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Democratic innovation through recognition focuses on inclusivity in decision-making and policymaking processes. Diverse participants are convened in different and original ways in order to include multiple perspectives in urban sustainability efforts.
She is a peace worker from Ankara, Turkey. She began her career in journalism and in 2013 she covered the Gezi Park Movement as a freelance journalist in alternative media and international press. She was a graduate degree student in Peace and Conflict Studies Hacettepe University’s Istanbul branch from 2014 to 2017, where she was taught, among others, by Johan Galtung, Jorgen Johansen, Stellan Vinthagen, Oliver Richmond, Norman Finkelstein, Joshua Weiss, Wolfgang Dietrich, Gal Harmat, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, Zeki Ergaş, Tatsushi Arai and Amr Khairy Abdalla. Hacettepe University shut down the department in 2015 but she obtained a graduate degree with the thesis subject being ‘Identity-based Conflicts in between Resistance Groups during the Gezi Movement’. Since graduating from Hacettepe University in 2017, she was able to gain experience, inspire transformers and realise projects. As a trained peace-worker, she has been invited to present new ideas at international conferences and has intervened in interpersonal or intergroup conflicts as well as at the established organizational level. In her academic and practical approaches, she works for the creation of new social structures and implementation of state-of-the-art scientific solutions. In Wuppertal she founded the concept of nature-based micro-level peacebuilding methods that can be integrated into the real world. She cares deeply about a shared understanding of mutual respect. Above all, it is also important to her to take responsibility for future generations.  


This page is part of an ongoing, open-ended online collaborative database, which collects relevant approaches that can be used by city-makers to tackle unsustainability and injustice in cities. It is based mainly on knowledge generated in EU-funded projects and touches on fast changing fields. As such, this page makes no claims of authoritative completeness and welcomes your suggestions.
Burcu’s “Urban Gardening Peace Project” won second place in the Audience Award at Go Volunteer Awards 2021, and third place at “Social Innovation” category. She was selected as a young scientist of the Right Livelihood Campus Bonn in 2021. She is an urbanA Fellow https://urban-arena.eu/ and Istanbul Development Agency Climate Adaptation and Climate Justice Working Group Member.


==General introduction of approach==
* 2018 - AFK “"Welches Wissen(-)schafft Praxis?",presented “Identity-based Conflicts in between Newly-formed Resistance Groups during the Gezi Movement”Berlin. https://bundesstiftung-friedensforschung.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/180411_Bericht_mit_Cover_AFkNachwuchs.pdf
Democratic innovation through recognition builds inclusivity in decision- and policy-making in the promotion of equality and justice in urban sustainability.  It does so mainly in two ways: procedurally and methodologically with implications for equality.  By directly engaging citizens in city budgeting processes (“participatory budgeting”) and in generating scientific knowledge (“civic science”), for example, diverse perspectives and experiences are drawn in from the start.  An important aspect of democratic innovation, therefore, is recognition. In this context, roles traditionally assigned to experts and/or technocrats are transferred to citizens and diverse community members.  Participatory and action research methodologies are often embedded in the approaches to democratic innovation that also invite citizens themselves to design and conduct meaningful research with the aim of improving the lives of subordinated or historically excluded groups (e.g., [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/320136/reporting/ SocIEtY], [http://www.citispyce.eu/ CITISPYCE]), as well as confronting and transforming existing power dynamics (e.g., [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/96441/reporting/en/ TRANSLATE DEMOCRACY]). For example, the approaches taken in [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/320136/reporting/ SocIEtY] and [http://www.citispyce.eu/ CITISPYCE] projects draw important attention to garnering and integrating youth perspectives more in related political processes through forums of engagement that feed into the policymaking process. In this context, new perspectives emerge by tackling different issues ranging from restorative justice (see [http://www.alternativeproject.eu/ ALTERNATIVE]) to air quality (see [http://www.citi-sense.eu/ CITISENSE]).
* 2018 - British Library “Non-violent Scholar Activism in the 21st Century” Conference, presented “Scholar-Activism within the Gezi Movement” London.https://www.scholaractivism.com/
 
