lab for forensics offers a space to adapt, develop and embed methodologies for forensic investigations on different rights violations in Turkey. In partnership with Forensic Architecture and Forensis, this lab seeks to tailor existing and new methodologies to Turkey’s political and social context in close collaboration with local advocates and experts, grassroots movements and affected communities.

lab for futures develops methodologies, frameworks, and tools for constructing alternative futures in contexts where authoritarian governance constrains communities and the civil society. Primarily through collective imagination as a radical form of political practice, the lab explores how collective imagination can generate strategies for social transformation and resistance to repressive power structures.

lab for civic space serves as a hub for rights-based initiatives and reclaim civic space in Turkey and beyond, building on the lived experience of rights defenders. At the intersection of human rights, gender equality, and cross-border solidarity, this lab brings together activists, scholars, journalists, and civil society actors to foster dialogue, and collaboration in increasingly repressive environments.

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