Peer-reviewed proceedings
Map / Writing
Writing
Publications, editorial and curatorial work, and peer review.
01 / Approach
Developing questions through writing, and creating contexts for ideas to meet.
Writing is a method of inquiry in my work. Some texts grow directly from research and fieldwork; others emerge through teaching, projects, and spatial practice. Across these forms, writing helps me trace relationships, clarify what I am seeing, and communicate it to different audiences.
Selected academic work is published under the name Çiçek Karataş Yıldırım.
02 / Publications & conference presentations
03 worksConference presentation — accepted
Tracing Living Heritage After Rupture: The Four-Quadrant Framework in Post-Earthquake Antakya
Conference presentation
Spiritual and Cultural Sustainability: Preserving Heritage in Antakya, Turkey, After the Earthquake
03 / Editorial & curatorial work
04 projectsCo-editor
Prometheus: IIT PhD Journal of Architecture, Vol. 7
As co-editor, I contributed to the volume’s thematic and editorial framing, selection of contributions, author revisions, production, and layout.
Co-editor
Weekly PhD newsletter
Gathered contributions from across the department, wrote and edited weekly summaries, and assembled the newsletter for circulation among PhD students, faculty, other schools and departments, and external academic contacts.
Co-curator & co-organizer
ACSF Chicago Salon
Co-curated Common Ground: Altars, Architecture, and Collective Memory, a distributed Salon exploring relationships among architecture, spirituality, cultural memory, and identity across Chicago. The program moved between sites including Crown Hall, Unity Temple, and Perkins & Will, using different architectural and institutional settings as part of the conversation while bringing together tours, dialogue, workshops, and invited participants.
Co-organizer & co-curator
In Between: Architecture and the Development of the Urban Landscape
Co-curated an international symposium examining contemporary architecture in relation to changing urban contexts across North American landscapes. I helped shape the program through keynote and speaker selection, bringing different perspectives into a sustained conversation at Crown Hall.
04 / Peer review
02 reviewsBlind peer reviewer
ACSF Montréal Salon
ACSF
Conducted blind peer review of dialogue circle submissions for the 2026 salon.
Blind peer reviewer
ACSF 15: Myths and Placemaking
ACSF
Conducted blind peer review of submissions across paper and panel proposal categories.