Dilara is a PhD candidate working on her NWO-funded project Heritage Generations: Home-making, Critical Nostalgia, and Futures of Turkish-Dutch Belonging, for which she was awarded the Mozaiek Grant. Dilara is also part of the AHO (At Home Otherwise) research team on diversifying heritage practices in the Netherlands and is also a filmmaker.

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Dilara is a PhD candidate working on her NWO-funded project Heritage Generations: Home-making, Critical Nostalgia, and Futures of Turkish-Dutch Belonging, for which she was awarded the Mozaiek Grant. Dilara is also part of the AHO (At Home Otherwise) research team on diversifying heritage practices in the Netherlands and is also a filmmaker.

Dilara obtained her BSc and MSc in Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology (Visual Ethnography) at Leiden University. During her studies, she has written a thesis about allotment gardens in the Netherlands and made Home Away From Home (2018), a film on immigration and homemaking in allotment gardens in the Netherlands. Alongside her studies, she pursued additional courses in Art History, driven by an interest in how art and representation intersect with migration and heritage, further enriching her interdisciplinary approach. She collaborated with the At Home Otherwise research team to analyze diversity and home-making practices on the Turkish-Dutch allotment gardens which has led to her latest film work Home in the Garden (2025) and is still part of this research team. This trajectory led her to embark on her PhD project Heritage Generations after being awarded the  NWO Mozaïek grant, in which she explores the ways heritage is transformed, contested, and reinterpreted (outside of institutional settings), to challenge dominant narratives that often overlook marginalized communities and their everyday practices.