Stories of Yenisehir
workshop + exhibition│ 2020 + 2021 (second opening after the cancelation of the first due to Covid-19)
Chamber of Urban Planners, Ankara, Turkey
Yenişehir, the modern heart of Ankara, is a district constantly in flux, where abandoned or transformed projects stand as monuments to both change and resistance. In a recent workshop, this ongoing transition was likened to the turbulent journey from childhood to adolescence, and from adolescence to young adulthood—an ideal metaphor for exploring themes of incompleteness and transformation.
The workshop delved into the childhood and youth narratives of Yenişehir, recognizing that everyday memories play a crucial role in shaping the city's narrative and vice versa. Participants conducted interviews with individuals who spent their formative years in Yenişehir, capturing their memories through video and audio recordings. These recollections were then creatively recreated, producing a series of images and stories that formed a collective memory map.
Project Coordinators│Çiğdem Yönder, Özlem Yalçınkaya, Seda Şen
Participants │Artun Yılmaz, Berkay Boyacıoğlu, Dilara Kayıkçı, Ege İmren, Elif Akbaba, Funda Mengilli, Pınar Çobanyılmaz Öztürk
Memory Owners │Ali Öztürk, Aydın Afacan, Baykan Günay, Deniz Altay, Erkal Güçeyür, Ertan Timuçin, Figen Ketenci, Gamze Kılıç, Güney Kaplan, Hasan Bey, Kenan Turgut, Mediha Alsancak, Meltem Kıran-Raw, Nurullah Demirtaş, Özlem Yalçınkaya, Seda Usubütün, Şakir İnci, Ulaş Bager
