Event Program
1 October Wednesday
10:00 -
11:30
Opening Session | On the Shore of All Possibilities
V5
12:00 -
13:00
Urban Encounters: Youth Meet-Up
C7
Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities
C5
Social Mapping: Towards Evidence-Based Local Social Inclusion
C4
Memetivisim for Urban Justice
C8
The Role of Municipalities in National Climate Targets
C10
Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate
D1
Cities at War Times: Serving While Surviving
D3
Local Governments Meet International City Networks
D6
14:00 -
15:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Session 1
C1
From Data to Policy: Child-Focused Local Governance
C6
Resilient Local Governance in Wartime: Reform, Decentralization, and Reconstruction in Ukraine
C5
Hacking the Bureaucracy
C4
Street Fighters: A Game of Street Transformation via Negotiation
C9
Resilience and Beyond: Mayors & AFAD Meeting
C10
Localization of Human Rights
D1
Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?
D3
International Urban Events in Dialogue
D6
Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty
V5
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
Invisible Labor: Who Gives a Care?
D1
Urban Basics: Right to Time
V5
15:30 -
16:30
Crafting a Just City Together with Culture and Art
D3
15:30 -
17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Session 2
C1
Good Practice Showcase 1
S6
Play Marmara "Sea" | Mayors
S3
Istanbul on Film: Imagining the City, Envisioning Its Future
C7
From Seed to Structure
C5
Insisting on What is Possible: Data-Driven Urban Governance
C4
Play in the City | Introduction to Playwork
C9
Let's Talk Accessibility
C8
Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting
C10
Resilience and Beyond: Gathering for Disaster Management
V2
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
Caring Cities: Let the City Care
D1
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Time Use Policies at the Local Level
V5
16:10 -
17:00
Circle of Possibilities for Balance
D6
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
V3
2 October Thursday
10:00 -
11:00
Reimagining Local Governance: Social Justice and Public Politics
C6
Collective Solutions for Local Development
C4
Citizen Science Methods for Tackling Urban Heat
C9
Reintegration and International Cooperation: Local Solutions for Voluntary Returning Migrants
C10
Climate101.5°: Tipping Point of the Future
D1
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Smart Financing for Equality: Advancing Fair and Inclusive Opportunities
D3
How to Be a Facilitator?
D6
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments
V3
Street Reclaimers Meetup
Shore-1
Disaster Amnesia: Why We Never Learn
V5
11:30 -
11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?
D6
11:30 -
12:00
Greening the Grey: Cities in Transition
D1
Challenges and Opportunities in Housing Management
D3
11:30 -
13:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Session 4
C1
Good Practice Showcase 2
S6
Play Marmara "Sea" | Experts
S3
Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Policies
C7
Shifting Grounds: Agents of Change for Just Transition
C5
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Best Practices and Insights from THE:PLACE Program
C4
Good Public Space in İstanbul
C9
Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity
C10
Gathering for Culture, Arts & Creative Economy
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
Rights on Sale: Housing
D3
12:10 -
13:00
Circle of Possibilities for Change
D6
13:30 -
14:00
Half Break: Solo Jazz Dance
S6
14:00 -
14:30
The Possibility of Co-Living through Commons and the Right to the City
C7
14:00 -
15:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Session 5
C1
Play Marmara "Sea" | Participants
S3
Welcome to the Age of Aging Cities
C6
The Golden Jubilee of MMU: The Lost & Found of Urban Services
C5
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-thinking Civil Society for Urban Partnerships
C4
Cities that Shed Light on Children’s Imaginaires
C9
Play in the City: Designing Natural Play Areas and Playground Safety
C8
Key Aspects of Metropolitan Planning to Promote Adequate Housing
C10
The Past is Digital: New Approaches Reshaping Cultural Heritage
D1
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities
D3
How to Make Change in the City Happen?
D6
Gathering for Technology, Digitalization and AI
V3
City of Cars: Are We Moving Only Drivers?
V5
14:30 -
15:00
How Scientific Knowledge is Applied on the City
C7
15:30 -
16:00
Urban Basics: Right to Water
D3
Urban Basics: Digital Inequalities
V5
15:30 -
16:30
Little Urbanites: Growing with the City
D1
15:30 -
17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors | Session 6
C1
Good Practice Showcase 3
S6
Planning First, What is Next?
C6
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-Building Collaborations in Urban Space
C7
Is There Life After Disaster?
C4
LEGO® x Serious Play® | The Creativity Yard
C8
Metropolitan Financing for Large-Scale Housing Solutions
C10
The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?
D6
Sharing Innovative Ways of Construction
V3
Launch of Climate-Neutral Cities Network
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 -
11:00
MARUF on the Go Showcase
S6
Common Use Facilites: A Model for Inclusive Local Economic Development and Shared Futures
C6
Sound, Urban Space and Listening Practices
C7
Seeds and the City: Food Provision in Metropolises
C4
Just My Two Cents on my City: Through the Lens of Jane Jacobs
C3
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | "The Image of the City"
C9
High-Level Dialogue for Climate-Neutral Cities Network
C10
Architecture: Wall Building or Well Being?
D1
From Consumption to Conservation: Rethinking Tourism in Heritage Sites
D3
How to Be an Urbanist in a Changing World?
D6
Knowledge and History: How Water Shaped Our Cities
V3
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
V5
Istanbul Modern: Floating Islands Exhibition
V5
The Seventh Hill of Istanbul: Pashas and Saints
V5
Walkshop | Walking the Invisible Lines of Golden Horn: Fener-Balat-Ayvansaray
V5
Walkshop | Everyday Acoustic Palimpsests of Galata
V5
City Panels as the Intersection of Architecture and Art: Istanbul Textile Traders’ Market
V5
City Panels as the Intersection of Architecture and Art: Kadıköy
V5
Discovery of Safe Walking Areas
V5
Walkshop | Jane's Walk: Exploring Fikirtepe on Foot
V5
O'film Route: In the Footsteps of Muhsin Bey
V5
YTU Yıldız Technopark: IMEHub Project
V5
Eyüpsultan Street Reclamation Project
V5
Eyüpsultan Cultural Heritage
V5
