Cagil Yurdakul was born in Tekirdag, Turkey, in 1980. After graduating from Architecture I.T.U (2001), she received a B.S degree in Product Design (2007) and P.H.D degree in History of Art (2014) from I.T.U. During her masters she was granted the sc
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Cagil Yurdakul was born in Tekirdag, Turkey, in 1980. After graduating from Architecture I.T.U (2001), she received a B.S degree in Product Design (2007) and P.H.D degree in History of Art (2014) from I.T.U. During her masters she was granted the scholarship of ILLY for 4 months of Unidee Artist Residence Program in Biella, Italy. She is still a member of Pistoletto Foundation. During her P.H.D studies she moved to Italy as visiting scholar in Politecnico di Milano for more than one year. She is currently an instructor in the Department of Interior Architecture at Istanbul Technical University and responsible of the Interior Design in Cinema Course, Interior Architecture Design Studios, Furniture Design Studio, Materials and Finishing in Furniture Design Course. She took part in several IP projects, Biennales and workshops such as Abandoned Sacred Places in Belgium, POSIAC in Germany, IMIAD workshops in Switzerland, Turkey and India, Istanbul Design Biennale in Turkey. Her research interests are furniture design, cinematic design, semiotics, psychoanalysis and design (she took courses on psychoanalysis for 6 months). Apart from her academic works she completed many interior design projects ranging from private houses to boats.
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