Dilşad Aladağ is a researcher and practitioner working across cultural, artistic, architectural, and curatorial fields. Her work explores transition processes, focusing on spatial and ecological dynamics, performances of power and resilience. Through archival and field research, she unravels overlapping temporalities and spatialities, weaving them into narratives that foster poetic and political dialogues.
With a background in architecture and urban studies, she bridges research with artistic and design experimentation. Her collaborative and individual practices, such as The Garden of (not) Forgetting Project and Mahsul Initiative, supported by grants like SALT Research Funds, SAHA Sustainability Fund, Culture CIVIC Grassroots Programme and Prince Claus Seeds Awards. Her work has been presented at Kunsthaus Hamburg, DEPO Istanbul, Jewish Museum of Franconia, SALT, Daadgalerie, and SAVVY Contemporary.
She is a doctoral student in the Arts and Design PhD programme at the Bauhaus University of Weimar and a visiting artist at IASPIS, Stockholm in spring 2025. Her current research traces the entangled histories of landscape, nomadic pastoralism, and environmental transformations in southern Anatolia, drawing connections to nomadic ecologies in the globe. Through speculative storytelling and archival and material research, she explores how water bodies, vegetation, and pastoralist movements shape—and are shaped by—cultural and political structures.
Visit Dilşad Aladağ’s website here
October 2025 – joining the Dwell Here Research Intensive Week from 15 – 21 October 2025
Research Focus
For their Dwell Here residency Dilşad Aladağ will focus on their ongoing collaboration with fellow one month resident Burak Çevik to address the fluid and complex relationships between memory, space and resilience, examining how landscapes – both human and non-human – bear witness to histories of transformation, destruction and survival. In their current work together, they explore how forgotten histories and environmental change converge within contested landscapes situated on the southern Anatolian coast. These spaces, as witnesses to political violence and ecological shifts, offer a rich site for addressing the interplay of resilience and erasure. The work is not simply about documenting the past, but about creating a dialogue – both poetic and political – about how spaces remember, how they resist, and how they invite us to reimagine the future.
Dwell Here offers participants a simple proposition: to commit to this time and place while thinking deeply about its urgencies. Together we are curious to learn what can be activated or challenged through the process of dwelling. IMMA encourages reflection across the following themes to consider geographical, historical, political and cultural concepts of Ireland as a starting point to expand and connect international contexts through similarities and differences:
Technologies of Peace – to consider commemorative landscapes and memories of peace (as a dream, movement, or value) while generating perspectives on sustainable coexistence.
The Irish Paradigm – Welcomes artistic research that creates intimacy and connections, while celebrating the perceived agility and freedoms of operating on the periphery. As a small island on the edge of Europe, Ireland often has a challenging relationship with ‘the centre’.
The Museum as a Site of Vibration – consider how the museum and site can create new vibrations and rhythms within the built legacy of empire. How can museums make visible cultural shifts, including erased, censored or marginalised histories, as well as sustainability, planetary care, sharing and hospitality.