},"modified":"2025-10-14T10:09:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T10:09:19","slug":"ekin-baskentli","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/?page_id=2176","title":{"rendered":"Ekin Ba\u015fkentli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-2177\" src=\"http:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-758x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"838\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-758x1024.jpg 758w, https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-768x1037.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-973x1314.jpg 973w, https:\/\/www.collectivespaces-kuleuven.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Ekin-Baskentli_photo_website-508x686.jpg 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ekin Ba\u015fkentli (1997) is an architect and researcher from Turkey, currently based in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She completed her Bachelor\u2019s studies in Architecture at TED University (Ankara, Turkey). In 2020, she began her Master\u2019s studies in Architecture at KU Leuven (campus Sint-Lucas Ghent), graduating magna cum laude in 2022.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her master\u2019s thesis \u201c<em>Mending Wall: Documenting as an Act of Maintenance \u2013 Maintaining the Border Wall of Divided Nicosia<\/em>\u201d became the cornerstone of her academic trajectory. \u00a0Focusing on the border wall in North Nicosia, the project employed architectural tools to uncover hidden spatial narratives of division. The thesis was awarded the Van Hove Prize 2022, the Dean\u2019s Choice Prize 2022 of the International Master of Architecture (Ghent), and was selected as a finalist for the UNESCO HERSUS Prize on Modern Heritage 2023, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the EU.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ekin is currently a PhD researcher at KU Leuven with her project \u201c<em>Atlas Power: Dissecting and Unfolding the Dissonant Heritage of Nicosia, Cyprus<\/em>.\u201d Her research investigates the contested heritage of Europe\u2019s last divided capital, where dominant political narratives often overshadow evolving spatial realities. The project uses atlas-making as both a spatial and epistemic tool. The atlas operates through two acts: (1) Dissection \u2014 deconstructing Nicosia\u2019s existing spatial fabric to expose hidden dynamics, and (2) Unfolding \u2014 creating new spatial narratives through the production of architectural artefacts such as maps, drawings, sketches, and models. In doing so, it seeks to confront contested urban realities beyond fixed accounts of division. This research is funded by the FWO Fundamental Research Grant and is supervised by Professor Gis\u00e8le Gantois (Urban Projects, Collective Spaces and Local Identities) and co-supervised by Professor Rajesh Heynickx (Architectural Cultures of the Recent Past).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ekin Ba\u015fkentli (1997) is an architect and researcher from Turkey, currently based in Belgium. She completed her Bachelor\u2019s studies in Architecture at TED University (Ankara, Turkey). 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