The concept of imaginary memory was derived from Andreas Huyssen's* "Urban Imaginary" concept based on the doctoral research of Dr. Hasan Işıklı. According to urban imaginary, a child, a visitor, an immigrant, or even a modern native detached from the past, who is unaware of their city's history, can imagine a memory that may have occurred by looking at photographs of a historical place or by physically interacting with it. This imagined memory may be a fiction. However, the person imagining is part of the collective memory, even connected to a global memory. Therefore, any fictional story about this interaction may reveal fragments of the forgotten memory of that place. The workshop is open to both children and adults.

*Huyssen, Andreas. 2003. Present Pasts, Urban Palimpsests and the Politics of Memory Stanford University Press, California