The international workshop "Inventory" was realized between 2nd and 9th of May 2009 as an investigation into existing forms of “agency”. Workshop participants included students and recent graduates from Staedelschule – Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Frankfurt am Main), Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (Istanbul) and local actors from the neighborhood. Six mixed groups were formed, each focusing on one generic programme of a formal “cultural institution”. In the neighbourhood, these six themes became investigative frames to detect visible and invisible, formal and informal, stable and instable models of “agency”:
(1) Events (2) Collection (3) Archive (4) Communication (5) Library (6) Office
A final report was presented in a public forum in Platform Garanti and, in Turkish, in the “Beautification Committee” of Gülsuyu-Gülensu - a key local NGO. Both presentations were followed by public discussions.
