Imagining Marmara: Living in the City Workshops
Workshop | 21 August - 23 September
Organized by the Marmara Municipalities Union (MBB) as part of the Marmara Urban Forum (MARUF) and MARUF on the Go events, in collaboration with MBB and Arkki Turkey, supported by Kalebodur, and hosted by municipalities, the "Imagine Marmara: Urban Living Workshops" will be held with the aim of involving children aged 7 to 12 living in the Marmara Region in the creation of innovative solutions for an inclusive, resilient, nature-friendly, and livable city. Through workshops taking place in 11 cities within the Marmara Region, hosted by 11 municipalities, from August 21 to September 23, 2023, the goal is to provide children in the region with the skills to perceive their living environment from different perspectives and evaluate urban spaces from a design point of view.
Through workshops hosted by 11 different municipalities in the Marmara region, taking place from August 21 to September 23, children will construct three-dimensional models of ideas that will contribute to creating beautiful, sustainable, and inclusive cities of the future. After contemplating topics like new technologies, sustainability, integration, renewal, and recycling, children will engage in design-focused thinking processes that emphasize drawing and model-making using manual skills. They will individually design selected functions (residence, parks, offices, hospital, etc.) for a fictional city. In the final phase of the workshop, children will share the parts of the city they've built with their friends, combining all the pieces to create the city of the future.
The workshop's objectives include cultivating awareness in children about urban and built environment consciousness through sustainable and inclusive approaches, fostering an understanding of perceiving living spaces and surroundings from a design perspective, and enabling children to express their ideas using two-dimensional and three-dimensional representation methods.
Following the workshops, the ideas and designs of children for the cities of the future will be compiled into a report, which will be exhibited as part of MARUF23.
Date: August 21 - September 23, 2023
Event Language: Turkish