The Project

Following the protests in Turkey 2013 the international online platform InEnArt is developing StreetWalking, a critical examination of urban transformation in Istanbul and Berlin.

StreetWalking is a reflection of the urban methamorphosis based on topics like culture, politics, social values, gentrification and commercialisation of the society.

StreetWalking aims to become an unique platform for the demands of the inhabitants of Istanbul and Berlin during an urban transformation process which normally don't consider the needs of the population.

StreetWalking will become a collective narration through the common use of mobile communication devices such as smartphones: residents of different districts in Istanbul and Berlin will develop new forms of expression in workshops to discover their environment in pictures. These movies will be published finally in real-time using the mobile devices.

The workshop participants learn how to use mobile  communication devices to express their ideas, thoughts and needs about the current urban transformation and collect them via the StreetWalking app as a global archive.

This mobile archive shall engage further debates and shall expand the knowledge about city planing, designed environment, urbanization and the needs and demands of its residents.

Become involved, participate into the workshops and create your own video about your environment.

The App

For StreetWalking we are developing a special app for mobile devices. With this app you can shoot, upload and watch the videos about urban transformation and express your demands.

A separate mapping extension lets locate your video in the city and helps other people to find the place of shooting.

A comment section lets you enter additional information and offers the opportunity to start a critical debate about the transformation you captured with your device.

We Need your Help

We are producing the project independently, on our own responsibility and with a support from people and organizations from all over the region. This gives us the freedom to realize our project in a way we feel is authentic and gives the participants the opportunity to express their demands independently from commercial interests.

Unfortunately this won't cover the costs so we need your help to make our idea become real because every cent that we come closer to the aim will be used to pay our fees.

Your generous contribution will aid StreetWalking in many ways and will go towards:

• access to experts
• 16 workshops in Istanbul and Berlin with local residents
• debate forum about urbanization and the demand for the citizen in Istanbul and Berlin
  
• location fees and licenses
• software development and impelmentation
• travel expenses and transportation requirements
• video editing
• content management

A small part of the aimed $25,000 goal will be redirected to local residents. 10% of the $25,000 will be given to the local residents and used according to their needs and wishes. The spending of this amount will be documented with video on the StreetWalking site by the InEnArt team as well.

We prepared some simple, nice and exclusive perks for you. You will become part of the project, becoming a member of StreetWalking or getting your name on our online platform with more then 20.000 unique visitors monthly or you can take part in our workshops.

What you Get

If you consider to take part in our workshops we will give you a first view what it means to make a video with new hardware like smartphones as well as an introduction how a video will be made. Beginning with the preproduction to the production and in the end the postproduction.

Further you can get an idea how you learn seeing urban transformation in cities critically. It will offer you the possiblity to work with several artists and specialists and to create your own movie visually and auditory in an independet way.

As well as we want to give you another perspective how mobile communications equipment can be used in a sociocritical and artistic way to capture your ideas, thoughts and needs to current urban transformations in todays cities. So in the end we all create movies and its online archive showing and analizing urban development from a social point of view for the people.

Please take a look at the right site to see the exciting perks for your contribution.

Why is StreetWalking Important

Against the background that urban development and transformation often ignores the needs and demands of its residents, StreetWalking will contribute to a social sustainability in many areas:

• improved access to information
• practice to express urban demands
  
• unregulated exchange of needs
• maintenance of cultural diversity and a feeling for its worth
• location-independent linkage of information
  
• increased participation in social decision-making processes
• enhancement of developing socio cultural resources
• technological increase in efficiency by using existing open-source-software
  
• invested resources will be made available permanently to the net community
  

Who We Are

InEnArt is a critical forum – with its headquarter in Istanbul -exploring new styles of narrations in cultural expression and opening a critical view on cultural phenomena. The uprising around Gezi Park in Istanbul was one of the focuses in 2013. As the struggle in Gaza escalated 2014 InEnArt started to examine the characteristics of culture and architecture that systematically makes it a political weapon specifically in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

The Team:

Asena Hayal - project coordinator StreetWalking

After her study in 2011 at the İstanbul Yildiz Technical University, department Combined Arts, Asena worked as an assistant for photography and exhibition management. During her career she took part in many national and international exhibitions and taught in workshops.

• Sabine Küper-Büsch - chief editor InEnArt, concept and workshop instructor
  
• Thomas Büsch - project manager InEnArt, concept and workshop instructor
• Artık İşler Kolektifi - video collective, workshops
  
• Tan Cemal Genç - video and animation, workshop instructor, author of Tanks and Stacks
  
• Bradley Garrett - writer, photographer, and researcher at the University of Oxford
• Stéphane Bauer - director of Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin
• Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke - artists and filmmakers, Berlin, authors of Sample Cities
  
• Markus Schmidt - video editing
  

Organizer of StreetWalking is Diyalog Dernegi,  a not-for-profit organization based in Istanbul working in the field of art and culture. Since its establishment Diyalog has been a driving force in facilitating cross-cultural collaborations and circulating art and culture globally. Special attention is on the overcoming of borders, which still exists in the culture between Turkey and other countries. Diyalog established the critical online platform InEnArt and the collaborative internet diary Sense Of Time . StreetWalking and Sense of Time are products of InEnArt and the results of the critical work of the InEnArt team with already more then 20.000 unique visitors monthly.

Other Ways You Can Help StreetWalking

If you can't afford to contribute, no sweat! But we ask one thing: Please share the campaign through your social media, your e-mail contacts, and by word of mouth!!!

Help us to grow this independent video archive dedicated to urbanization and city planing in Istanbul and Berlin.

Become involved, participate into the workshops or create your own video about your environment. Dont miss it, tell us what bothers you in your district.