Hilal Bozkurt



Contact: me@hilalbozk.com









I am an architect, spatial designer and design researcher working across spatial practice, urban research, visual culture and artistic inquiry. My work examines how urban and everyday spaces are produced through bodily difference, access, care and participation, with particular attention to the norms that shape who is accommodated, excluded or required to adapt.

My practice combines spatial and urban research with mapping, editorial design, participatory methods, installations and workshops. I approach these formats not simply as modes of representation, but as research tools through which spatial conditions, social relations and lived urban experiences can be observed, interpreted and reconfigured. Alongside this research-led practice, I maintain an independent painting practice concerned with atmosphere, perception and embodied experience.

I am currently completing my MA in Integrated Design Research at Köln International School of Design (KISD), TH Köln. My current research draws on crip theory and disability studies to investigate fluctuating bodily needs, care and accessibility in relation to urban space, asking how spatial design might move beyond assumptions of stability, normalcy and the universal body.
Spatial Research
Participatory Design
Crip Theory
Urban Practices
Care & Accessibility
Editorial Design