Minds-On

This is the first step on the MARUF journey. Participants will learn about various topics of interest and engage in an intellectual exploration by listening to different perspectives and experiences. This mode provides the opportunity to analyze, compare, and discover the new ways of thinking.

This essence yet inspiring talks begin just before the circles of possibility for professionals who create creative and inclusive solutions and drive change in urban areas.

Short sessions for listening where speakers briefly share their knowledge, experience and vision on a specific topic.

Exploration of urban practices that create a positive impact on local, regional or global scales.

Presentations by expert speakers reminding us of our fundamental rights regarding the city.

Discussions around a table for experts to scrutinize theories, strategies, or potential solutions in a specific field.

Brief presentations on good practices, PhD dissertations, initiatives and projects that produce solutions to urban challenges.

PhD Showcase: PhD candidates who have passed the preliminary evaluation and are eligible to make a presentation compete by presenting their theses briefly and concisely in front of a jury.
Good Practice Showcase: Practitioners who have passed the preliminary evaluation and are entitled to make a presentation briefly and concisely present their applications implemented by local governments or in cooperation with local governments.
Start-up Showcase: Start-ups who have passed the preliminary evaluation and are entitled to make a presentation briefly and concisely present their innovative and creative works.
Project Showcase: Representatives of project teams who have passed the preliminary evaluation and are entitled to make a presentation, briefly and concisely present their projects.

Discussions about urban life with special guests.

Events Related to This Mode

Openning Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities

01 Oct 2025 10:00

Minds-On

How To-ol

Quick Take

Local in Action

Urban Basics

Discussion

Showcases

Urban Talk

Events Related to This Mode

Openning Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities

The Role of Municipalities in National Climate Targets

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

Creative Industries as a Strategic Area for Development

Social Mapping: Towards Evidence-Based Local Social Inclusion

Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities

The Data Has Spoken!

Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate

Cities at War Times: Serving While Surviving

Good Practice Showcase: Resilient Cities

Would You Mind If We Swim? On Rebuilding Istanbul’s Coastal Culture

MMU General Assembly

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

Resilience and Beyond: Mayors & AFAD Meeting

Speak Up: Voices of Urban Publishers

Cities that Listen, Cities that Lead: Stories from Palestine’s Local Frontlines

Governing the City Together Beyond Bureaucracy

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

From Data to Policy: Child-Focused Local Governance

Resilience in Action: Local Preparedness for Environmental Challenges

Cities Under Fire: Solidarity Through Cinema

Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty

Start-up Showcase

Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?

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

MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 2

Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting

Library Talks: RIBA Climate Guide

lmplementation of the SDGs in Elevating the Community Development

Invisible Labor: Who Gives a Care?

From Seed to Structure

Urban Basics: Right to Energy

Challenges and Opportunities in Housing Management

Crafting a Just City Together with Culture and Art

Project Showcase: Resilient Cities

Barometer: Data-Driven Urban Governance

Caring Cities

The Modern Prometheus: Locating the Watts and Whos of Energy

Rights on Sale: Housing

Library Talks: 'On the Field'

Kreşendo x Roof Coliving: Places That Bring Us Together

Director’s Talk: 'Manguel’s Journey to Türkiye: In the Footsteps of Tanpınar' with Melik Külekci

Library Talks: 'Legends of the Fish' with Faruk Duman

Collective Solutions for Local Development

Alternative Pathways in Urban Transformation: Housing Cooperatives

Reimagining Local Governance: Social Justice and Public Politics

Climate101.5°: Tipping Point of the Future

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

PhD Showcase

Disaster Amnesia: Why We Never Learn

MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 4

Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity

Library Talks: The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike

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

Shifting Grounds: Agents of Change for Just Transition

Animal Rights as a Public Right

Greening the Grey: Cities in Transition

Urban Basics: Right to Time

How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?

Good Practice Showcase: Just Cities

Urban Basics: Digital Inequalities

How to Ignite and Scale Up Change?

Marmarathon: 'Two Little Urbanites' Grand Finale

Learn from Nature's Wisdom to Shape the City

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

Before AI, After AI

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

Key Aspects of Metropolitan Planning to Promote Adequate Housing

Writing the City While Drawing / Drawing the City While Writing

MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-thinking Civil Society for Urban Partnerships

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