Ela Gok
Ela Gok
- Lecturer
- Job Title
- Lecturer
- School or Academic Area
- School of Design
- e.gok@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Reid Building, 164 Renfrew St, Glasgow G3 6RQ
Biography
I completed my undergraduate degree at the Bartlett School of Architecture (2018) and recently obtained a master’s in ‘Architecture and Urban Studies’ from Kadir Has University (2023).
My work primarily focuses on memory and spatial justice, exploring the use of physical making and digital mediums (interactive mapping, 3D scanning, 3D modelling) as tools for the translation of complex relationships involving identity, displacement, and place.
I am a member of Turkish NGO Architecture for All (Herkes İçin Mimarlık) and, following the devastating 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, contributed to their ‘Post Disaster Reconstruction Plan’ through co-organising and participating in two design-build projects in the affected region.
Research Interests
My current research focuses on post-disaster community practices and spaces, heritage and memory, participatory design, and analogue and digital making.
Grants
In 2022, I received a research grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation to support field research on Armenian cultural heritage sites within the Kars region of Turkey.
Latest Additions
- Gok, Ela, Price, Sam, Güllüoğlu, Emrah, Üngür, Erdem, Gündoğdu, Emre and Aykaç, Gülşah (2025) Çekmece Community Centre: Rebuilding Together After Disaster. Project Report. Self Published (Architecture For All).
- Gök, Ela and Tuncer, Ezgi (2023) An unsettling re-composition: Istanbul's lost Armenian April 11 Memorial. Journal of Historical Geography, 81. pp. 19-31. ISSN 0305-7488 (print) 1095-8614 (online)
