Nazli Tumerdem is an architect/researcher from Istanbul. She received her B.Arch degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and M.Arch degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. She worked as an architect in various architectural offices and as a lecturer at several universities. In 2016, she was part of the team of Turkish Pavilion for the 15th Architecture Biennial of Venice. She completed her Ph.D. entitled 'Istanbul Walkabouts: A Critical Walking Study of Northern Istanbul' (2018) at Istanbul Technical University and continues performing walks around northern Istanbul as a part of her walking research project Istanbul Walkabouts. On September 2019, she will start her postdoctoral research at ETH Zurich D-ARCH Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning.