Arkistan and Urbanitiez are set up to support knowledge-exchange and collaboration between scholars, researchers and sector-professionals in the realm of the built environment. Arkistan deals with the existing, and the pleasures and offers provided by the city in its current state. Consequently the interest brought towards the buildings and structures, urban settings and life-style stands in the f
oreground of our services here. They are an indistinguishable part of learning while being on tour. Urbanitiez concentrates on what drives urban production, moving from the building to the built environment. Urbanitiez also provides frame and starting point for civil participation, or interventions through design, research and art. Itineraries and program concepts developed here focus more strongly on urbanism and the sociological aspects of the city. The 14 million inhabitant metropolis at the Bosporus provides with its vast history of architecture and planning, with its people, their culture and lifestyles, and last but not least with its current political and spatial transformations plentiful material for both approaches. Our services provided under the brand Arkistan are more strongly in demand by sector professionals while Urbanitiez has been conceptualized to adapt to the needs and inspirations brought to us by the academic and activist milieus.
