Die Ziele für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung lassen sich gestalten!

Wie dies aussehen kann, zeigt eine Ausstellung präsentiert vom ökoRAUSCH Think Tank in Kooperation mit der Stadt Köln. Im Mittelpunkt der Präsentation stehen Geschichten vieler Gestalter*innen aus den Kölner Partnerstädten Tel Aviv und Bethlehem sowie weiteren palästinensischen Städten, die grüne Ideen und Produkte entwickeln.

Hilft Design dabei, den Herausforderungen des Klimawandels zu trotzen und das soziale Miteinander zu gestalten? Antworten auf diese Fragen, und was das konkret mit Köln zu tun hat, erzählt die Ausstellung.

Die Ausstellung stellt die Akteur*innen aus den beteiligten Partnerstädten in Form von Porträts der Dokumentarfotografin Sabine Stein vor, die die Netzwerk- und Workshopreihe ECO DESIGN FORUM international im Herbst 2016 begleitet hat. Ihnen gegenübergestellt runden atmosphärisch starke Landschaftsbilder sowie Stadtansichten der besuchten Orte in Israel und Palästina die Reise ab.

Im zweiten Teil der Ausstellung gibt eine Wand-Collage Einblick in die konkrete Arbeit der Gestalter*innen. Einzelnen Blitzlichtern gleich flackern Schnappschüsse, Material aus den Ateliers und Studios der Akteur*innen sowie Fundstücke der Reise auf und spiegeln das Gesamtbild des ECO DESIGN FORUM international wider.

Hauptstadt des fairen Handels

Parallel zu dieser Ausstellung werden ausgewählte Projekte der Stadt Köln vorgestellt, die sich um die nachhaltigen, globalen Entwicklungsziele drehen. 2017 hat Köln den Titel „Hauptstadt des Fairen Handels“ geholt, der das Engagement belohnt, sich für die Ziele nachhaltiger Entwicklung stark zu machen –  und die Trophäe wird anwesend sein!

Der mit 60.000 € dotierte Preis richtet sich an deutsche Städte und Gemeinden und wird alle zwei Jahre von Engagement Global vergeben und vom Bundesministerium für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung gefördert. Das erfolgreiche Abschneiden der Stadt Köln ist vor allem dem breiten Engagement der Kölner Zivilgesellschaft, insbesondere der Steuerungsgruppe zum Fairen Handel, aber auch dem verwaltungsinternen Vorgehen zur fairen Beschaffung z.B. von Dienstbekleidung zu verdanken.

Klimapartnerschaft / Corinto

Des weiteren werden in der gemeinschaftlichen Präsentation die „Klimapartnerschaft“ mit den Kölner Partnerstädten Corinto/El Realejo in Nicaragua  vorgestellt. Köln ist 2012 mit seinen nicaraguanischen Partnerstädten Corinto und El Realejo eine Kommunale Klimapartnerschaft eingegangen. Wäh- rend es in Köln um CO2-Reduzierung geht, steht in Corinto und El Realejo die Anpassung an den Klimawandel im Vordergrund, da Nicaragua eines der Länder ist, die am wenigsten zum Klimawandel beitragen, aber am meisten von den negativen Folgen betroffen sind. Bisher wurden Projekte zu Katastrophenschutz, Küstenschutz, Mangrovenschutz und Abfallwirtschaft umgesetzt.

Eine-Welt Stadt Köln

Die Arbeit des Netzwerks Eine-Welt Stadt Köln wird ebenfalls vorgestellt. Es bündelt, fördert und stärkt das Kölner Engagement, ein Bewusstsein und eine Lobby für entwicklungspolitische Themen in der Bevölkerung und Politik zu schaffen. Es wurde mit großer Unterstützung prominenter Botschafter*innen 2011 gegründet und umfasst heute rund 430 Mitglieder. Die vielfältigen Aktivitäten im Netzwerk werden koordiniert und unterstützt vom Referat für Internationale Angelegenheiten der Stadt Köln.

