Event Program
Streams
How is it possible to have a city that enables co-living?
How is it possible to have a fair city?
How is it possible to have a resilient city?
How is it possible to have a caring city?
Modes
Minds-On
Hands-On
Senses-On
Types of Event
Circle of Possibilities
Closed Meeting
Closing
Collective Work
Discovery Meeting
Discussion
Exhibition
How To-ol
Local in Action
Networking
Opening
Play Marmara
Quick Take
Showcase
Side Event
Urban Atelier
Urban Basics
Urban Cinema
Urban Library
Urban Route
Urban Ryhthm
Urban Talk
Venues
D1
D2
D3
D4
D5
D6
D7
D8
S1
S2
S3
S4
S5
S6
S7
S8
V1
V2
V3
V4
V5
V6
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
C9
C10
C11
C12
C13
C14
C15
C16
C17
C18
Shore-1
Shore-2
Shore-3
1 October Wednesday
10:00 -
11:30
Openning Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities
V1
11:30 -
19:00
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4
12:00 -
13:00
Library Talks: What Does It Take to Create a Building, a Neighborhood, a City…
C11
Creative Industries as a Strategic Area for Development
C3
Social Mapping: Towards Evidence-Based Local Social Inclusion
C4
Urban Encounters: Youth Meet-Up
C7
"Meme-tivism" for Urban Justice
C8
Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate
D1
Imagining & Resisting Through Cinema: A Selection of Films
- Sarajevo Film Festival Film, Johan van der Keuken, 1993, 14'
- Letter from Beirut, Jocelyn Saab, 1978, 52’
D2
Cities at War Times: Serving While Surviving
D3
Local Governments Meet International City Networks
D6
Good Practise Showcase: Resilient Cities
S6
Would You Mind If We Swim? On Rebuilding Istanbul’s Coastal Culture
Shore-1
12:00 -
19:00
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3
14:00 -
14:30
How to Be a Facilitator?
D6
14:00 -
15:00
Speak Up: Voices of Urban Publishers
C11
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Yaşar Kemal’s Novel "Deniz Küstü"
C7
How Can Tech & AI Shape Cities?
C8
Cities Under Fire: Solidarity Through Cinema
D2
Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty
D3
Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?
V1
14:30 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Facilitators
D6
15:30 -
15:50
How to Build a Common Ground in a Polarized World?
D6
15:30 -
16:30
Crafting a Just City Together with Culture and Art
D3
15:30 -
17:00
Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting
C10
lmplementation of the SDGs in Elevating the Community Development
C3
Istanbul on Film: Imagining the City, Envisioning Its Future
C7
Let's Talk Accessibility
C8
Play in the City | Introduction to Playwork
C9
Days Of Fire, Love And Anarchy: The Turkish Sinematek and Onat Kutlar, Önder Esmer, 2023, 76’
D2
15:50 -
16:10
How to Stay Whole While Driving Change?
D6
16:10 -
17:00
Circle of Possibilities for Balance
D6
16:20 -
17:00
Library Talks: 'On the Field'
C11
16:30 -
17:00
Kreşendo & Roof Coliving: Places That Bring Us Together
D3
17:30 -
18:30
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | Places That Bring Us Together Meeting
V3
17:30 -
18:45
Alberto Manguel’s Journey to Turkey: In the Footsteps of Tanpınar
D2
19:00 -
19:30
Kreşendo Live Performance
Shore-1
2 October Thursday
10:00 -
11:00
Library Talks: 'Legends of the Fish' with Faruk Duman
C11
Collective Solutions for Local Development
C4
Alternative Pathways in Urban Transformation: Cooperatives and the Role of Municipalities
C5
Citizen Science Methods for Tackling Urban Heat
C9
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Smart Financing for Equality: Advancing Fair and Inclusive Opportunities
D3
International Urban Events in Dialogue
D6
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments
V3
10:00 -
19:00
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3
10:30 -
13:00
Komm mit mir in das Cinema – Die Gregors, Alice Agneskirchner, 2022, 155’
D2
11:30 -
11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?
