Ece Tankal is a Turkish Architect. IAAC Alumni, Ece completed her Master in advanced Architecture in 2014, presenting a project entitled Translated Geometries, developed along with Efilena Baseta and Ramin Shambayati, investigating the potential of programmable matter, in particular, Shape Memory Polymers, towards the generation of Responsive Environments.

Before coming to IAAC, Ece Completed a joint degree of the IED and UAB (Barcelona) in Interior Design, specializing in the design for Commercial Spaces; as well as a degree in Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at the Bilkent University in Ankara.

Ece is the Co-founder and Head of Creative Design at Hyphen-Labs, an international team of women of colour working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future.