Sustainable Development Goals

Verbindendes Element zwischen allen Präsentationen sind die nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele der Vereinten Nationen, die Sustainable Development Goals. Die 17 von der UN beschlossenen nachhaltigen Entwicklungsziele gelten gleichermaßen für Industrie-, Schwellen- und Entwicklungsländer und verdeutlichen, dass diese tiefgreifende Transformation der gemeinsamen Verantwortung aller bedarf, die Welt zukunftsfähig und gerecht zu gestalten.  Themen wie Fairer Handel, Umweltschutz oder nachhaltiger Konsum finden sich in den 17 Zielen wieder – und ebenfalls in den Geschichten der Gestalter*innen aus den Partnerstädten Kölns.

Design/18/12

Zur dritten Ausgabe von Design/18/12, dem Off-Event zur Möbelmesse in Sülz, Klettenberg und Zollstock, ist die gemeinsame Präsentation vom Referat für Internationale Angelegenheiten und dem ökoRAUSCH Think Tank für Design & Nachhaltigkeit als Station Nummer 6, Gottesweg 137 in Zollstock vom 15.1. bis zum 21.1. täglich von 12 bis 20 Uhr geöffnet. Am Samstag, den 20.1. findet ab 18 Uhr ein feiner, fairer Sektempfang statt, zu dem wir herzlich einladen – der Eintritt zur Ausstellung sowie zur Veranstaltung ist natürlich an allen Tagen kostenfrei!

 

Die Ausstellung realisieren wir in Kooperation mit dem Referat für Internationale Angelegenheiten der Stadt Köln gefördert aus dem Preisgeld „Hauptstadt des Fairen Handels“ von Engagement Global aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung.

In cooperation with the City of Cologne, the ECO DESIGN FORUM international 2016 was successfully launched in Cologne’s sister cities of Bethlehem and Tel Aviv. Thanks to renewed support by Engagement Global with funding from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia in 2017, we have invited not only select designers and artists from these two cities to come to the ökoRAUSCH Festival in Cologne, but also from Cologne’s sister cities Barcelona and Istanbul.

On May 15^th designers, artists, creative thinkers and cultural protagonists were meeting up with sustainability experts to exchange thoughts about the relevance of design and art in the fields of economy and society and learned from each other.

Three inspiring, stimulating lectures, a discussion panel with all our international experts as well as three workshops on the key issues of “culture & creative economy”, “ecological production” & environmental psychology” made the ECO DESIGN FORUM CGN quite a success!

Auja Eco Centre is an environmental education center for Palestinians and Internationals in the Jordan Valley

The Jordan River Valley is a unique landscape. Auja Eco Center works to protect the valley and support its inhabitants through environmental education and eco-tourism activities. It invites guests to explore the valley, meet its people, and preserve its beauty for future generations.

Auja Eco Center endeavors to give Palestinian students the necessary knowledge and skills to become wise custodians of the valley. The Center also offers lectures, workshops, and field trips for people from around the world who are interested in learning more about this unique environment and to help advocate for its rehabilitation.

Auja Eco Center offers a welcoming, comfortable, and peaceful base from which visitors can explore the Jordan River Valley. The guesthouse provides an ideal environment to escape the chaos of city life, and welcomes guests to visit and relax for a weekend with friends or family.

The Center welcomes businesses or NGOs that are looking to hold conferences, workshops, or retreats away from the office, as well as individual researchers or journalists working on projects in the valley.

The Palestinian Territories have long been denied their human right to sufficient, safe, acceptable, physically accessible and affordable water for personal and domestic uses due to restrictions placed by the Israeli occupation. As a result, the daily per capita share of water for the Palestinians is less than the daily recommended World Health Organization standards.

The historical flow of the Jordan River was 1.3 billion cubic meters of water, annually. The river flows from its source in the Lebanese hills to its mouth in the Dead Sea, via the Sea of Galilee. But following the 1948 war, and Israel’s ceasefire with Jordan, the two countries decided to split rights to the river. Each year, Israel diverts 580 million cubic meters of water from the river to the Negev Desert. Jordan diverts 290 million cubic meters to its farms on the east side of the river, and to Amman.

Syria is also involved, building hundreds of dams along the Yarmouk River, a tributary of the Jordan. Altogether, Israel, Jordan and Syria divert 94% of the Jordan’s water for their own purposes. These measures have been catastrophic for Palestinians. Before 1967, Palestinian farmers could use the river’s water for irrigation during the winter months. In summer, meanwhile, they could fish and sell their catch to towns in the West Bank.

