HUBBAN
Topics
migration, urban space
Disciplines
urban studies
HUB IDEA
Hubban, a collaborative initiative between two urban-focused organisations, aims to explore the dynamics of ever-changing refugee communities in major cities in Turkey. With a particular focus on how these communities shape and reshape urban environments, the hub seeks to map connections, intersections, and encounters between different generations of refugees. Their approach spans various cultural aspects, from culinary practices to performance art, to contribute to integrating newly emerged communities into urban life. By emphasising the importance of recognizing these communities as integral parts of the city, Hubban aims to foster cultural exchanges and partnerships, creating bridges between diverse cultures that have migrated to the same urban setting. In doing so, they aspire to contribute to mutual development, social cohesion, and the establishment of cultural encounters on a systemic level.Istanbul
Urban.koop
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Istanbul
Urban.koop
urbankoop.org/
Urban.koop is a collective network of independent urban practitioners. The cooperative aims to create a common work sphere for researchers and experts from diverse academic and institutional backgrounds. It provides a network where innovative urban policies, strategies, designs, and practices are collectively created by sharing social resources. Primary methodology in Urban.koop’s work is building bridges between independent experts and different strata of civil society, academia, and local governments. Our project approach is based on institutional participation where we aim to build a collaborative institutional interface for the urban researchers, designers, artists, space makers, and creative workforce.
Ankara
Ankara Aks
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Ankara
Ankara Aks
www.ankaraaks.com/
Aks Association establishes creative teams according to their focus areas and designs a sustainable system for the future with a dynamic and multidisciplinary perspective, where team members establish relationships, develop ideas, and collaborate on projects. It establishes collaborations within the European Creative Hubs Network, which is a member, with its creative centre setup. The ideas produced turn into EU-supported projects. It also works as an official partner of the New European Bauhaus Community. Creates social impact in projects.
TOWARD | H O M E | AWAY
An interdisciplinary team of artists from Germany and Turkey will hold a week-long workshop under the theme “home away”, culminating in a public site-specific performance. Involving performance, music, dance, and video art.The workshop and performance are planned to occur on a public site relevant to Hubban’s aims and targets, therefore spaces of daily solidarity amongst migrant communities will be targeted. The theme “home away” is preferred to reflect the social reality of migrant artists who are the target group of the Hubban Project.
The workshop and the performance will include two main activities;
enabling an interdisciplinary group of Hubban and Bridgeworks artists from different artistic fields to work and co-create together, developing the performance concept throughout the week
the site will be redesigned by Urban.koop and AnkarAks with minor place-making interventions. The urban design process will be parallel to the workshop; according to the needs of the performance
The project also may include local community workshops and it is planned to be performed to a live audience and will be recorded for documentation and communication purposes.
TOWARD | H O M E | AWAY is part of a three-month process-oriented research between the core team of bridgeworks from Berlin, Germany and Hubban.
