Liana Kuyumcuyan is a social designer based in Istanbul, Turkey.

 

She studied Industrial Design (BA) at Istanbul Bilgi University and Social Design (MA) at Design Academy Eindhoven. She graduated with Architecture and Urban Studies (MA) at Istanbul Kadir Has University, with her thesis called Micro-publics: Sitting outdoors as a resilient practice in a transforming city. Currently, she is a doctoral candidate at the National Technical University of Athens in the Department of Architectural Language, Communication, and Design, focusing on her thesis called A comparative study on micro-publics: Sitting outdoors in Istanbul, Athens and Naples.

 

Currently, she is a guest lecturer at the Kadir Has University in the Industrial Design department. 

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She was the project and event coordinator of Postane, an urban hub for social change in Istanbul. She ran the research project Searching for a Cosmopolitan City in a Building, which collected archives about the Postane building, originally built as a British Post Office in 1859. Together with Murat Tülek, they wrote a book about the history of the building, called Postane: Archeology of a Building. 

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She has been the Executive Editor of Design Unlimited between 2019-2024, an Istanbul-based magazine focusing on thematic design concepts.

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