Kaan Karabagli is a Fulbright Scholar and Research Fellow at Yale CEA, where his research focuses on XR-mediated spatial computing, digital placemaking, and the ecological transformation of urban ecosystems. His dissertation, titled “The Flâneur’s Role in Urban Ecosystems: Mixed Reality and Spatial Design for Non-Anthropocentric Cities,” explores how mixed reality can redefine urban environments through a non-anthropocentric lens.

Kaan holds a Master of Architecture from Die Angewandte, where he studied under renowned architects Zaha Hadid, Greg Lynn, and Kazuyo Sejima, as well as a second master’s in Renewable Energy Systems from TU Wien. He also earned a third master’s degree from SCI-Arc’s EDGE program in Liam Young’s Fiction and Entertainment studio. His interdisciplinary background allows him to merge architectural design with ecological and technological innovations.

Prior to joining Yale, Kaan was a recipient of the “Turkish Scientific Research Council” (TUBITAK) Research Fellowship at the City Development through Design Intelligence (CIDDI) lab at Istanbul Technical University (ITU), where he is currently a doctoral candidate in the Architectural Design Computing program. He has worked as a licensed architect and has published his research in multiple scholarly venues. Kaan has also held faculty positions and conducted design studios and workshops at institutions such as SCI-Arc, Die Angewandte, ITU, and Istanbul Bilgi University. His academic teachings focus on urban ecosystems from a posthuman perspective, as well as speculative architecture and computational design.

At Yale CEA, Kaan collaborates with Professor Anna Dyson on projects that address climate challenges and the reshaping of urban environments. He is also contributing to the United Nations COP initiative on urban desertification UNCCD and IDRO.