Testing İstanbul‘s Waters: Thirst Talk #5 – with Serkan Taycan

In this extra Thirst Talk, Sophie crosses – virtual – paths with engineer and artist Serkan Taycan who initiated the Between Two Seas Walk: an artwork, a heritage walk and an open air laboratory at the same time. By combining the notion of engineering with an artistic practice, Taycan tries to make us aware of how spatial decision-making can have enormous cultural and ecological consequences.

Cited references

• Serkan Taycan
  www.serkantaycan.com/
• A Wall of Water (5’48’’), Serkan Taycan, 2018
• İstanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu says only a handful of people will benefit from the Kanal Istanbul project.
• bianet.org/english/environment…al-istanbul-project
• Between Two Seas
  cultureroutesinturkey.com/between-two-seas/
• Gezi Park protests, 2013
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gezi_Park_protests
• Ece Uzmay Asya, “Hydropolitics and Water Geographies of Istanbul” (master thesis), Kadir Has University, July 2019 (unpublished). See Ece Uzmay Asya, “ The 1970 Cholera Epidemic in Sağmalcılar: Unveiling the Entangled Water Relations of Istanbul”, İstanbul Unbound Conference, 2021 (replay starts around 39 minutes)
• www.crowdcast.io/e/istanbul-unbound/8
• Lignite Mining in Turkey
  www.gem.wiki/Turkey_and_coal

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