Ali Matay participated in World Cities Biennial

Ali Matay, Visual Designer, Lecturer at Faculty of Communication Cinema and Digital Media, Stefano Pugliese, Architect, Lecturer at Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, and Güven Incirlioğlu, Artist and Writer were invited as speakers for the Urban Thinker Campus representing the city of Izmir within the first World Cities Bienal (https://utc.wepush.org/countlesscities/index.html) held at Farm Cultural Park, in Favara,  Italy (https://www.farmculturalpark.com/).

The talk and exhibition took place in the  frame of The Urban Thinkers Campus Countless Cities, promoted by Farm Cultural Park and PUSH under the umbrella of UN Habitat.

The event introduced the opening of the namesake biennial that will host in Favara over 20 cities from all over the world to reflect on issues related to Sustainable Development and the New Urban Agenda and will host exhibitions from 29th of June 27th of October 2019.

 The talk introduced the exhibition ‘Territories of Transitions // Unfoulding Boundaries in Izmir’: the exhibition curated and designed by Ali, Güven and Stefano, narrates certain territories of the contemporary condition of the city of Izmir in the frame of wider Mediterranean dynamics related with the bienal themes.