Seyda is an architect and researcher whose work bridges architecture, urban studies, politics, and narrative theories. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Architecture at the University of Cambridge, where her research explores the narrativity of participation in Cambridge Room and its intertwined relations with epistemic authority and credibility.

Seyda’s broader research practice extends across the Scroope: Cambridge Architecture Journal, where she is one of four Editors-in-Chief, and the CRASSH Research Lab, both of which act as parallel experiments in politics of knowledge production. Across these platforms, her work seeks to cultivate collective, situated, and dialogical approaches to publishing, collaboration, and participation as interconnected modes of inquiry.

Seyda holds a BA in Architecture, BA in International Relations, MS in Political Science, and MPhil in Architecture and Urban Studies. She is a recipient of the Turkish Ministry of Education doctoral scholarship.