Collective Works
Weaveing the New With Waste
This collective work aims to highlight the value of materials often labeled as waste and showcase opportunities for their reuse. Using discarded textile materials, the project will explore themes of sustainability, participation, and co-production, allowing participants to work with both their own brought-in waste materials and those provided by the artist.
Moderator: Fırat Neziroğlu
Partner: Çöpüne Sahip Çık Vakfı
Start: 1 October 2025 11:30
Location: Social Hub, S4
Meme Station
At the MARUF Meme-Station, participants can create memes reflecting their thoughts on the city or their MARUF25 experiences and pin them to the “Caught in MARUF’s Net” board by the waterfront. Share your humor and ideas, and let your voice become part of a visual dialogue!
Moderators: Sıla Kartal Al, Efe Kağan Yurt, Mustafa Gökberk Tektek.
Partner: Feminist Design
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Creative Hub, C15
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
Within the scope of MARUF on the Go, participants who have explored techniques for capturing the city and transforming urban experiences into digital narratives through online sessions will bring these experiences to life at MARUF25 through a process of recording MARUF’s images and sounds and producing digital stories. The digital narratives, created using text, audio, and video, will contribute to MARUF’s digital memory through careful editing. Participants will engage in an ongoing process of capture and creation throughout MARUF, culminating in a unique MARUF narrative produced by each participant.
Moderator: Gülen Saygı
Partner: İzmir Film Lab
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Creative Hub, C21
Collective City
This open workshop, where participants can join at any time, invites people of all ages to imagine the coastal city they wish to live in and create its model. By drawing attention to the environmental challenges facing the Marmara Sea and the rapid urbanization in the Marmara Region, it encourages creative ideas for sustainable coastal designs. The three-dimensional models produced using waste materials during the workshop will be displayed on a map of the Golden Horn.
Partner: Arkki
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Vision Hub, V5
Collective Circle
Inspired by the core themes of MARUF25, the Collective Circle invites participants to collectively shape just, resilient, inclusive, and cohabitable cities. The answers etched onto the chosen modules come together to form a sculpture of togetherness, symbolizing shared dreams and growing continuously.
Partner: Yereliz
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Dialogue Hub, D4
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
In this placemaking activity, designed to understand changing coastlines and develop new visions for the future, participants will create three-dimensional symbolic sculptures using physical objects. While materializing the current state and potential futures, they will examine the system from different perspectives, exploring their feelings, facts, assumptions, and intentions. Finally, the sculptures will be reorganized based on the insights gained, and key points of transformation along the coastlines will be assessed.
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Shore- 3
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
The “Would You Like to Talk About the City?” corner is an interactive space at MARUF25 that invites participants to engage in short yet meaningful conversations. Here, participants will not only listen but also speak, think, and contribute as active agents, sharing a collective experience to explore cities and exchange ideas together.
Moderators: Elif Menderes, Gülçin Sinav
Partner: Things We Need to Talk About
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Dialogue Hub, D8
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Throughout MARUF25, participants will share what they have gathered in their Deep Dive Diaries through objects, words, and images within this living network. Continuously nurtured with texts, drawings, and objects, the network will grow richer with contributions from both participants and volunteers. Emerging along the shore, it will weave these experiences and contributions into a collective, dynamic body of knowledge.
Partner: Yereliz
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Shore- 2
Uncover the Possible
Focusing on possibilities, this collective work offers participants an interactive experience to explore the different layers of the city. As these layers overlap, the fragility and transformative power of knowledge emerge, reshaping urban realities. By bringing all the pieces together, urban dwellers are invited to question the contrast between what is visible and what remains unseen.
Curators:
- Emre Güzel - Roof Coliving
- Esra Özgür - Dijital Esenlik
- Gülin Çavuş - Yapay Gündem
- İpek Lalin Tunç - Roof Coliving
Start: 1 October 2025 12:00
Location: Social Hub, S5