D6
11:30 -
12:00
Library Talks: The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike
C11
11:30 -
13:00
Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity
C10
The Bench on the Shore: Sparking Social Interaction through Micro-Interventions
C3
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Best Practices and Insights from THE:PLACE Program
C4
11:50 -
12:10
How to Ignite and Scale Up Change?
D6
12:00 -
13:00
Marmarathon: 'Two Little Urbanites' Grand Finale
C11
12:10 -
13:00
Circle of Possibilities for Change
D6
12:30 -
13:00
Heritage: An Album of Birdsongs
C6
13:15 -
13:45
Half Break: Solo Jazz Dance
S6
14:00 -
14:20
How to Make Change in the City Happen?
D6
14:00 -
14:30
The Possibility of Co-Living through Commons and the Right to the City
C7
14:00 -
15:00
Writing the City While Drawing / Drawing the City While Writing
C11
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-thinking Civil Society for Urban Partnerships
C4
The Golden Jubilee of MMU: The Lost & Found of Urban Services
C5
Welcome to the Age of Aging Cities
C6
The Past is Digital: New Approaches Reshaping Cultural Heritage
D1
Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater, Emek Bizim İstanbul Bizim İnisiyatifi, 2016, 48'
D2
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities
D3
Project Showcase: Co-livable Cities
S6
14:20 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Opportunites
D6
15:30 -
16:15
Cinema Cities, Cinematheques, and Community Cinemas
D2
15:30 -
17:00
Libraries as Public Space
C11
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-Building Collaborations in Urban Space
C7
Good Public Space in İstanbul
C9
The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?
D6
Good Practice Showcase: Caring Cities
S6
About Trust, Conversation, Solidarity in the City
Shore-1
Gathering for Culture, Arts & Creative Economy
V3
16:00 -
17:00
Population Dynamics: People Move, Policy Follows
C5
16:15 -
17:00
Film Culture in Türkiye: Past and Present
D2
17:30 -
18:30
Urban Talk: Tracing Urban Memory
Shore-1
18:30 -
19:00
Urban Rythm Concert: Peradi Ensemble
Shore-1
3 October Friday
10:00 -
10:20
How to Be an Urbanist in a Changing World?
D6
10:00 -
11:00
Local Policies in Preventing Irregular Migration and Social Cohesion After Voluntary Return
C1
Library Talks: The Quotidian, Quality of Life, and Locality with İlhan Tekeli
C11
Just My Two Cents on my City: Through the Lens of Jane Jacobs
C3
Common Use Facilites: A Model for Inclusive Local Economic Development and Shared Futures
C4
Listening to Urban Space, Designing Sonic Refuge
C7
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Marianne Brooker's "Intervals"
C8
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | "The Image of the City"
C9
From Consumption to Conservation: Rethinking Tourism in Heritage Sites
D3
MARUF on the Go Showcase
S6
10:00 -
14:00
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3
10:20 -
11:00
Circle of Possibilities for Urbanists
D6
11:30 -
12:30
Closing Session | In Pursuit of New Possibilities
Shore-1
14:00 -
17:00
18th Istanbul Biennial: Galata Greek School and Zihni Han
Istanbul Modern: Floating Islands Exhibition
The Seventh Hill of Istanbul: Pashas and Saints
Walkshop | Everyday Acoustic Palimpsests of Galata
City Panels as the Intersection of Architecture and Art: Kadıköy
Grand Bazaar and Hans of Historic Peninsula
Historical Traces, Vibrant Streets: Cibali-Fener-Balat
Apartments, Hans and Tales: Galata-Pera-Beyoğlu
The Roof of the Grand Bazaar and Han’s
Walkshop | O'film Route: In the Footsteps of Muhsin Bey
Eyüpsultan Street Reclamation Project
Eyüpsultan Cultural Heritage
Walking Through Urban Memory