This seminar explores urban mobility transitions in Istanbul, focusing on governance dynamics and stakeholder perspectives. It identifies a critical gap between preferred futures, which emphasize sustainability, and expected trajectories, which tend to follow more technocentric pathways.
The talk examines how governance structures, power asymmetries, and institutional constraints shape these diverging pathways. It further reflects on the implications of this gap for governing urban transitions towards more inclusive and sustainability-oriented outcomes.
Speaker: Begüm Aydın, Ph.D. – Researcher in Sustainability Transitions
Moderator: Prof. Aslı Taşbaşı – Director, Sustainable Economic Systems Research Laboratory
Date: May 13th, 2026, Wednesday, 10:30 a.m.
Place: Şile Campus, D/K-203