Workshops*

ISTANBUL AS A PALIMPSEST CITY IN THE ANTHROPOCENE: REIMAGINING URBAN FUTURES

Within the framework of the main theme, “Multi-Ecological Perspectives on Palimpsest Cities in the Anthropocene,” the IAPS-CS Network Culture and Space Design Workshop 5 invites participants to produce experiential works that focus on Istanbul and the imagination of its future through diverse modes of representation. 

The workshops are organized as hybrid studios that combine online and in-person sessions. This workshop invites participants on an intuitive and critical intellectual journey that moves between traces of the past, ruptures of the present, and possibilities of the future. It approaches Istanbul in the context of the Anthropocene not merely as a site of crisis, but as a spatial text that is read, erased, layered, and continuously rewritten. In this sense, the idea of the “city in the Anthropocene” is framed not only as a condition of crisis, but also as an act of rethinking and rewriting. 

Participants are expected to draw on urban experiences to produce new languages, images, and imaginaries appropriate to this epoch. The workshop is open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as interdisciplinary participants, from architecture, urban studies, design, art, and the social sciences. Participants are invited to develop new questions and possibilities concerning the future of the city in the Anthropocene through critical thinking, intuitive production, and experimental modes of representation.

Invited Workshop Instructors*

1. İpek Avanoğlu & Elif Adıgüzel & Bahar Avanoğlu 

2. İdil Erdemir Kocagil & Mehmet Emin Bayraktar

3. Ekin Girgin & Burak Çıkırıkçı 

4. Arzu İl Varol & Ebru Yetkin 

5. Gökçe Ketizmen & Eşref Taner İlerde 

6. Gülbin Lekesiz & Can Müezzinoğlu 

7. Ayşe Okudan 

8. Eda Şarman Ergün   

9. Ali Kemal Terlemez & Orkan Güzelci 

*In alphabetical order

Coordinator

Didem Boyacıoğlu, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design (didem.boyacioglu@ozyegin.edu.tr)  

Rapporteurs

Eda Kış, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design (nur.kis@ozu.edu.tr)  

Beril Özelçi, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design (beril.ozelci@ozu.edu.tr)  

Hülya Yavaş, Özyeğin University, Faculty of Architecture and Design (hulya.yavas@ozyegin.edu.tr)