But now, because only 2% of the river’s water reaches the Dead Sea, any economic use the Jordan River might have had is long gone. This is exacerbated by constant Jordanian fly-tipping, which makes the river highly polluted. For their part, Illegal Israeli settlements in the valley have fresh water pumped in especially by the Israeli Water company, Mekorot. Even if the river did contain more clean water, Palestinians could not access it. In 1967, Israel heavily mined the bank of the river. Palestinians are not allowed near, except at one strictly-controlled point at Al-Maghtas.

With all these challenges, it is a struggle to make any progress. But Auja Eco Center’s staff are clearly passionate about improving the agricultural and environmental conditions on the Palestinian side of the river.

The methods applied by the Center are beautifully simple. Toilet water is unsalvageable, but water from the rest of the house (so-called ‚grey water’) is treated by pouring it through tanks of gravel and sand that filters out impurities. The result is so clean that the water is even suitable for washing hands.

Irrigation systems are created from used plastic bottles. Condensation from air-conditioning units is collected and reused. Even in the dusty courtyard of Auja Eco Centre, the landscape blossoms. By distributing water-saving devices to public places – such as the schools, the mosque – Auja Eco Center has begun to win over sceptics. People start seeing this system work and understand its benefits. Financial incentives also tend to be popular as these measures save a lot of money.

Indeed, Auja Eco Centre and its methods have become so famous that local communities have started requesting advice on how to improve their irrigation and water-saving systems. Promoting self-sufficiency is especially important given that many local people work on farms in illegal Israeli settlements, often for low pay and in dreadful conditions.

Still, if these innovations help farmers in their daily slog, they do not deal with the Jordan Valley’s wider problems.

But here too, Auja Eco Centre is trying to make a difference. The Centre is run by EcoPeace Middle East, a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists. Its primary objective is to promote cooperative efforts that protect the region’s shared environmental heritage. In doing so, it seeks to advance both sustainable regional development and the creation of necessary conditions for lasting peace in the region.

Last year, EcoPeace released its first ‚master plan’ for the Jordan Valley. This plan, launched in June 2015, created a coordinated rehabilitation initiative across all three countries. It is a comprehensive programme designed to rehabilitate the Lower Jordan River and its tributaries. It determines coordinated regional flow regimes, sets water quality standards, identifies solutions to treat all pollution sources, launches restoration and preservation programs, establishes ecological corridors, and identifies opportunities to expand ecotourism infrastructures in the Jordan Valley, including the preparation of regional heritage routes. The plan specifies unique, yet complementary plans for the Palestinian and Jordanian portions of the Lower Jordan Valley, the first of its kind.

This cautious collaboration extends to young people. In 2015, EcoPeace organized an event funded by German development company GIZ, with environmentally interested students from the Lower Jordan Valley’s three countries. EcoPeace alumni came together on opposite sides of the river to raise awareness about saving the Jordan River and improving the water quality. From an international perspective, it was a success.

Mr. Mahmoud Driaat
Auja Eco-Center / EcoPeace Middle East, Jericho – Palestine

Mr. Steven Brine
Editor / stevenbrine@yahoo.com.au

One of our fieldtrips during our ECO DESIGN FORUM in Tel Aviv past October 2016 was to „ONYA City“. Heela and Yoav of the ONYA Collective – a gathering of architects, activists, community leaders, and volunteers – took the time and showed us around one of their impressive projects at the New Central Bus Station in South Tel Aviv.

Here are some impressions of our trip and a glimpse at who the ONYA Collective is and what they are doing in their own words:

The Onya Collective started in 2014 as part of the WorldWide Storefront contest, to reimagine alternative futures for large urban landscapes. We focused on the Central Bus Station in South Tel Aviv, an enormous concrete structure that has destroyed the surrounding neighborhoods and is a center for drug use, prostitution, and crime. We launched the Collective with a two-month-long festival on all seven floors of the bus station, showcasing artwork and creative urban agriculture such as hydroponics and a library with a green wall.

Since that time, we have continued to be active at the bus station with a community garden and space on Neve Shaanan street. We give tours of the bus station to highlight the unique challenges of this massive building, which today stands 60% abandoned, but also provides a home for the city’s marginalized populations.

We are working towards turning the “Rampa Garden” on Neve Shaanan St into a community resource available free of charge to the diverse communities of South Tel Aviv.

