The AESOP TG Public Spaces and Urban Cultures and Ozyegin University held a very productive meeting in Istanbul (Nov 20-23, 2013) under the working theme, Becoming Local.

PSUC Coordination team would like to thank to all of the local committee members, particularly to the Dean of Faculty of Architecture, Orhan Hacihasanoglu and hard-working coordinator Burcu Yigit Turan for this impressive and successful event. Additionally, we also thank to Murat Sahin, Ayse Koksal who host 40 attendees through fieldwork and exciting presentations; Ozlem Ozkal for event graphic design and website; Naz Beykan for the event blog.

Finally, we also express our attitudes to the keynote speakers Ipek Yada Akpinar, Sophie Watson, Cristina Cerulli  and all the meeting attendees whose work highlighted the passion for working on public spaces all around the world in so many different disciplines.

For more information about the meeting, please visit the following link: http://www.becominglocalistanbul.org