Serra Aşkın is a PhD candidate in Architectural Design at Istanbul Technical University, with an MA degree in Architectural History from the Bartlett, UCL, and a B.Arch degree from ITU. Her main research interests are post-war social housing, the housing crisis and socially conscious and community oriented design processes. She has written articles on architecture, architectural theory, design and visual media for various online and in-print publications. She is a research assistant at İstanbul Bilgi University Department of Architecture, attends to 4th year studios and is the administrative assistant for the Graduate Programmes in Architecture.