At the 2025 Ankara Urbanism Biennial, we invite you to rebuild the city from its neighborhoods together with the people of those neighborhoods—through the themes of neighborhoods, residents, views on the neighborhood, and perspectives from the neighborhood—with the aim of raising awareness, fostering dialogue, facilitating knowledge exchange, and developing applicable project proposals. The Biennial events will begin with an opening at METU on October 13, 2025, and conclude with the "Neighborhoods, Residents" gathering on October 19. Throughout this week, workshops, talks, exhibitions, and documentary screenings will aim to make collective intelligence at the neighborhood scale visible, and to bring together local experiences with international knowledge.

With the support of the Embassy of Spain, renowned urbanist Prof. Salvador Rueda will share Barcelona's superblock-oriented urbanization experience with Ankara, while Anne Vial, expert of the EcoQuartier Program supported by the Embassy of France, will open a discussion on the tools and applicability of the sustainable neighborhood model. Ankara's last significant growth experience, Eryaman, will be revisited in terms of planning and social organization. The exhibition "Toward the 30th Year of Habitat II" will invite reflection on the legacy of the 1996 Istanbul Habitat II Conference through the lens of today's perspectives on the right to the city and inclusivity. A colloquium will be held on memory, participation, and contemporary museology for the Squatter Housing Museum to be established in Ankara. The documentary "The Three Faces of Ankara: Kalle, Tuzluçayır, Ayrancı", produced by the SolFaSol Cooperative, will shed light on the city's multi-layered social geography.

The Biennial will also be enriched with special events where books dedicated to urbanists and architects such as Ali Cengizkan, Ayda Eraydın, Murat Güvenç, Semahat Özdemir, and Ali Türel will be introduced to readers, alongside a keynote speech by urbanist Akın Atauz. The closing "Residents" meeting is expected to bring together participants from all over Turkey, including Kazım Kurt, Mayor of Odunpazarı. Having dedicated his life to Turkish urbanism and democracy, Prof. Dr. İlhan Tekeli will personally attend and contribute to all events. At the Biennial, we invite you to gather the voices rising from Ankara's neighborhoods, and through collective thinking and discussion, to develop feasible projects together.