This walk, conceived and conducted by Nazlı Tümerdem, is an expedition to the near, one that we will be performing in the territory where the ETH ONA building is located. Our aim will be to employ critical walking as an ethnographic and artistic method by going out of the classroom and into the field. Our collective walk will start at the Fokushalle. We will then follow a riparian route along the arms of the Glatt river. In order to explore this (un)familiar landscape, we will slow down to our own walking pace. The walk will conclude in Leutschenpark.

Nazlı Tümerdem is an architect and researcher. She received her bachelor’s degree (2008) from Istanbul Technical University and her master’s degree (2011) from Istanbul Bilgi University. In 2016, she was part of the curatorial team of the Turkish Pavilion for the 15th Architecture Biennial of Venice. She completed her PhD entitled “Istanbul Walkabouts: A Critical Walking Study of Northern Istanbul” (2018) at Istanbul Technical University. In September 2019, she joined the ETH Zurich D-ARCH Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning as a postdoctoral researcher with the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship. She continues to perform critical walks in northern Istanbul and other locations. She is also part of the curatorial and editorial team for The Great Repair project–the current exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin and the two accompanying ARCH+ issues.