The Circular@[action] series continues with an intensive Fall Academy of “String Figures of the Waste Terrain: Trans-disciplinary storytelling of waste through the Mediterranean” to not only use Istanbul as a key laboratory of trans-disciplinary dialogue between international EELISA program partners and local stakeholders, but also to transfer the knowledge created during the mobilities into the circular realm of Istanbul. It is funded by the EELISA 2nd Call for Joint Inter-Institutional Activities in Communities.

Built upon the success of the previous events, “String Figures of the Waste Terrain” is an attempt to map the advocative means to circularity within everyday life through co-fabulating the waste terrain of the Mediterranean. By accumulating the transdisciplinary knowledge of its participants, the workshop aims to build up a nebulous – an unpredictable guide to roam within the wasteful terrains of the Mediterranean where waste has multitudes of meanings and demands both anthropocenic and archeological inspections. Thus, inspired by the plural meanings of waste [a(r)tık-il rifiuto- los desperdicios-deşeuri-der abfall], the workshop speculatively fabulates the poetic within the many connotations of waste.

The Mediterranean, in this sense, has a particular significance as being one of the leading routes for this never ending mobilities of meanings of waste. “The history of humankind could be told through the history of producing waste” once said, thus String Figures of the Waste Terrain is a call to collectively reimagine the various connotations and meanings of waste by tracing the production and consumption narratives – mapping the uncircular. This 5-day event aims to discuss novel methodologies and mappings of circularity by following the waste trails with a particular spatial focus of associated localities/ terrains and looking at different anthropocentric formations as a medium of negotiation.

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11-15 September 2023

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