Event Program
1 October Wednesday
10:00 -
11:30
Opening Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities
V1-MARUF Hall
11:30 -
19:00
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4-Collective Work
12:00 -
13:00
The Role of Municipalities in National Climate Targets
C10-Roundtable
Library Talks: What Does It Take to Create a Building, a Neighborhood, a City…
C11-Creative Stage
Creative Industries as a Strategic Area for Development
C3-Room 3
'Meme-tivism' for Urban Justice
C8-Urban Atelier 2
Urban Sketching 101
C9-Open Urban Atelier
Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate
D1-Room 1
Imagining & Resisting Through Cinema: A Selection of Films
D2-Urban Cinema
Cities at War Times: Serving While Surviving
D3-Room 2
Local Governments Meet International City Networks
D6-Room of Possibilities
Good Practice Showcase: Resilient Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
MMU General Assembly
V1-MARUF Hall
Next Station: Sustainable Transportation
V3-Networking 2
12:00 -
19:00
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14-Exhibition
Meme Station
C15-Collective Work
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
C19-Exhibition
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7-Exhibition
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&Exhibition
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3-Collective Work
The Story of My Coastal City
V4-Exhibition
14:00 -
14:30
How to Be a Facilitator?
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
15:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 1
C1-Special Hall
Resilience and Beyond: Mayors & AFAD Meeting
C10-Roundtable
Cities that Listen, Cities that Lead: Stories from Palestine’s Local Frontlines
C3-Room 3
Governing the City Together Beyond Bureaucracy
C4-Room 4
Resilient Local Governance in Wartime: Reform, Decentralization, and Reconstruction in Ukraine
C5-Room 5
From Data to Policy: Child-Focused Local Governance
C6-Room 6
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Yaşar Kemal’s Novel 'The Sea-Crossed Fisherman'
C7-Urban Atelier 1
How Can Tech & AI Shape Cities?
C8-Urban Atelier 2
Resilience in Action: Local Preparedness for Environmental Challenges
D1-Room 1
14:30 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Facilitators
D6-Room of Possibilities
15:00 -
15:20
Exhibition Break | The Story of My Coastal City Launch
V4-Exhibition
Exhibition Break | Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage Launch
D7-Exhibition
15:00 -
15:30
Metropolitan Planning and Finance for Adequate Housing: Expert Group Meeting Kick-Off
D1-Room 1
15:30 -
15:50
How to Build a Common Ground in a Polarized World?
D6-Room of Possibilities
15:30 -
16:00
Urban Basics: Right to Energy
C6-Room 6
Challenges and Opportunities in Housing Management
D1-Room 1
15:30 -
16:10
Library Talks: RIBA Climate Guide
C11-Creative Stage
15:30 -
16:30
Crafting a Just City Together with Culture and Art
D3-Room 2
15:30 -
17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 2
C1-Special Hall
Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting
C10-Roundtable
From Seed to Structure
C5-Room 5
Istanbul on Film: Imagining the City, Envisioning Its Future
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Days of Fire, Love and Anarchy: The Turkish Sinematek and Onat Kutlar
D2-Urban Cinema
Play Marmara 'Sea' | Mayors
S3-Play Marmara
Project Showcase: Resilient Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
Barometer: Data-Driven Urban Governance
V1-MARUF Hall
Resilience and Beyond: Gathering for Disaster Management
V2-Networking 1
Launch of Climate-Neutral Cities Network
V3-Networking 2
16:00 -
17:00
The Modern Prometheus: Locating the Watts and Whos of Energy
C6-Room 6
Rights on Sale: Housing
D1-Room 1
16:30 -
17:00
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving: Places That Bring Us Together
D3-Room 2
17:30 -
18:00
Kreşendo Live Performance
Shore-1-Shore Stage
17:30 -
18:30
Urban Library X Urban Cinema Special Screening & Director’s Talk: Manguel's Journey to Türkiye: In the Footsteps of Tanpınar
D2-Urban Cinema
18:30 -
18:45
Director’s Talk: 'Manguel’s Journey to Türkiye: In the Footsteps of Tanpınar' with Melik Külekci
D2-Urban Cinema
2 October Thursday
10:00 -
11:00
Library Talks: 'Legends of the Fish' with Faruk Duman
C11-Creative Stage
Digital Future: From Global Agenda to Local Action
C4-Room 4
Alternative Pathways in Urban Transformation: Housing Cooperatives
C5-Room 5
Reimagining Local Governance: Social Justice and Public Politics
C6-Room 6
En-ROADS Climate Action Workshop – A Collaborative Climate Scenario Experience for the 1.5°C Goal
C8-Urban Atelier 2
Climate101.5°: Tipping Point of the Future
D1-Room 1
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Smart Financing for Equality: Advancing Fair and Inclusive Opportunities
D3-Room 2
PhD Showcase
S6-Showcase Stage
Street Reclaimers Meetup
Shore-1-Shore Stage
Disaster Amnesia: Why We Never Learn?
V1-MARUF Hall
Smart Cities and Innovation: University–Local Government Gathering
V3-Networking 2
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments
C3-Room 3
10:00 -
19:00
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14-Exhibition
Meme Station
C15-Collective Work
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
C19-Exhibition
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7-Exhibition
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&Exhibition
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4-Collective Work
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3-Collective Work
The Story of My Coastal City
V4-Exhibition
10:30 -
13:00
Komm mit mir in das Cinema – Die Gregors
D2-Urban Cinema
11:30 -
11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?
