TEDU CITY at the 6th World Planning School Congress!
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TEDU CITY Faculty Members Presented Their Research at the 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC 2026)
TED University Department of City and Regional Planning faculty members Dr. Zeynep Eraydın and Research Assistant Elif Merve Nalçakar participated in the 6th World Planning Schools Congress (WPSC 2026), hosted by Aalto University in Helsinki, Finland, between 29 June and 3 July 2026. Bringing together planning scholars and educators from around the world, this year's congress was organized under the theme "Peripheral Visions – Rethinking Planning."
As part of the Track 4: Education and Skills sessions, Eraydın and Nalçakar presented their paper, "Reimagining Planning Education Through the Urban Chronotope: A Pedagogical Experiment in Studio Learning," on 2 July 2026.
The paper presents an experimental pedagogical framework developed within the third-year planning studio at TEDU CITY. Building on Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of the chronotope, the study introduces the urban chronotope as a pedagogical approach that encourages students to engage simultaneously with the spatial and temporal dimensions of cities. Using Adana as the studio context, students explored the city's historical turning points and temporal layers before developing alternative spatial visions for 2050. By integrating past, present, and future within the studio process, the approach aims to foster critical reflection, creativity, and speculative thinking in planning education.
The presentation generated engaging discussions on innovative approaches to planning studio education and the role of temporal thinking in cultivating future-oriented planning practices. The congress also provided a valuable platform for exchanging ideas with planning scholars and educators from around the world.
During the congress, the TEDU CITY team also had the opportunity to reconnect with Prof. Dr. Tuna Taşan-Kok (University of Amsterdam), a member of the Department's Advisory Board.
