Anlı Ataöv, Prof. Dr.
I approach cities and places as shared environments of change for living together and as arenas for democratic transformation. Integrating arts and body movement opens liberating spaces for expression, dialogue, and co-creation. Creative processes make the invisible visible, revealing how the layers of places are formed through the interaction of countless components over time, operating as dynamic assemblages that continuously evolve. Thirty-four years of experience as an action researcher, planning professional, university professor and community volunteer in Türkiye, the U.S., Canada, Norway, Denmark, and the U.K has brought out my skills in process and systems engineering, technology and social science integration, environmental aesthetics in urban design, spatial and institutional strategic planning, research methods, and community arts and sports in a journey of moderating such creative processes to ultimately foster connection and peace within and across communities.
Can Gölgelioğlu, Asst. Prof. Dr.
Trained as an urban designer, I conceptualize cities and places not as fixed physical entities, but as assemblages composed of livings and non-livings, relations, atmospheres, practices, and multiple layers of meaning. I see music as offering an exceptional medium for engaging with this multiplicity and for deepening our understanding of togetherness in life. For this reason, over recent years I have sought to bring my work on planning, urban design, governance, and sustainability into dialogue with artistic and musical practices, framing them as participatory interfaces for collective thinking and exchange. With each completed project, my conviction grows that creativity, dialogue, and the shared exploration of spatial dynamics constitute a powerful mode of inquiry and action.