Event Program

1 October Wednesday

10:00 - 11:30
Openning Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities

V1

12:00 - 13:00
Good Practise Showcase: Resilient Cities

S6

"Meme-tivism" for Urban Justice

C8

Urban Sketching 101

C9

Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate

D1

Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities

C5

Local Governments Meet International City Networks

D6

MMU General Assembly

V1

Library Talks: What Does It Take to Create a Building, a Neighborhood, a City…

C11

12:00 - 19:00
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye

C13

Uncover the Possible

S5

Meme Station

C15

Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
50 Years of "Union"

S1

14:00 - 14:30
How to Be a Facilitator?

D6

14:00 - 15:00
Start-up Showcase

S6

Localization of Human Rights

D1

Cities Under Fire: Solidarity Through Cinema

D2

Resilient Local Governance in Wartime: Reform, Decentralization, and Reconstruction in Ukraine

C5

Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?

V1

Governing the City Together Beyond Bureaucracy

C4

Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty

D3

MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 1

C1

Projects Meet Funds

V3

14:30 - 15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Facilitators

D6

15:00 - 15:30
Metropolitan Planning and Finance for Adequate Housing: Expert Group Meeting Kick-Off

D1

15:30 - 15:50
How to Build a Common Ground in a Polarized World?

D6

15:30 - 16:00
Challenges and Opportunities in Housing Management

D1

Urban Basics: Right to Energy

C6

15:30 - 17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 2

C1

Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting

C10

Resilience and Beyond: Gathering for Disaster Management

V2

Barometer: Data-Driven Urban Governance

V1

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

16:00 - 17:00
Rights on Sale: Housing

D1

The Modern Prometheus: Locating the Watts and Whos of Energy

C6

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

19:00 - 19:30
Kreşendo Live Performance

Shore-1

2 October Thursday

10:00 - 11:00
PhD Showcase

S6

Reimagining Local Governance: Social Justice and Public Politics

C6

MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments

V3

MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Smart Financing for Equality: Advancing Fair and Inclusive Opportunities

D3

En-ROADS Climate Action Workshop – A Collaborative Climate Scenario Experience for the 1.5°C Goal

C8

Gathering for Technology, Digitalization and AI

V2

International Urban Events in Dialogue

D6

10:00 - 19:00
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye

C13

Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

Uncover the Possible

S5

50 Years of "Union"

S1

Meme Station

C15

Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
11:30 - 11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?

D6

11:30 - 12:00
Urban Basics: Digital Inequalities

V1

Urban Basics: Right to Time

D3

11:30 - 13:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 4

C1

MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Best Practices and Insights from THE:PLACE Program

C4

Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity

C10

11:50 - 12:10
How to Ignite and Scale Up Change?

D6

12:00 - 13:00
Before AI, After AI

V1

Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Time Use Policies at the Local Level

D3

12:10 - 13:00
Circle of Possibilities for Change

D6

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
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities

D3

Project Showcase: Co-livable Cities

S6

The Golden Jubilee of MMU: The Lost & Found of Urban Services

C5

MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 5

C1

14:20 - 15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Opportunites

D6

15:30 - 16:00
Urban Basics: Right to Water

D3

15:30 - 16:15
Cinema Cities, Cinematheques, and Community Cinemas

D2

15:30 - 17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 6

C1

The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?

D6

MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-Building Collaborations in Urban Space

C7

3 October Friday

10:00 - 10:20
How to Be an Urbanist in a Changing World?

D6

10:00 - 11:00
Library Talks: The Quotidian, Quality of Life, and Locality with İlhan Tekeli

C11

MARUF on the Go Showcase

S6

Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | "The Image of the City"

C9

Listening to Urban Space, Designing Sonic Refuge

C7

10:00 - 14:00
50 Years of "Union"

S1

Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye

C13

Meme Station

C15

Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
Would You Like to Talk About the City?

D8

Uncover the Possible

S5

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
Walkshop | Discovery of Safe Walking Areas
Walkshop | Jane's Walk: Exploring Fikirtepe on Foot
Golden Horn Labor and Industry Collective Memory Route
Walkshop | Right to Urban Accessibility