* 2018 - London School of Economics “Revolution and Resistance “Conference, London.
==Shapes, sizes and applications==
* 2019 - CSCP “The Avantgardenist Social Transformation Project” Presentation, Wuppertal.
Democrative innovative approaches establish diverse participatory forums predominantly applied at a small scale in multiple settings.  While some approaches (see [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/96441/reporting/en/ TRANSLATE DEMOCRACY] and [http://www.alternativeproject.eu/ ALTERNATIVE] projects) are geared toward managing conflict and tensions inherent in democratic contexts, others emphasize procedural inclusivity with practical implications for establishing goals or agenda setting (e.g, [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/99659/reporting/en/ URBANSELF]), generating knowledge (e.g., [http://www.citi-sense.eu/ CITISENSE]), and producing various outcomes such as [http://www.transitsocialinnovation.eu/content/original/Book%20covers/Local%20PDFs/185%20Participatory%20budgeting%20in%20the%20Indische%20Buurt%202015.pdf/ budgetary plans for a local municipality].  The strength of these approaches, based on the examined projects, is found in the inclusive practical applications whereby disadvantaged, subordinated, or excluded people have the opportunity to participate in meaningful forums. While some of the forums produce concrete outputs, others are more about establishing cooperative civic relationships and networks. In many cases, however, it is not clear how the various approaches and their contributions endure once the project comes to an end.  In some cases, experienced facilitators or conciliators are needed for transferability, particularly in the approaches that are directly focused on transforming conflict and power dynamics.
* 2019 - CSCP (Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production)Co-working.
 
* 2019 - Kassel University “Decolonial Alternatives to Development” Conference, Kassel.
==Relation to UrbanA themes: Urban, sustainability, and justice==
* 2019 - 19th Global Development Conference 'Knowledge for Sustainable Development: The Research–Policy Nexus.' Bonn.
Small community contexts or large convenings of a particular group (e.g., youth) generally provide the platforms for exploring and testing democratic innovation. Hence, in urban contexts, the approaches may be considered a good fit for neighborhood-size processes/projects  or for larger city-wide efforts depending on the approach. These approaches to democratic innovation address justice in different ways, but particularly touch upon procedural justice with potential implications for distributive justice (i.e., who gets what and why).   Democratic innovation promotes recognition by working with subordinated groups or challenging power dynamics through recognition in a way that either directly impacts sustainability, as in the case of Citizen Observations (COs) - also known as civic science - or creates potential for more democratic sustainability measures by generating experiences that build on civic capacities and expectations.
* 2019 - Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities Meeting Rotterdam.
 
* 2020 - Tag des Guten Lebens Wuppertal Member of Advisory Council.https://www.guteslebenwuppertal.de/beirat-2/
==Narrative of change==
* 2020 - Urban gardening Peace Project founder in Wuppertal. www.urban-peace.org
It is well known that policymaking tends to be driven by powerful special interests.  Democratic innovation creates openings in the dynamics of policy-making that is often driven by special interests and lobbies and, as a result, tends to exclude certain social groups. Through a bundle of approaches that fall under the democratic innovation umbrella, formerly excluded perspectives and contributions can emerge and directly impact decision- and policy-making.  The expectation, and proven potential of these approaches, is that through shifting the power dynamics that sustain exclusionary mechanisms within democratic polities, more socially just outcomes may be achieved. This will also have implication for advancing urban sustainability goal.
* 2020 - Deutsche Welle Article https://www.dw.com/de/gem%C3%BCseanbau-migration-wuppertal-permakultur-perspektive-gesellschaft-schrebergarten-klimawandel/a-53898345
 
* 2020 - Friedrich Engels: Die Aktualität eines Klassikers - The Timelines of a Historic Figure Wuppertal.
==Transformative potential==
* 2020 - Member of Wuppertal Institute Solidarity Platform.
The different approaches covered here each have an inherent aspect that builds the potential for change.  They do this in several ways: 1) making inclusivity central to governance approaches 2) opening procedural opportunities in participatory processes and 3) engagement in a common endeavor that is about life satisfaction and quality, and 4) dealing with conflict/tensions or power dynamics.  In particular, the [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/96441/reporting/en/ TRANSLATE DEMOCRACY] project directly addresses power dynamics in which "misunderstandings and linguistic difference can become a starting point for a politics of translation that fosters a more inclusive and effective decision making, and strengthens social movements and local urban democracy in multilingual societies."<ref>TRANSLATE DEMOCRACY https://cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/96441/reporting/en/</ref>  By opening up these opportunities and (political) spaces, transformation can occur as power dynamics and institutions are brought into question. As a result, not only the process but the very content of policy can be contested and rearticulated.
* 2020 - UrbanA Community Conversations “An Avantgardenist Approach: Creating Peace Gardens in the Urban Realm” https://medium.com/urban-arenas-for-sustainable-and-just-cities/an-avantgardenist-approach-creating-peace-gardens-in-the-urban-realm-17f8aaddaa9f Presentation.
 
