Didem Turk is a city planner and PhD candidate in the Architecture History and Project at Politecnico di Torino. Her background is urban planning and urban design. She received her bachelor’s degree in Middle East Technical University (METU) from the City and Regional Planning Department. She pursued her Master degree in Urban Design at METU in the context of post-conflict urban areas. In the meantime, she followed studio related to parametric design. She is currently conducting a research on comparative urban morphology at FULL in collaboration of Transitional Morphologies Research Unit. Her field of interest is urban morphology, comparative urban morphology studies, and parametric design.