Event Program

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

The Data Has Spoken!

C6

Urban Encounters: Youth Meet-Up

C7

"Meme-tivism" for Urban Justice

C8

Urban Sketching 101

C9

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

MMU General Assembly

V1

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
Collective Circle

D4

Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage

D7

Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

50 Years of "Union"

S1

Uncover the Possible

S5

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

Start-up Showcase

S6

Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?

V1

Projects Meet Funds

V3

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

PhD Showcase

S6

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
Collective Circle

D4

Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage

D7

Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

50 Years of "Union"

S1

Weaveing the New With Waste

S4

Uncover the Possible

S5

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 - 16:00
Demography 101

C5

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
Collective Circle

D4

Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage

D7

Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

50 Years of "Union"

S1

Weaveing the New With Waste

S4

Uncover the Possible

S5

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