ÖZGÜL ÖZTÜRK Circular Design
ÖZGÜL ÖZTÜRK Circular Design
Installation
Monday 1st – Friday 12th June
Weekdays only
11:00 – 18:00
RSA House – Long Gallery
8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Part of the London Festival of Architecture 2026
Location London, UK
Year 2026
Project Owner Özgül Öztürk
Role Architect, Curator
CREDITS
Host Venue & Strategic Partner
The RSA (Royal Society for Arts, Manufactures and Commerce)
Installation Partner
Echinus Design
Material Partner
Stonna Limited
(Reclaimed London Bricks)
Digital Alchemist & Architect
İpek Kuran
Special Thanks
Eva Pascoe
Göksel Gürsel
Ekin Albayrak
Hasan Dikme
TEAM
Concept & Digital Visualisation
Beray Dağtekin
Website Design & Digital Visualisation
İlayda Çoksaygılı
Installation Assistants
Elif Asya Ganal
Jack Bond
Julia Peksa
Lorin Mira Oğuz
Çakıl Nehir Özertürk
Arya Sofi
Tuğba Tunç
Visitors can access the Long Gallery via the Durham Street entrance, which provides the most direct route.
Talk
Tuesday 2nd June
18:30 – 19:30 | Talk
Q&A – 19:30 – 20:20 | Informal networking
RSA House – Benjamin Franklin Room
8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
The moderated talk takes place in the Benjamin Franklin Room, just off the main entrance at 8 John Adam Street.
A city is built from bricks; a sense of belonging is built from people.
Belonging Is Built Here is a participatory architectural installation exploring how belonging is formed in London. Built around reclaimed London bricks, the installation highlights circularity and reuse. As the smallest unit of architecture, bricks form structures; in a similar way, people from different parts of the world shape London’s communities. Visitors are invited to answer the question “What makes you feel you belong in London?” with a word, memory, place or feeling, placing their cards between the bricks and gradually creating a collective map of stories.
Installation Rendered Images
Installation Rendered Images, Close – Up Views
This moderated conversation expands on the question “Who builds it, who belongs?” within the “Belonging Is Built Here” installation. It explores belonging not as an abstract idea, but as something shaped through space, material, and lived experience. Moderated by Eva Pascoe (Vice Chair RSA and Trustee), the session brings together Dinah Casson CBE RDI and Özgül Öztürk (Architect, Founder of Özgül Öztürk Studio). The discussion will address how spatial narratives shape experience, and how connections between people and place emerge through material, nature, and community participation, opening a shared reflection on belonging as a continuously constructed process.