Today, the Onya Collective is made up of a core group of architects, activists, community leaders, and volunteers. Through our work at the bus station, cities from across Israel have turned to us to copy our approach to Neve Shaanan and do “placemaking” in their challenging neighborhoods. We utilize community organizing principals to design public spaces that serve the needs of all of the residents of the areas where we work.

iota is a social brand designing beautiful handmade objects for the interior while creating jobs for otherwise unemployed people worldwide. iota’s foundations are based on three fundamentals: the use of handmade elements to create new, unexpected designs; the usage of luxurious bespoke yarns and materials; and being a social business. Our collection gives stage to our unique textiles which we develop and design and is based on the technic of Crochet knitting. Our products vary from rugs in different sizes to poufs, stools and benches, pillows and swings, everything textile oriented, some with complimentary materials or structures. We design our products respectively to our vision so they can be crafted in the homes of otherwise unemployed women whom we train and groom. All our products are handmade by these women who create knitted elements in the comfort of their home and then send them over to our studio to be assembled into the final products. Our name has a meaning: ‚iota‘ stands for „a bit“ in Latin and as it is, little by little, from a single element to the final product, from the individual to the global, we aspire to make an impact on the lives of our clients, our employees and our community.

The vision behind ‚iota‘ is to establish a movement that allows different people from around the world to learn the technique of traditional hand-craftsmanship, to provide them employment and allow them to earn an honest living. This idea contains a social responsibility and a way to maintain traditional arts by extenuating the importance of knowledge and skills. It also portrays the belief that regardless of the infinite possibilities that technology offers, people still seek for a personal and unique hand print.

The main concept in our design is creating innovative products from a traditional starting point, and changing the perception of what can be done using hand techniques. As they are conceptually built up from pieces, our products have a tactile nature which calls to create playful contact and combinations between shapes, colors and textures. iota’s products fit into the “in-between” spaces of our lives, filling emotional and practical needs by creating beautiful objects which also carry a social cause. The search for products and materials is done by physical research. We learn old techniques combined with modern knowledge and come up with new strings in colors that are unique for us. All these create a new textile language that combines various materials into unlimited products. We make tradition contemporary.

iota was founded in 2014 by Shula Mozes, a social entrepreneur who had a dream to utilize the craft of knitting, which she loves, into a social opportunity. Knowing there are countless communities of women worldwide who are not able to work outside of the home, she felt that a design brand based on knitting could offer a solution for them and simultaneously be a platform for exciting and bespoke design. Shula reached out to Tal Zur, an Industrial designer with an inclination to crafts and an understanding in textiles, to be the creative mind behind the project. Tal fell in love with the idea, and together they set to build up their dream.

Today, iota first of all is a social-business, both ecologically and socially conscious, with a commitment to sustainability and community support. The majority of profits from iota’s product sales are invested in welfare and educational programs worldwide. We aim to work within communities with high rates of unemployment, and provide mentoring and training programs for women. We work with people with no prospect of employment, giving those opportunities as we invest in their training and mentorship. We give our employees the option of working from home and reward them with fair pay, while creating a sense of community and empowerment. Our production process is completely transparent, and we absolutely condemn child labor and sweat shop environment.

We teach methods of re-appropriating traditional craft techniques, which requires teaching of skills. We believe the importance of skills does not lie only in the final product but rather in the process. The process of hand craftsmanship, which necessarily requires time and attention from the craftsman, creates an emotional connection between him and the final product he created. This connection creates emotional products. The products embody the craftsman’s unique finger print and thus making him an inseparable part of the final product. As opposed to a machine which creates anonymous products, our handmade products have a past, a background and a memory.

A skill, if utilized, can have rewarding qualities; rewarding to the product that is created as a one of a kind element; and rewarding to the craftsperson, whose skill makes him an expert, and therefore meaningful. This empowerment, deriving from owning a skill, is what we strive to preserve and enhance.

The photos from our visit are taken from Sabine Stein sabinestein.com

Dies ist Teil zwei der Erfahrungsberichte der Teilnehmer des ECO DESIGN FORUMS. Was passiert wenn Designer und Künstler aus vier Ländern gemeinsam reisen? Fünf Tage Programm mit Vorträgen, Exkursionen und jeder Menge Austausch, erst in Tel Aviv / Israel und später in Auja / Palästina haben bei allen starke Eindrücke hinterlassen und Fragen aufgeworfen.