D6-Room of Possibilities
11:30 -
12:00
Library Talks: The Car That Wanted to Be a Bike
C11-Creative Stage
Greening the Grey: Cities in Transition
D1-Room 1
Urban Basics: Digital Inequalities
V1-MARUF Hall
11:30 -
13:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 3
C1-Special Hall
Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity
C10-Roundtable
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Best Practices and Insights from THE:PLACE Program
C4-Room 4
Shifting Grounds: Agents of Change for Just Transition
C5-Room 5
Nature-Based Solutions for Climate-Resilient Policies
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Co-creating Sustainable Urban Environments: An AR / VR Experience
C9-Open Urban Atelier
Play Marmara 'Sea' | Experts
S3-Play Marmara
Good Practice Showcase: Just Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
Dialogue for Energy Poverty
V3-Networking 2
11:50 -
12:10
How to Ignite and Scale Up Change?
D6-Room of Possibilities
12:00 -
13:00
Marmarathon: 'Two Little Urbanites' Grand Finale
C11-Creative Stage
Learn from Nature's Wisdom to Shape the City
D1-Room 1
13:15 -
13:45
Half Break: Solo Jazz Dance
S6-Showcase Stage
14:00 -
14:20
How to Make Change in the City Happen?
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
15:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 4
C1-Special Hall
Key Aspects of Metropolitan Planning to Promote Adequate Housing
C10-Roundtable
Writing the City While Drawing / Drawing the City While Writing
C11-Creative Stage
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-thinking Civil Society for Urban Partnerships
C4-Room 4
Citizen Science Methods for Tackling Urban Heat
C9-Open Urban Atelier
Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater
D2-Urban Cinema
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities
D3-Room 2
Play Marmara 'Sea' | Participants
S3-Play Marmara
Project Showcase: Co-livable Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
City of Cars: Are We Moving Only Drivers?
V1-MARUF Hall
Perspectives on Planning: Strategic, Participatory, and Innovative Horizons in Bursa
V3-Networking 2
Between Two Lagoons
V2-Networking 1
14:20 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Opportunites
D6-Room of Possibilities
15:30 -
16:00
Urban Basics: Right to Water
D3-Room 2
15:30 -
16:15
Cinema Cities, Cinematheques, and Community Cinemas
D2-Urban Cinema
15:30 -
17:00
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 5
C1-Special Hall
Libraries as Public Space
C11-Creative Stage
Planning First, What is Next?
C6-Room 6
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-Building Collaborations in Urban Space
C7-Urban Atelier 1
LEGO® x Serious Play® | The Creativity Yard
C8-Urban Atelier 2
The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?
D6-Room of Possibilities
Mayors' Summit
V1-MARUF Hall
At the Heart of Creativity: City and Culture Network Gathering
V2-Networking 1
16:00 -
17:00
Population Dynamics: People Move, Policy Follows
C5-Room 5
A Tale of Two Inland Seas: Marmara and Baltic
D3-Room 2
16:15 -
17:00
Film Culture in Türkiye: Past and Present
D2-Urban Cinema
16:30 -
17:00
Urban Basics: Right to Breathe
D1-Room 1
19:00 -
19:30
Urban Rythm Concert: Peradi Ensemble
Shore-1-Shore Stage
3 October Friday
10:00 -
11:00
Local Policies in Preventing Irregular Migration and Social Cohesion After Voluntary Return
C1-Special Hall
İNŞA x CapaCITIES 2.0: High-Level Roundtable for Climate-Neutral Cities
C10-Roundtable
Library Talks: 'The Quotidian, Quality of Life, and Locality' with İlhan Tekeli
C11-Creative Stage
Common Use Facilites: A Model for Inclusive Local Economic Development and Shared Futures
C4-Room 4
Natural Disaster-prone Historic Metropolitan Environment
C5-Room 5
Listening to Urban Space, Designing Sonic Refuge
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Marianne Brooker's 'Intervals'
C8-Urban Atelier 2
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | 'The Image of the City'
C9-Open Urban Atelier
MARUF on the Go Showcase
S6-Showcase Stage
Knowledge and History: How Water Shaped Our Cities
V3-Networking 2
10:00 -
14:00
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
In the Footsteps of Two Little Urbanites: New Stories
C14-Exhibition
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
Drawings in the Footsteps of Heritage
D7-Exhibition
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&Exhibition
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4-Collective Work
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3-Collective Work
The Story of My Coastal City
V4-Exhibition
11:30 -
12:30
Closing Session | In Pursuit of New Possibilities
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
17:00
18th Istanbul Biennial: Galata Greek School and Zihni Han
Istanbul Modern: Floating Islands Exhibition
City Panels as the Intersection of Architecture and Art: Istanbul Textile Traders’ Market
City Panels as the Intersection of Architecture and Art: Kadıköy
Grand Bazaar and Hans of Historic Peninsula
Historical Traces, Vibrant Streets: Cibali-Fener-Balat
Apartments, Hans and Tales: Galata-Pera-Beyoğlu
The Roof of the Grand Bazaar and Han’s
Walkshop | O'film Route: In the Footsteps of Muhsin Bey
