How public space can be regenerated by instant, temporary assemble for justice seek?
Galatasaray, Istiklal Street are the contested public spaces in Istanbul that both spaces are for demonstration, public appearance but also under full urban surveillance.
The initiatives of justice keeper are revealing the stories with the families of workers who died under bad working conditions. In last year, dozens of workers in several industries and recently in Ostim, Ivedik (industrial zone areas) died in work accidents.
The initiative wants not only take the public attention to the slow and ignorant process of judicial bureaucracy of government, but also create new tactics of actions, demonstration in public space. Each Sunday, they gather themselves in Galatasaray square, invite a journalist. The event takes one hour. The journalist and families are speaking about the process and juridical stage of what happened.
The Justice Seekers is an example of a public gesture of how a political action in urban space could be meaningful and can transforms the public space, a square as a performative collective medium itself; how to share urban space collectively as temporary singularities and co-exists at the same time.
Galatasaray, Istiklal Street are the contested public spaces in Istanbul that both spaces are for demonstration, public appearance but also under full urban surveillance.
The initiatives of justice keeper are revealing the stories with the families of workers who died under bad working conditions. In last year, dozens of workers in several industries and recently in Ostim, Ivedik (industrial zone areas) died in work accidents.
The initiative wants not only take the public attention to the slow and ignorant process of judicial bureaucracy of government, but also create new tactics of actions, demonstration in public space. Each Sunday, they gather themselves in Galatasaray square, invite a journalist. The event takes one hour. The journalist and families are speaking about the process and juridical stage of what happened.
The Justice Seekers is an example of a public gesture of how a political action in urban space could be meaningful and can transforms the public space, a square as a performative collective medium itself; how to share urban space collectively as temporary singularities and co-exists at the same time.
17.06.2012, Galatasaray, Istanbul
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