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Rural Futures | Future Rurals International Symposium
RURAL FUTURES | FUTURE RURALS
International Symposium
October 15–16, 2026
Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture
The rural is increasingly being declared as a ‘new common ground for humans and all nonhuman living and non-living entities,’ and highlighted as a ‘new’ space for living alongside the city—a shift that calls for reconsidering rural geographies from within their own contexts, challenging conventional views from the city to the countryside, and rethinking rural futures through new perspectives, lines of inquiry, and unconventional models and projects. In response, the international and transdisciplinary symposium Rural Futures | Future Rurals aims to bring together ongoing studies on rural
