Pelin Tan is a sociologist and art historian. She received a PhD in art history from the Istanbul Technical University with a thesis on “Locality as a Discursive Concept in Recent Socially Engaged Practice.” She is currently associate professor and vice-dean of the Architecture Faculty at Mardin Artuklu University. She has contributed to numerous publications, amongst others The Ethics of Locality: Urban Commons and The Unconditional Hospitality and Threshold Architecture (dpr barcelona -2014) and Arazi (Critical Spatial Practice Serie- Sternberg Press 2015).

As of October 2013