We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers, artists, writers, architects, scientists and activists who explore and engage in commonization practices for social change.
Our goal is to contribute to a pluralistic, egalitarian, and democratic Turkey with an emphasis on human rights, social and economic justice, gender equality, sexual rights, cultural and political recognition and ecologic sustainability from a critical historical perspective.
We develop in-situ embodied knowledge through in-depth, focused research and policy analysis, creative public engagement, collective learning activities, solidarity campaigns and network collaborations.
Urban Justice and Right to the City
Labor & Finance
Collective Memory
Aesthetics and Politics
- Facilitating interdisciplinary research through collaborative networks;
- Developing practices of creative public engagement including data visualization projects, media campaigns, recording of collective memory in archives,
- Organizing lectures, workshops, exhibitions, conferences and summer schools as part of the RIT University of the Commons.
- An ongoing collective learning process
- Open and egalitarian participation of members in decision-making
- An alternative to corporate think-tank models
- A productive model of brewing ideas and action through solidarity
- A hub for creativity and of thinking outside the box
- A collective body of work that culminates impactful tools for social transformation and change
