Benek Çinçik is a researcher and designer. Since 2015, she has been working on her PhD thesis entitled “‘Relational Intensities’ in Architectural Design: Questions of Scale, Ephemerality and Interiority in the Anthropocene.”

She has Bachelor’s degrees in Interior Architecture (2008) and Architecture (2009) from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). After working in several design offices (Superpool, TRafo Architects), she started MArch at ITU in 2010. Her Master’s thesis was about the interaction between urban space and individuals, reading urban space through “affect.” Since 2010, she has been working as a research and teaching assistant in the Department of Interior Architecture at ITU. Currently, she is a PhD candidate in Architectural Design and an instructor in interior architecture and architecture design studios at ITU. Since January 2016, she has been a visiting PhD student in the Architecture Department at the University of Edinburgh.