Elif Kendir B. is a faculty member at Istanbul Bilgi University. She graduated from Middle East Technical University, Department of Architecture, where she was a Sabancı scholarship recipient. She earned an MSc in Advanced Architectural Design from GSAPP at Columbia University, with  the Turkish Higher Education Council scholarship, and an MArch degree from Middle East Technical University with her thesis “Appropriation of the Gigantic : on the relationship between architecture and modern technology”. She then completed her PhD with RUIS scholarship in the Spatial Information Architecture Laboratory at RMIT University with her dissertation titled “Learning from the construction site: an epistemological investigation of stonemasons and architects in action.” She has taught architecture theory courses and design studios in Turkey and in Australia at different levels since 2006. Apart from her academic studies, she is one of the founding members of an experimental design collective fol+, exploring modes of architectural communication and materiality through different installations. Her artistic and academic works have appeared at national and international exhibitions, conferences and biennials. Her research focuses on theories of embodiment and situatedness, especially in relation to tacit knowledge practices in premodern architectural production. She is most recently interested in decolonial theories in the context of deep ecology and alternative modes of coexistence in a post-anthropocentric world .