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
Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities
C5-Room 5
Urban Encounters: Youth Meet-Up
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate
D1-Room 1
Imagining & Resisting Through Cinema: A Selection of Films
D2-Urban Cinema
Would You Mind If We Swim? On Rebuilding Istanbul’s Coastal Culture
Shore-1-Shore Stage
Coding Tomorrow’s Cities: Robotics and VR for Children
V2-Networking 1
12:00 -
19:00
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18-Exhibition
Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
C19-Exhibition
Collective Circle
D4-Collective Work
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2-Collective Work
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3-Collective Work
The Story of My Coastal City
V4-Exhibition
13:30 -
13:50
Exhibition Break | Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles Launch
C18-Exhibition
14:00 -
14:30
How to Be a Facilitator?
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
15:00
Speak Up: Voices of Urban Publishers
C11-Creative Stage
Resilient Local Governance in Wartime: Reform, Decentralization, and Reconstruction in Ukraine
C5-Room 5
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Yaşar Kemal’s Novel 'The Sea-Crossed Fisherman'
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Cities Under Fire: Solidarity Through Cinema
D2-Urban Cinema
Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty
D3-Room 2
About Trust, Conversation, Solidarity in the City
Shore-1-Shore Stage
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
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
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
From Seed to Structure
C5-Room 5
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
15:50 -
16:10
How to Stay Whole While Driving Change?
D6-Room of Possibilities
16:00 -
17:00
Rights on Sale: Housing
D1-Room 1
16:10 -
17:00
Circle of Possibilities for Balance
D6-Room of Possibilities
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
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
Animal Cruelty: Rethinking Intersectionality Together
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Cities that Shed Light on Children’s Imaginaires
C9-Open Urban Atelier
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Smart Financing for Equality: Advancing Fair and Inclusive Opportunities
D3-Room 2
International Urban Events in Dialogue
D6-Room of Possibilities
Disaster Amnesia: Why We Never Learn?
V1-MARUF Hall
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments
C3-Room 3
10:00 -
19:00
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18-Exhibition
Natural Buildings for Healthy Living Spaces
C19-Exhibition
Collective Circle
D4-Collective Work
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4-Collective Work
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2-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
Greening the Grey: Cities in Transition
D1-Room 1
11:30 -
12:30
Animal Rights as a Public Right
C6-Room 6
11:30 -
13:00
The Bench on the Shore: Sparking Social Interaction through Micro-Interventions
C3-Room 3
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
Play Marmara 'Sea' | Experts
S3-Play Marmara
Personas on the Shore of Transformation
Shore-1-Shore 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
12:10 -
13:00
Circle of Possibilities for Change
D6-Room of Possibilities
12:30 -
13:00
Heritage: An Album of Birdsongs
C6-Room 6
14:00 -
14:20
How to Make Change in the City Happen?
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
14:30
The Possibility of Co-Living through Commons and the Right to the City
C7-Urban Atelier 1
14:00 -
15:00
Key Aspects of Metropolitan Planning to Promote Adequate Housing
C10-Roundtable
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-thinking Civil Society for Urban Partnerships
C4-Room 4
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities
D3-Room 2
Play Marmara 'Sea' | Participants
S3-Play Marmara
Between Two Lagoons
V2-Networking 1
14:20 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Opportunites
D6-Room of Possibilities
15:30 -
16:15
Cinema Cities, Cinematheques, and Community Cinemas
D2-Urban Cinema
15:30 -
17:00
Metropolitan Financing for Large-Scale Housing Solutions
C10-Roundtable
Libraries as Public Space
C11-Creative Stage
Is There Life After Disaster?
C4-Room 4
LEGO® x Serious Play® | The Creativity Yard
C8-Urban Atelier 2
The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?
D6-Room of Possibilities
Good Practice Showcase: Caring Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
Sharing Innovative Ways of Construction
V3-Networking 2
16:00 -
17:00
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
19:00 -
19:30
Urban Rythm Concert: Peradi Ensemble
Shore-1-Shore Stage
3 October Friday
10:00 -
10:20
How to Be an Urbanist in a Changing World?
D6-Room of Possibilities
10:00 -
11:00
Just My Two Cents on my City: Through the Lens of Jane Jacobs
C3-Room 3
Creative Reading Workshop with Çiğdem Odabaşı: On Marianne Brooker's 'Intervals'
C8-Urban Atelier 2
Architecture: Wall Building or Well-Being?
D1-Room 1
10:00 -
14:00
Possible with Wood!
C16-Exhibition
Woodlife Sweden
C17-Exhibition
Looking at Marmara from the Shore of All Possibles
C18-Exhibition
Collective Circle
D4-Collective Work
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
Weaveing the New With Waste
S4-Collective Work
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
Caught in MARUF’s Net
Shore-2-Collective Work
Water's Edge: A Placemaking Experiment
Shore-3-Collective Work
The Story of My Coastal City
V4-Exhibition
10:20 -
11:00
Circle of Possibilities for Urbanists
D6-Room of Possibilities
11:30 -
12:30
Closing Session | In Pursuit of New Possibilities
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
17:00
Walkshop | Walking the Invisible Lines of Golden Horn: Fener-Balat-Ayvansaray