Murat Germen visited three earthquake struck cities in Türkiye with the most damage, ten days after the disaster of the century. After this initial damage assessment study in the field, he went to Antakya three more times in two years to lead a workshop that resulted in a comprehensive group show in Leipzig, document the rubble removal process and follow the exceedingly intense post-earthquake reconstruction activity. The talk will focus on pre-disaster vulnerabilities and post-disaster gentrification.

Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an expression / research tool. He has a MArch degree from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he went as a Fulbright scholar and received AIA Henry Adams Gold Medal for academic excellence. He works as a professor of art, photography and new media at Sabanci University in Istanbul.