Member of the Administrative Board: National Wood Union
Years: 2010-2014
Speaker: “Architectural Planning of a Promenade and Problems faced in Construction”
3.Tourism and Architecture Symposium: “Tourism and Architecture in Urban Culture”. Year: 27.11.2010. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects, Antalya
Speaker: “A Modernist Revolutionary: Seyfi Arkan”
Commemoration of Seyfi Arkan (2008-2010) Symposium. Year: 22.01.2010. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects, Istanbul
Speaker: “Class Notes” Speaker at the opening of the exhibition “Modernist Revolutionary: Seyfi Arkan”
“Modernist Açılımda Bir Öncü: Seyfi Arkan” Tanıtım Söyleşisi ve Tüm Mimari Çalışmaları Sergisi. Year: 15.03.2010. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects, Antalya
Moderator: Kalebodur Serbest Mimarlar Çanakkale Buluşması
Year: 01.10.2010. Organiser: Serbest Mimarlar Derneği
Juror and the Head of the Jury: Kucuksu Master Plan
S.O.S – Competition for Architecture Students. Organiser: Istanbul union of independent Architects. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Kerem Erginoglu, Dogan Hasol, Cem Sorguç, Aydan Volkan
Article: “Akademi Mimarlık Bölümünde Şehircilik Dersleri”
Publication: Batı Akdeniz Mimarlık, No: 47, 09-10.2010, sf.13-15
Guest: Ersen Gürsel, “Long Live Architecture” TV Show
“Architect and his Client” (Episode 2). Year: 29.08.2009. Consultant: Doğan Tekeli. Other Guests: Doğan Tekeli, Han Tümertekin, Uğur Tanyeli, Emine Cansever Öğün, Oğuz Öztuzcu
Speaker: “Architecture as a new trend of Consumption”
Year: 03.11.2009. Organiser: Architects Association 1927
Opening Speaker: “Urban Quality”
Year: 15.06.2009
Speaker: “Tourism and Urbanization in Marmaris” Panel
Year: 16.05.2009. Speakers: Ersen Gürsel, Tavit Köletavitoğlu, Oktay Ekinci, Saim Nalkaya, Haydar Karabey
Visiting Lecturer: Mimar Sinan University School of Fine Arts, Department of Architecture
Years: 2001-2003, 2004-2005 ve 2007-2008
Consultant: Renovation of the Süreyya Opera
Client: Kadiköy Municipality
Attendee: İMP Meetings 4: The Historical Old Town and its Preservation
Year: 15.02.2007. Organiser: İMP. Attendees: Zeynep Enlil (Moderator), İclal Dinçer, Ersen Gürsel, Tavit Köletavitoğlu, Beral Madra
Speaker: “From traditional to contemporary: Wooden Architecture and Sustainability”
“Why Wood” Seminar. Year: 07.06.2007. Organiser: National Wood Union
Juror: Arkitera Architecture Client Awards
Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Can Çinici, Cem Ilhan, Dogan Tekeli, Haydar Karabey
Article: “Tophane Square Master Plan”
Authors: Ersen Gürsel, Sevgi Türkkan. Publication: Mimarist Magazine, Year: 7 Issue: 26 Winter 2007, Pg.92
Article: “Istanbul Against the Wall”
Book: Icon İstanbul, Pg.20-25, Om Press
Article: “From Movie Theatre to Opera: Surreyya”
Book: Kadıköy Municipality Süreyya Opera, Pg.28-53 October 2007, Istanbul. Authors: Ersen Gürsel, Murat Katoğlu, Işık Aydemir. Editor: İdil Erkol
Juror: Istanbul Ports
S.O.S – Competition for Architecture Students. Organiser: Istanbul union of independent Architects. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Cem Ilhan, Dogan Hasol, Emre Arolat, Haydar Karabey
Article: “A Material from today to tomorrow”
Publication: New Architect Magazine, December 2006, Issue: 44, Pg.15
Article: “Living the water city Istanbul”
Publication: Kızılcık Magazine, May-June 2006, Issue: 27, pg.82-87
Speaker: Architecture Competitions As A Motive For Building
Year: 24.02.2005. Organiser: İSMD. Other Guests: Hasan Özbay, Boran Ekinci, Hasan Şener, Oğuz Özer, Bülent Tarım. Görüş-Yorum: Cafer Bozkurt, Emre Aysu, Ersen Gürsel
Opening Speaker: “Why will Turkish Architecture be drawn to Wood?”
