You are cordially invited to the lecture Rural Landscapes in Transition: What Cultural Geography Reveals by Dr. Esra Ekşi Balcı (Kocaeli University), organized as a part of the lecture series for NIT UHL 2025 Autumn Course, Yazılıkaya Living Lab: Adaptive Futures for Rural Heritage. 

Date: November 28, 2025, Friday

Time:  5:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Istanbul time)

The event will be online, in English. Please register for the event in advance through the link below.

Meeting link: Go here

NIT Urban Heritage Lab is an initiative of the Netherlands Institute in Turkey that investigates the role of tangible and intangible cultural heritage in achieving inclusive, circular, and sustainable cities. The fifth edition of the Urban Heritage Lab Autumn Course, Yazılıkaya Living Lab: Adaptive Futures for Rural Heritage, is organized by the Netherlands Institute in Turkey (NIT), in collaboration with Middle East Technical University (METU), and with the support of the Netherlands Consulate-General in Istanbul.