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This time, "How is it possible to understand? In the questions of Çağla Gürses, who said, "What is the first way to approach understanding?", The participants agreed on the issue through empathy.
Çağla Gürsel: "The idea we are facing is I asked the person a question, I waited for him to answer me and ask questions. Let us get acquainted with him now, let's get acquainted with him. Are we going to put ourselves in the place of an intellectual to understand the other?
"An idea came to our mind," What can I tell him about myself?
"Think of this as a draft of an idea that will work for all humanity"
"Can we say writing, drawing, talking and collecting materials to come up with an idea?" Çağla Gürses asked the participants to draw a figure on the paper. Then for this figure, "Think of this as a blueprint of an idea that will work for all of humanity, I want another top idea to find this idea to develop the idea at hand." he gave the participants 5 minutes. At the end of this period, Çağla Gürses made short comments about the drawings and ended the session by saying that we will do a small workshop that will last 5 days.

One More Workshop

At the "Itself A Philosophy and Art Workshop" led by Çağla Gülses, the participants made a philosophical investigation through the emergence of ideas and their way of life and our relationship with them.
In this investigation environment conducted over the "Little Prince" from time to time, the Fox and the Little Prince were strangers to each other and the question was "Can we approach him immediately, assuming that our idea is a fox?"
Saying what would you ask after saying hello, Çağla Gürses participants' comments from different perspectives deepened the subject.
In the speech that continued on "Can the question be answered with a question?"

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Festival Ekibinden Veda

Banu Binat gave the clues that they are already in a planning process for the second one, with the words "By digesting the reality of the pandemic, preparing for it, we have set up something digital that will breathe people in this process and we know what to do next."
Taking over the word, Dürrin Süer mentioned that it is important to talk about architecture with many people and to make the agenda, and that it is a festival that is full and dynamic.
Neslihan Dostoğlu stated that there was an intense participation in the festival and very large areas were addressed, and that during the pandemic period, an environment was created where everyone could exhibit what they produced in the thinking and withdrawal.
Deniz Güner summarized the festival by expressing that this digital festival, which has been planned for a long time, appeals to the national scale with the issue of "being independent from the place", created a digital publicity and was almost a virtual cultural center.

The first Istanbul Architecture Festival, the first step of a much longer and intriguing journey, took place.
Today was the last day of the Istanbul Architecture Festival. The festival ended with the closing event held live on the youtube account of the festival. .
Saitali Köknar summarized the theme of the publication with the sentence "We want to share our impressions after the festival, which was very productive and exciting, and how can we transfer our experiences about this festival, which we plan to hold the second time in the fall next year."
After that, Zuhal Ulusoy said that the festival hosts a wide variety of rich content, appeals to many people, and it is an event that is very much owned.

Ertuğ Uçar stated that the digital format created with this festival is not temporary, and that every event can get a share from these important returns and this digital example is a successful example.
Selçuk Avcı told us that he has already started to have dreams for the second Istanbul Festival Of Architecture and that he dreams about it.He later stated that the next events will not only be physical, and this festival is a great example of experiencing this.
Tolgahan Akbulut said that 27 thousand different people entered the website during the entire event, that more than 65 thousand sites were circulated and a total of 59 different countries participated in the festival, saying that they were able to create the festival environment, they thought and succeeded to reach this many people, and that this can be seen with these statistics and feedbacks.
Yüksel Demir stated that these results made him very happy and that they are planning to be very geographical for the next year.
Dilara Tekin stated that she was very happy that the festival leaked into daily life and became locked on the screen.
Deniz Guner, built together with the participants, aiming to reach every part of Turkey, on all the appeal of the festival of architecture be summed up in the words of the festival.

Neslihan İmamoğlu reminded us again that 16 films published on Mubi will be accessible for 1 month and that we can examine them.
Later, Banu Binat thanked all the sponsors for being with them in such a period.
Finally, Tolgahan Akbulut added that the records of all the events will be published on the festival accounts after the festival and remember to follow the festival's blog, and the broadcast ended with thanks and good wishes.

The Last Dinner...

As the ParadigMAP Bulletin team, we would like to express our endless gratitude to the whole festival team and to K. Bilge Erdem, who communicated with us throughout the festival process, for taking part in this festival.

We would like to thank our community consultant Assoc. Dr.M. Burak Altınışık and all our professors from PAU Architecture Department

We say goodbye to the newsletter process, which we have been accustomed to for a week, with the last day. With the sadness of the Last Supper on us...

Hope to see you at the next festival.