After a successful symposium, fruitful presentations, engaging discussions, and an exciting field trip since the beginning of the course in October, we have come to the last week of the Historic Ports, Future Cities: Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Urban Development Course.
At NIT Urban Heritage Lab this week, we leave the floor to our course participants. They will present their project proposals for the revalorization of Izmir's port city heritage. After the presentation of the project proposals, Dr. Ayşegül Altınörs Çırak (Dokuz Eylül Uni), Dr. Fatma Tanış (TUDelft), Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (METU), and Cezara Matei (Front la Dunăre) will evaluate and discuss these projects in a discussion session moderated by Dr. Özgün Özçakır (METU) and Dr. Fokke Gerritsen (NIT).

Date: 13 December 2024, Friday
Time: 16.30 - 19.00 (Istanbul time) / 14.30 - 17.00 (Amsterdam time)

The event will be online. Please register for the symposium in advance to receive the meeting link. The session will be held in English.

Registration link: Go here

Program

16.30-16.45 | An Overview of NIT Urban Heritage Lab 2024

Dr. Fokke Gerritsen

16.45-17.15 | Group Presentations I

Making the Invisible Visible: Reviving Basmane’s Forgotten Heritage

Dr. Hasan Işıklı, Merve Tatlı, Natalia Papageorgiou, Sabrina Sabić, Zeynep Özkaya İlbey

TRACING THE UNSEEN: THE HARBOUR BATH OF SMYRNA. Where is the Harbour Bath? Can you see the Harbour Bath? Here is the Harbour Bath!

Aysu Gürman, Dr. Buket Ergun Kocaili, İbrahim Can Kırseven, Nazlı İpek Mavuşoğlu , Vahid Ghaneh Gilandeh

17.15-17.30 | Coffee Break

17.30-18.00 | Group Presentations II 

PORT-ABLE ALSANCAK: Reclaiming and Revitalizing Urban Space

Aydın Youshanloo, Dr. Ayşegül Avcı, Bilgesu Sever, Diğdem Angın, Nazlı Yıldız

Rediscovering the Lost Layers: Urban Erasure and Narrative Shifts of İzmir as a Port City

Cem Büyüksural, Deniz Eriten, Ferhat Oytun Yalçın, Güldeste Tekin, Semire Bayatlı

18.00-18.15 | Break

18.15-19.00 | Discussion & Q&A

Discussants: Dr. Ayşegül Altınörs Çırak (Dokuz Eylül Uni), Dr. Fatma Tanış (TUDelft), Dr. A. Güliz Bilgin Altınöz (METU), Cezara Matei (Front la Dunăre)

Moderators: Dr. Özgün Özçakır (METU) & Dr. Fokke Gerritsen (NIT)

NIT Urban Heritage Lab is an initiative of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey that investigates the role of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in achieving inclusive, circular, and sustainable cities. The fourth edition of the Urban Heritage Lab Autumn course is organized by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU), and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, with the support of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Istanbul, the Historical Port City of Izmir Site Management Office, and TARKEM. The Historic Ports, Future Cities: Cultural Heritage for Sustainable Urban Development Course will focus on the cultural heritage of port cities.