This Blended Intensive Programme spans half an academic year, and it is designed to be expanded in future editions at different locations, bringing together students from two different university cycles undergraduate and postgraduate. The project aims to develop an interdisciplinary approach to the protection of the Istanbul Landwalls and their transfer to a sustainable future. The workshop will address issues such as the digitalization of historical architectural and archaeological heritage, supporting it with gamification methods, addressing the LandWalls at environmental, urban, and landscape scales, evaluating architectural elements within the perspective of a circular economy, and strengthening the Land Walls as a threshold in historical, functional and periodic contexts. This comprehensive event aims to strengthen international cooperation while offering new approaches for the preservation and transfer of an important cultural heritage site such as the Istanbul Land Walls to the future.

Derya Güleç Özer, PhD, Istanbul Technical University