Event Program
1 October Wednesday
10:00 -
11:30
Opening Session & Welcoming Performance | On the Shore of All Possibilities
V1-MARUF Hall
12:00 -
13:00
Urban Sketching 101
C9-Open Urban Atelier
'Meme-tivism' for Urban Justice
C8-Urban Atelier 2
MMU General Assembly
V1-MARUF Hall
Good Practice Showcase: Resilient Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
Democracy Re-Discovered: Deliberate, Don't Degenerate
D1-Room 1
Library Talks: What Does It Take to Create a Building, a Neighborhood, a City…
C11-Creative Stage
Colours of Economy: Crises and Possibilities
C5-Room 5
Local Governments Meet International City Networks
D6-Room of Possibilities
12:00 -
19:00
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
Meme Station
C15-Collective Work
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&Exhibition
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
14:00 -
14:30
How to Be a Facilitator?
D6-Room of Possibilities
14:00 -
15:00
Cities Under Fire: Solidarity Through Cinema
D2-Urban Cinema
Governing the City Together Beyond Bureaucracy
C4-Room 4
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 1
C1-Special Hall
Urban Wellbeing: Right or Privilige?
V1-MARUF Hall
Resilient Local Governance in Wartime: Reform, Decentralization, and Reconstruction in Ukraine
C5-Room 5
Elephant in the Room: Urban Poverty
D3-Room 2
Projects Meet Funds
V3-Networking 2
Resilience in Action: Local Preparedness for Environmental Challenges
D1-Room 1
Start-up Showcase
S6-Showcase Stage
14:30 -
15:00
Circle of Possibilities for Facilitators
D6-Room of Possibilities
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 -
17:00
Days of Fire, Love and Anarchy: The Turkish Sinematek and Onat Kutlar
D2-Urban Cinema
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 2
C1-Special Hall
Resilience and Beyond: Gathering for Disaster Management
V2-Networking 1
Barometer: Data-Driven Urban Governance
V1-MARUF Hall
Marmara Region Spatial Strategies Coordination Meeting
C10-Roundtable
15:50 -
16:10
How to Stay Whole While Driving Change?
D6-Room of Possibilities
16:00 -
17:00
The Modern Prometheus: Locating the Watts and Whos of Energy
C6-Room 6
Rights on Sale: Housing
D1-Room 1
16:10 -
17:00
Circle of Possibilities for Balance
D6-Room of Possibilities
16:20 -
17:00
Library Talks: 'On the Field'
C11-Creative Stage
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
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Peer Learning & Twinning Programs for Local Governments
C3-Room 3
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
International Urban Events in Dialogue
D6-Room of Possibilities
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
Smart Cities and Innovation: University–Local Government Gathering
V3-Networking 2
10:00 -
19:00
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&Exhibition
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
Meme Station
C15-Collective Work
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
11:30 -
11:50
How to Be an Urban Change-Maker?
D6-Room of Possibilities
11:30 -
12:00
Urban Basics: Right to Time
D3-Room 2
Urban Basics: Digital Inequalities
V1-MARUF Hall
11:30 -
13:00
Local Governments Associating: Democracy, Diplomacy, Solidarity
C10-Roundtable
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Best Practices and Insights from THE:PLACE Program
C4-Room 4
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 3
C1-Special Hall
11:50 -
12:10
How to Ignite and Scale Up Change?
D6-Room of Possibilities
12:00 -
13:00
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Time Use Policies at the Local Level
D3-Room 2
Before AI, After AI
V1-MARUF Hall
12:10 -
13:00
Circle of Possibilities for Change
D6-Room of Possibilities
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
Project Showcase: Co-livable Cities
S6-Showcase Stage
We Only Live Once: Improving Quality of Life in Cities
D3-Room 2
MARUF x Forum of Women Mayors in South-East Europe | Session 4
C1-Special Hall
The Golden Jubilee of MMU: The Lost & Found of Urban Services
C5-Room 5
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
The Shores are Ours! Yet Who are We?
D6-Room of Possibilities
MARUF x CIVICSHIP FORUM | Re-Building Collaborations in Urban Space
C7-Urban Atelier 1
Mayors' Summit
V1-MARUF Hall
3 October Friday
10:00 -
10:20
How to Be an Urbanist in a Changing World?
D6-Room of Possibilities
10:00 -
11:00
Library Talks: 'The Quotidian, Quality of Life, and Locality' with İlhan Tekeli
C11-Creative Stage
MARUF on the Go Showcase
S6-Showcase Stage
Kreşendo x Roof Coliving | 'The Image of the City'
C9-Open Urban Atelier
Listening to Urban Space, Designing Sonic Refuge
C7-Urban Atelier 1
10:00 -
14:00
Would You Like to Talk About the City?
D8-Collective Work
Local Governments and Urbanism in the 100-Year Journey of the Republic of Türkiye
C13-Exhibition
Meme Station
C15-Collective Work
Seeing. Hearing. Narrating
C22-Collective Work 10
Uncover the Possible
S5-Collective Work
50 Years of 'Union'
S1-MMU Stand&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 | Discovery of Safe Walking Areas
Walkshop | Jane's Walk: Exploring Fikirtepe on Foot
Golden Horn Labor and Industry Collective Memory Route
Walkshop | Right to Urban Accessibility
