This year's Learning Commons conversation, hosted by Betül Aksu, invites guest Zeyno Pekünlü and questions from the SoC community sustaining learning commons internationally, and ways to initiate multiple research cells (satellites) as self-organized learning commons.
Zeyno Pekünlü is an artist based in Istanbul. She is part of several activist initiatives focusing on commoning practices and solidarity spaces in Istanbul. She is currently running the Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Programme at Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, IKSV, Istanbul. She is co-founder of KIRIK, an initiative for people and topics in the cracks. She is part of the editorial board of e-journal Red Thread and member of IRI (Institute of Radical Imagination).
Scanning a range of issues, from the construction of maleness and femaleness as gender roles, to questioning knowledge and its distribution, her works aim to decipher power that encompasses the intimate and the social simultaneously. She is one of the petitioners of ‘Academics for Peace’ and she is part of Istanbul Solidarity Academy.