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
The Role of Municipalities in National Climate Targets

C10

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

C11

Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities

C5

"Meme-tivism" for Urban Justice

C8

Urban Sketching 101

C9

Cities at War Times: Serving While Surviving

D3

Local Governments Meet International City Networks

D6

MMU General Assembly

V1

Next Station: Sustainable Transportation

V3

12:00 - 19:00
Possible with Wood!

C16

Woodlife Sweden

C17

Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
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

The Story of My Coastal City

V4

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

D6

14:00 - 15:00
Resilience and Beyond: Mayors & AFAD Meeting

C10

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

C5

From Data to Policy: Child-Focused Local Governance

C6

Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Yaşar Kemal’s Novel "Deniz Küstü"

C7

How Can Tech & AI Shape Cities?

C8

Street Fighters: A Game of Street Transformation via Negotiation

C9

Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?

V1

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
Urban Basics: Right to Energy

C6

Challenges and Opportunities in Housing Management

D1

15:30 - 16:10
Library Talks: Riba Climate Guide

C11

15:30 - 17:00
Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting

C10

From Seed to Structure

C5

Project Showcase: Resilient Cities

S6

Resilience and Beyond: Gathering for Disaster Management

V2

Launch of Climate-Neutral Cities Network

V3

15:50 - 16:10
How to Stay Whole While Driving Change?

D6

16:00 - 17:00
The Modern Prometheus: Locating the Watts and Whos of Energy

C6

Rights on Sale: Housing

D1

16:10 - 17:00
Circle of Possibilities for Balance

D6

19:00 - 19:30
Kreşendo Live Performance

Shore-1

2 October Thursday

10:00 - 11:00
Collective Solutions for Local Development

C4

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

C8

Citizen Science Methods for Tackling Urban Heat

C9

Climate101.5°: Tipping Point of the Future

D1

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

Disaster Amnesia: Why We Never Learn

V1

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

V3

10:00 - 19:00
Possible with Wood!

C16

Woodlife Sweden

C17

Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
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

The Story of My Coastal City

V4

11:30 - 11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?

D6

11:30 - 12:00
Greening the Grey: Cities in Transition

D1

11:30 - 13:00
Shifting Grounds: Agents of Change for Just Transition

C5

Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Policies

C7

Istanbul, How Do You Move?

C8

Co-creating Sustainable Urban Environments: An AR / VR Experience

C9

Good Practice Showcase: Just Cities

S6

Dialogue for Energy Poverty

V3

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

D6

12:00 - 13:00
Learn from Nature's Wisdom to Shape the City

D1

Before AI, After AI

V1

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 - 15:00
Key Aspects of Metropolitan Planning to Promote Adequate Housing

C10

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

C5

Play in the City: Designing Natural Play Areas and Playground Safety

C8

We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities

D3

City of Cars: Are We Moving Only Drivers?

V1

Perspectives on Planning: Strategic, Participatory, and Innovative Horizons in Bursa

V3

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

D6

14:30 - 15:00
How Scientific Knowledge is Applied on the City

C7

15:30 - 16:00
Demography 101

C5

Urban Basics: Right to Water

D3

15:30 - 17:00
Metropolitan Financing for Large-Scale Housing Solutions

C10

Is There Life After Disaster?

C4

Planning First, What is Next?

C6

LEGO® x Serious Play® | The Creativity Yard

C8

Good Practice Showcase: Caring Cities

S6

Sharing Innovative Ways of Construction

V2

16:00 - 17:00
Population Dynamics: People Move, Policy Follows

C5

A Tale of Two Inland Seas: Marmara and Baltic

D3

16:30 - 17:00
Urban Basics: Right to Breathe

D1

3 October Friday

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

D6

10:00 - 11:00
İNŞA x CapaCITIES 2.0: High-Level Roundtable for Climate-Neutral Cities

C10

Library Talks: The Quotidian, Quality of Life, and Locality with İlhan Tekeli

C11

Common Use Facilites: A Model for Inclusive Local Economic Development and Shared Futures

C4

Natural Disaster-prone Historic Metropolitan Environment

C5

Seeds and the City: Food Provision in Metropolises

C6

From Consumption to Conservation: Rethinking Tourism in Heritage Sites

D3

MARUF on the Go Showcase

S6

Knowledge and History: How Water Shaped Our Cities

V3

10:00 - 14:00
Possible with Wood!

C16

Woodlife Sweden

C17

Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
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

The Story of My Coastal City

V4

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
YTU Yıldız Technopark: IMEHub Project