A growing response to the poly-crisis in planning is futuring: practices that create futures by exploring how today’s challenges might evolve and - not least - what kinds of urban futures we desire. In recent workshops of the TG Urban Futures, and during the AESOP 2025 Congress in Istanbul, the question “Who says future?” sparked rich discussions, touching on an equally pressing question: “How do we say future?” The way we envision and narrate futures is shaped not only by who is involved, but also by which types of tools and approaches we use, from which disciplines they originate, and for what purposes we use them.
To work on these and related questions, we are curently preparing a workshop that will take place in Istanbul, running for three days on 2-4 February 2026 and hosted by Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University, Urban Regional Planning Department (https://msgsu.edu.tr/). Istanbul's city centre was selected as the local case for the workshop, and “The rising sea level” in the face of the climate change was chosen as the topic to guide the discussions.
Further details will be announced soon - but safe the date already!
