Neylan

Ogutveren Aular

I am a doctoral researcher in Landscape Studies at the University of Turku. My research examines plastic waste sensibilities and insensibilities in Nordic urban environments, with a focus on Turku as a site where advanced waste infrastructures shape how cleanliness, pollution, and environmental responsibility are lived and sensed. Through resonant practices, sensory walking, dérive, and multisensory attunement, including listening, touch, smell, and atmospheric perception, I explore how urban atmospheres register subtle presences and absences of plastic, including microplastic wear in air, dust, and sound.

My dissertation, Plastic Waste Entanglements: Sensory Encounters in the Urbanscape of Turku, approaches plastic waste as a site where material, affective, and ecological processes meet. By bringing humanistic inquiry into dialogue with environmental knowledge practices, the project foregrounds relationality, durational wear, and everyday ethics of becoming with waste.