A-501, EKA
Start Date:
25.05.2026
Start Time:
09:30
End Date:
25.05.2026
Everyone’s warmly invited to Master’s thesis presentations by EKA Urban Studies students.
May 25, 2026, 09:30
EKA, A-501
09:30–10:20 Melissa Lee
The Uneven Grounds of Publicness: Community and Control in Singapore’s Void Decks
10:20–11:10 Maria Kazlovskaya
Making Space, Finding Meaning: Youth and the Use of Urban Space in Tallinn, Estonia11:20–12:10 Adeolu Jeremiah Afolabi
Island Urbanism: Power and Spaces of Exceptions
12:10–13:00 Annabel Pops
The Startup City: Entrepreneurial Governance and Growth-Oriented Planning in Contemporary Northern Tallinn
14:00–14:50 Laman Mammadli
Green Displacement: Phased Construction of Baku Central Park and its Impact on the Sovetsky and Bayırşəhər Neighbourhoods (Baku, Azerbaijan)
14:50–15:40 Marta Bodnar
Grassroots Memorial at Maidan Nezalezhnosti at the Crossroads: Documenting the History of Now and the Risk of Institutionalisation
15:40–16:30 Yiğithan Akçay
It Doesn’t Disappear, It Moves: European Plastic Waste and the Governance of Displacement to Türkiye
16:40–17:30 Verdha Anjum
The Urban Political Ecology of River Ravi Transformation: Unpacking the Institutional Mechanisms Behind Manufactured Flood Risk in Lahore, Pakistan
17:30–18:20 Lion Herrmann
Artful Perfection: An Examination of the Instrumentalisation of Culture and Art in the Context of the New City Quarter, Am Tacheles, in Berlin’s Centre.
Supervisors: Nabeel Imtiaz, Maroš Krivý, Kaija-Luisa Kurik, Leonard Ma, Mattias Malk, Agáta Marzec, Karlis Ratnieks, Mira Samonig, Sean Tyler, Karina Vabson
Reviewers: Kush Badhwar, Sinan Erensü, Tahl Kaminer, Daria Khrystych, Madita Kümmeringer, Anton Küünal, Lily Song, Tauri Tuvikene, Aro Velmet
Evaluation committee: Sergio Davila, Maroš Krivý (non-voting), Maria Lindmäe, Andres Ojari (chairman), Helen Runting, Sean Tyler (non-voting)