Aviya

Produktdesignerin / Tel Aviv, Israel

Participating in the workshop was a great pleasure. Meeting some great designers from different countries that are most importantly, interesting lovely people that I’m happy I have met. We had many opportunities to connect and getting to know each other and I think that just this, for itself, is an amazing opportunity.

In addition, It was pleasantly surprising, that although the workshop was held in my home city, ökoRAUSCH group found the way to expose us locals to some great content and experiences within our own city that we haven’t heard or seen before.

I personally think that as designers, everything that we experience is absorbed in our system and at the end comes out in our work in one way or another.

Gemeinsam eine Reise machen … ist immer ein kleines Abenteuer und man erlebt viel. Was passiert wenn Designer und Künstler aus vier Ländern gemeinsam reisen? Fünf Tage Programm mit Vorträgen, Exkursionen und jeder Menge Austausch, erst in Tel Aviv / Israel und später in Auja / Palästina haben bei allen starke Eindrücke hinterlassen und Fragen aufgeworfen.

Design, Kunst und Nachhaltigkeit

Wir sind zurück von unserer ersten Workshop- und Netzwerkreihe, dem ökoRAUSCH ECO DESIGN FORUM international!  Ende Oktober 2016 waren wir in Israel und Palästina und präsentieren hier erste Impressionen als Fotostory.

Im Gepäck des ECO DESIGN FORUM (EDF) haben meine Kolleginnen Christina Schütz, Isabel Oestreich, Tatjana Krischik und ich viele, ganz individuelle Geschichten der Gestalter*innen aus Israel und Palästina. Sie alle entwickeln innovative, grüne Ideen, Projekte und Produkte und bergen einen Schatz an Inspiration, Mut und Kreativität in sich!
Der interkulturelle Austausch und die internationale Vernetzung zu nachhaltigem Design und Kunst zwischen palästinensischen, israelischen und deutschen Designer*innen aus den Partnerstädten Tel Aviv, Bethlehem und Köln, sowie den türkischen und spanischen Kooperationspartner*innen aus den Partnerstädten Istanbul und Barcelona hat den Erfolg des EDFs maßgeblich geprägt.

(alle Fotos wenn nicht anders angegeben: Sabine Stein)

 

Tag 1 | Start des EDF in der Heinrich Böll Stiftung Israel, Tel Aviv
mit Präsentationen aller Kooperationspartner*innen und ökoRAUSCH zur Szene nachhaltigen Designs und Kunst in den jeweiligen Ländern

Tel Aviv / Israel
Adital Ela, Designerin und Dozentin für nachhaltiges Design, Inhaberin S-Sense Design

Auja / Palästina
Malek Abualfailat, Palästinischer Projektmanager Friends of the Earth – Middle East

Istanbul / Türkei
Pınar Öncel and Tuna Özçuhadar, Leiter des Projekts Design and Innovation Initiative for Sustainability

Barcelona / Spanien
Maria Paz Montecinos, Mitarbeiterin des Upcycling Festivals Drap-Art

Köln / Deutschland
Dunja Karabaic, Projekleiterin ökoRAUSCH Think Tank

 

Tag 2 | ALMA Home of Hebrew Culture, Tel Aviv
Panel 1 Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft
Impulsvortrag und Workshop
Authentische Geschäftsmodelle für nachhaltiges Design
Christof Schreckenberg, Feldstärken GmbH

Panel 2 Education, Social Design & Arts
Vortrag (via Skype)
A Short Trip into Environmental Psychology Laura Henn

Impulse aus der Praxis
Globales Lernen und Upcycling Tatjana Krischik, ökoRAUSCH Think Tank
Art & Dialogue Isabel Oestreich, ökoRAUSCH Think Tank
co-designed processes Pinar Öncel
Earth Based Art Daphna Yalon

Tag 3 | Reisetag
Auf dem Weg zum zweiten Standort des EDF international in Auja unternahmen wir eine Exkursion nach Battir und Ramallah und trafen dort Akteure der lokalen Design-, Kunst- und Nachhaltigkeitsszene:

Battir Landscape Ecomuseum

Qalandiyainternational

Disarming Design

Tag 4 | EcoCenter Auja
Projektpräsentationen Szene nachhaltigen Designs
mit Adital Ela, Mahmoud Driaat, Pınar Öncel und Tuna Özçuhadar, Maria Paz Montecinos und Dunja Karabaic

Führung EcoCenter, Exkursion nach Jericho, wo wir Akteure der lokalen Design-, Kunst- und Nachhaltigkeitsszene trafen.

