The primary goal of this workshop, designed by Hrant Dink Foundation, is to enable participants to perceive a neighborhood not as a singular, fixed narrative, but as a multi-layered, pluralistic memory space where diverse experiences coexist. In this context, the workshop aims to develop practices for creating inclusive narratives. Through a guided memory tour and collage-based storytelling, participants are invited to re-read the past and present of a space through the experiences of different social groups, invisible stories, and everyday life practices.
During the workshop process, participants will be asked to photograph spatial details, traces, and encounters that capture their attention during the guided walk and share them with the workshop team. These photographs will be printed before the second session to be used in collage production. In this way, the participants' own perspectives and individual relationships with the space will be directly integrated into the narrative production process, creating a creative environment where plural and subjective experiences are made visible instead of a one-sided narrative.
The workshop bridges space and memory studies with the perspectives of social peace and coexistence. In urban areas where different identities, cultures, and life experiences intersect, narrative production can often be selective and exclusionary. This workshop aims to foster critical awareness by opening up discussions on which stories are made visible, which are left out, and by whom and how a neighborhood is represented. Consequently, it intends to enhance the participants' skills in constructing more inclusive narratives that respect spatial and cultural diversity.
In alignment with the goals of the Societal Peace and Freedom Forum, the workshop aims to:
- Encourage the consideration of different social experiences and memories together,
- Open a safe and creative space for dialogue and encounter,
- Enable participants to produce collective and plural narratives by listening to each other's perspectives,
- Make the multicultural and polyphonic structure of urban spaces visible.
This process seeks to contribute to the perspective of social peace and freedom through the practice of collective thinking, listening, and the construction of plural narratives.
Language: Turkish
Participation: Open to all.
Capacity: 20 people
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