Year: 01.09.2005. Speaker: Erol Karacabeyli (FORINTEK). Organiser: National Wood Union, Yapı Endüstri Center
Council Member and Moderator: “Urban Planning and Architecture”
17th International Architecture and Life Congress. Year: 21.05.2005. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects in Bursa. Council Members: Bora Akçay, Aydan Balamir, Ersen Gürsel, Güngör Kaftancı, Haydar Karabey, Aslı Özbay and Murat Taş
Workshop Director: “The Fall of the City”
Mimarlık Haftası Mimarlık ve Kent Şenliği-I: “Kentler, Kıyılar...”. Year: 03.10.2005. Architecture and the City Week: “City and the Sea”. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects in Istanbul, Yildiz Techinal University Faculty of Architecture. Other Directors: Deniz İncedayı, Ayşen Ciravoğlu, Haydar Karabey
Moderator: “Wood 2005 Seminar"
3. İstanbul Ahşap Ürünler, Teknikerler, Sistem ve Donatımlar Fuarı. Year: 26.02.2005. Organiser: National Wood Union. Speakers: Atilla Yücel, Cem Yücel, Nevzat Sayın, Şevki PEKİN, Berin F.Gür
Book: “Istanbul Again!”
UIA 2005 XXII World Architecture Congress Catalog. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects in Istanbul
Article: “What do we have left in mind from the 21st century?”
Publication: Kızılcık Magazine, October-November 2005, Issue: 25, pg.74-76
Speaker: Architects Discuss: "The Art of Building"
Year: 01.04.2004. Organiser: Yapı-Endüstri Center. Other Guests: Cengiz Bektaş, Cafer Bozkurt, Han Tümertekin
Speaker: “Early works of Masters”
Year: 06.10.2004
Attendee: Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbas Meets the Architects of Moda
Year: 12.07.2004. Topic: “About the Moda Drive”. Other Attendees: Bülent Özer, Zekai Görgülü, Işık Aydemir, Aykut Köksal
Juror: UIA 2005 Istanbul Architecture Congress, Congress Hall Architecture Competition
Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Emre Arolat, Aydan Balamir, Bünyamin Derman, Haydar Karabey, Ahmet Özgüner, Selim Velioglu
Juror: Genç/Is/Lik 1: Architecture before age 40 "Charette"
Organiser: Arkitera. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Banu Binat, Günkut Akin, Aykut Köksal, Matthias Sauerbruch, Han Tümertekin, Atilla Yücel
Speaker: “How is the Formation of an Architect?”
Year: 18.04.2003
Manifesto: “What do we have left from the 20th Century?”
XIII.Yapı ve Yaşam 2001 Kongresi. Year: 11.06.2003. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects in Bursa
Juror: VIII. National Architecture Exhibition and Competition
Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Ayhan Usta, Nevzat Sayin, Ali Cengizkan, Nur Akin
Juror: Antalya Historical Karaalioglu Park Hall Competition
Organiser: Antalya Municipality. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, S. Güven Bilsel, Ahmet Cengiz Yildizci, Gül Asatekin, Selim Velioglu, Bülent Özkaya, Recep Esengil
Juror: Earthquake Resistant Buildings Competition
Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects and Engineers. Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Selim Velioglu, Yesim Turhan, Necati Inceoglu, Görün Arun, Cem Açikkol, Emre Aykar
Article: “Wood in Architecture”
Book: Wood in Modern and Traditional Architecture, pg.30-39, July 2001, Ankara
Speaker: “Architecture and Wood”
Wood in Traditional and Contemporary Architecture. Year: 15.12.2000. Organiser: Turkish Chamber of Architects and Engineers Union, Chamber of Architects in Bartın
Juror: VII. National Architecture Exhibition and Competition
Jurors: Ersen Gürsel, Murat Tabanlioglu, Utarit Izgi, Gül Asatekin, Gürhan Tümer