BOĞADA: intervention workshop in public space

10th to 18th of September 2017
"Bull Square" in Kadikoy, Istanbul (Turkey)

BOĞADA collective workshop is the final stage of Re-Lab, an international collaboration project promoted by hablarenarte and TAK Kadiköy that focuses on spacemaking participatory processes.

Re-Lab was structured around a research residency & Exchange knowledge programe between Turkish and Spanish collectives. After a two-way mobility & exchange experience in Canary Islands and Istanbul (May - July 2017), it finalizes with a workshop intervention in the neighbourhood of Kadiköy, Istanbul.

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One square / 5 working days / 25 people working together: how far we can go?

Between the 10th and 18th of September 2017, Spanish collective Todo por la Praxis runs BOĞADA a collaborative workshop that promotes the creation of devices that respond to the main needs of neighbours and users of one of the most active public spaces in Kadiköy, the "Bull Square".

BOĞADA workshop exchanges expertise and knowledge, based on practice, between collectives who work across the fields of art/design/architecture, in order to create projects together with the local communities and their inherent needs.

Along with Turkish collectives Herkes için Mimarlık (Architecture for All), -trak and Onaranlar Kulübü (Repairs Club), the workshop employs “do-it-yourself” methodology that involves direct responsibility for all project phases. Thus users identify with the projects and become aware of what they can bring about themselves.

BOĞADA workshop final goal is the prototyping of devices in Kadiköy neighborhood, that could respond to the needs of the local community, encouraging construction of citizen based democracy in such crucial times.

Schedule:

5th to 7th of September: open call & public registration
10th of September: welding workshop
11th to16th of September: co-design and open-space construction workshops
18th of September: Public talk about "bogada" process at Instituto Cervantes in Istanbul.

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Re-Lab is supported by Instituto Cervantes in Istanbul and Tandem programme, an initiative of the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), MitOst (Berlin), Anadolu Kültür (Istanbul), and funded by Stiftung Mercator (Essen).