Gozde Yildiz is a conservation architect, Master of Science from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara Turkey, Graduate Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage; and currently PhD candidate at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Turin Italy, Department of Architecture and Design in Doctoral Program of Landscape and Architectural Heritage. Her field of interests focuses on particularly the sustainable re-use of cultural heritage sites by using the contemporary culture as a catalyst of the current zeitgeist, and the decisional process of this transformation from the experts standpoints. Her PhD research analyses different privately owned real-world cases and public cultural policies varying from bottom-up to top-down structured contexts to offer new perspectives and decisional guides to the experts taking part in these transformation processes based on those already realized experiences. 

Based on these fields of interests and past experiences, she develops research in the field of transformation of heritage sites for future challenges, by promoting the new methodologies and new perspectives for management and sustainability of industrial heritage sites, and socio-cultural development of the communities through new culture manifested in these heritage sites. She has worked public institutions, cultural foundations and several NGOs to develop new policies for how to use new culture in these heritage sites as a new representative of industrial culture for future. She is also active member as a volunteer in several international organizations such as UNESCO and E-Faith to promote the industrial heritage sites of Turkey.

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https://www.dad.polito.it/personale/scheda/(nominativo)/gozde.yildiz

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