Tag 5 | EcoCenter Auja
Panel 1 Kultur- und Kreativwirtschaft
Impulsvortrag und Workshop
Christof Schreckenberg, Feldstärken GmbH

Panel 2 Education, Social Design & Arts
Impulse aus der Praxis
Workshop Bau eines Ofens aus selbst produzierten Lehmziegeln Ahmad Ameen Attyat, EcoCenter Auja

The Team from EcoPeace Middle East is our host for the second part of the ECO DESIGN FORUM. We are happy to visit the EcoCenter in Auja and to get insights into the work of EcoPeace. We will meet Malek at this very special place.

Malek Abualfailat is a Project Manager at EcoPeace ME based in Bethlehem and he resides in Hebron.

Malek has been at EcoPeace for the past 6 years, first as the Palestinian manager of the project Protecting Ground Water (PGW), which aimed to improve and enhance the institutional capacity to rehabilitate and protect trans-boundary ground water in six districts across the West Bank.

In his second period of EcoPeace ME he managed Auja Environmental Education Center. The Center aims to increase the awareness of trans-boundary water issues, renewable energy needs, alleviation of pollution, adaptation to climate change, and sustainable agriculture in the area, in addition to promote eco-tourism.

Recently, Malek has become the Good Water Neighbors project manager. This project is considered to be the umbrella for all EcoPeace projects.

Pınar Öncel and Tuna Özçuhadar are cooperation partners from Istanbul / Turkey. They will give us a special view on the scene of sustainable Design in Istanbul. Both are joining the ECO DESIGN FORUM for the whole time and enrich our journey.

Profile

Pınar is a designer, a change agent and creative facilitator. She focuses on developing collaborative projects for local initiatives, companies and any organization pursuing resilience and transformation. She designs and facilitates sustainability trainings, co-design processes and capacity building workshops for multi stakeholder groups.

She co-initiated the Sustainable Living Film Festival and Surdurulebiliryasam.tv to raise awareness about sustainability challenges of our time and inspire individuals to become change makers. She is the CEO of Sarıyer Entrepreneur Women Cooperative; which supports women in the region with various projects. Pınar graduated from Industrial Design Department of Middle East Technical University and holds an Msc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Tuna is a systems designer and a strategist for sustainability, focusing on how systemic thinking perspective could shape design & innovation for a better life on this planet. Being aware that creativity is crucial for change, he is focusing on creative design and innovation projects with a systemic approach; using design and creativity as leverage for sustainability.

He co-initiated Sustainable Living Film Festival in 2008 and Surdurulebiliryasam.tv (a web portal for documentaries) recently to raise awareness about the complex systems behind global problems and to find out creative local solutions from all around the world.

Tuna graduated as an industrial designer from Middle East Technical University. He holds an MSc in Environmental Control and Building Technology from Istanbul Technical University and another MSc in Strategic Sustainability Leadership from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.

Sustainable Living Film Festival

The biggest project of Pınar Öncel and Tuna Özçuhadar is the Sürdürülebilir Yaşam Film Festivali (Sustainable Living Film Festival) which they are organizing together with Gamze Selçuk as the Sürdürülebilir Yaşam Kolektifi (Sustainable Living Collective). They are showing 30 films simultaneously in 20 different cities and districts throughout Turkey as well as hosting speakers, dance and musical performances all for free. this very unique festival will be bringing important issues such as climate change, water, energy, agriculture, transportation and the fashion industry to the forefront while introducing some of the country’s leading pioneers in the sustainability movement.

„Since 2008, we have been organizing the Sürdürülebilir Yaşam Film Festival as a collective with hundreds of volunteers. We first began organizing film showings, discussion meetings, university seminars and workshops. However, since 2011, we have been solely working on organizing a film festival each year,“ Tuna says.

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Read the full article about the festival, the idea and motivation here:
dailysabah.com