Ezgi Umut is a Milan-based spatial designer and landscape architect working across installations, set design, and temporary environments. Since graduating in 2021, she has developed a practice rooted in the production of spatial experiences, working on-site across Milan Design Week and other international events, often within multidisciplinary teams that bridge concept, production, and execution.
Her background in landscape architecture informs a particular sensitivity to materiality, atmosphere, and organic composition, which often extends into floral and spatial installations. Alongside her spatial practice, she works with painting as a parallel medium, exploring color, rhythm, and emotional landscapes through abstraction.
Ezgi holds a BSc in Landscape Architecture from Istanbul Technical University, where she received the National Best Graduation Project Award, and an MSc in Architecture and Urban Design from Politecnico di Milano. Her thesis investigated the spatial pedagogies of protest, examining how collective movements reshape public space through mapping and architectural tools.
Her work has been presented internationally, including exhibitions at Torino Art Week and Venice International Art Fair, and has been recognized through several national and international awards, including a Red Dot Design Award for the project MIRAGE with uauproject.
Awards
2023 RED DOT AWARD Spatial Design
2022 AWARDED PROJECT Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
2022 Platinum PRIZE Xone Design Competition Ceramic Tiles
2022 Gold PRIZE Xone Design Competition Product Design
2021 1ST PRIZE Cemer Play Equipment Design Competition
2020 HONORABLE MENTION Terraviva Design Competition
2020 1ST PRIZE Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
2020 1ST PRIZE Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
2020 2ND PRIZE Meles Stream and Yeşildere Valley
2020 SHORTLIST Archisearch Pandemic Architecture
2019 1ST PRIZE 11th Landscape Architecture Awards
2016 2ND PRIZE Bandirma Park Design Competition
2016 HONORABLE MENTION Kizilirmak Stream Urban Design Competition
2016 IFLA AWARD Students and Young Professionals Competition
2016 2ND PRIZE Bandirma Park Design Competition
2016 HONORABLE MENTION Kizilirmak Stream Urban Design Competition
2016 IFLA AWARD Students and Young Professionals Competition
ARCHIVE
IASLA Conference 2026 Contaminazioni
Politecnico di Milano,
Presented “Land in Conflict: Protest, Care and Extractive Contamination”
Piacenza, Italy
March 2026
Framing Transition Symposium
University of Genova
Participation “Collective Choreographies: Dialogues of Transition in Public Space”
Genova, Italy
January 2026
3rd Participatory Design Conference
“ Spatial Justice in the Era of the Climate Crisis”
Invited Speaker, “Dialogue Hub”
Athens, Greece
December 2025
IFLA World Congress
“Guiding Landscapes”
Invited speaker “Disco Manifesto”
Nantes, France
September 2025
Soon:
Cow Galerie
Bloom Collective Exhibition
After Image Collective Exhibition,
Spazio Milesi,
Milano Italy
2026
Venice International Art Fair,
Venice, Italy
2025
Torino Art Week,
Diffusissima,
Torino Italy
2025
Landworks,
Istanbul, Turkiye
2018
Zero Istanbul,
Istanbul, Turkiye
2015
Contact
ezgium.work@gmail.com
@ezgium
20131 Milan, Italy