* 2020 - Wuppertal Institute “Post Corona: Wege in die neue Normalität„ https://www.academia.edu/44131818/Burcu_Talk_DE_ Presentation.
==Illustrations of approaches==
* 2020 - UN SDG Action Zone.
 
* 2020 - 9th European Conference on Sustainable Cities and Towns, Mannheim.
Democratic innovation approaches share a common methodology characterised by recognition in which particular segments of society take on new roles and are engaged in decision- or policy-making processes or forums that are traditionally predominated by others, such as experts (or adults). It is this aspect that makes them particularly innovative. Below are some examples of implemented approaches based on three different projects.
* 2020 - "Diversitätssensibilität in der Kulturpolitik" and "Eine Nachhaltige Kulturpraxis" Web-Talks.
 
* 2020 - Peace and Climate Change UN Workshop.
 
* 2020 - WZ Article https://www.wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/wie-eine-wuppertalerin-von-der-journalistin-zur-friedensgaertnerin-wurde_aid-54395147
[http://www.citi-sense.eu/ CITISENSE] developed “citizens’ observatories” to engage citizens in environmental monitoring and information gathering through Earth Observation applications. Citizens engaged in science for the purposes of addressing sustainability issues is an innovative approach that circumvents that idea that science is strictly the realm of experts. It recognizes that laypersons can also contribute in the process of garnering important knowledge as part of the process of making decisions and policies. Citizens’ observatories” (COs) were employed in the project [http://www.citi-sense.eu/ CITISENSE] to empower citizens to contribute to and participate in environmental governance, to enable them to support and influence community and societal priorities and associated decision making. In this process, a community-based environmental monitoring and information system using innovative and novel Earth Observation applications was developed, tested and demonstrated. In [http://www.citi-sense.eu/ CITISENSE], citizens gathered air quality data through sensors that provided real-time information on air quality in Barcelona, Belgrade, Edinburgh, Haifa, Ljubljana, Oslo, Ostrava, Vienna. The data was subsequently made available through widgets and mobile phone applications allowing people to comment and further share information. While there were some challenges in the project associated with, for example, data privacy, ethical and security issues, and scientific standards such as quality and reliability, the CO approach could increase awareness about environmental risks at minimal cost. Key aspects were identified as follows: “Based upon the review of different ongoing COs and of CO-related programmes in the environmental domain, we have identified key elements and qualities which are essential for a CO programme: (i) Be a unique virtual place to gather and share data from a variety of sources: novel sensor-technologies, open environmental data from public and national sources, and personal per- ceptions and textual/graphical contribution; and (ii) Extract and make use of relevant citizens-related data and provide multimodal services for citizens, communities and authorities.”<ref> Liu et al.: A conceptual approach to a citizens’ observatory – supporting community-based environmental governance. Environmental Health 2014 13:107, pp. 10.</ref> Also check [[Crowdsourcing]].
* 2020 - Daring Cities : Driving the Green Recovery and Redesign.
 
* 2020 - Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities Meeting Barcelona.
Recognizing the important role of young disadvantaged people in policymaking brings in new perspectives that promote equality and quality of life from the perspective of a formally excluded segment of society. The project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/320136/reporting/ SocIEtY] developed innovative ways for specifically enhancing the participation of disadvantaged youth in policymaking. This project established a forum for allowing young people to articulate their concerns and needs regarding quality of life issues that could be shared with stakeholders, politicians and non-governmental entities. The project specifically, “explores how young people aged 15-24 live in different European countries today; and examines what can be done to create social and institutional opportunities which will better enable them to live the lives they have reason to value”. Also check [[Culture for empowerment]].
* 2020 - Minority Protection and Ethnic Group Rights in Central and Central Eastern Europe.
 
* 2020 - GLF Biodiversity Digital Conference: One World - One Health.
[http://www.citispyce.eu/ CITISPYCE], in a similar effort, also engaged disadvantaged and marginalized youth from major European cities in forums supported by socially innovative resources and technologies to assist policymakers across local, national and EU scales to address inequality.
* 2020 - "Critical Gender and Diversity Knowledge.Challenges and Prospects" Conference.  
 
* 2020 - Pina Bausch Theatre Under Construction Project Participant "Art and Peace-building" https://under-construction-wuppertal.de/media?fbclid=IwAR197w6jjjPeCitiT_2td79c422GTEFKwibUCEfccaBfopCF1uagq0dAdH4#type,archiv-der-traeume,1
==References==
* 2020 - Malmö University, presented “Art and Peacebuilding Methods”.
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* 2021 - Digitainable forum: Mindful use of Digitalization and Artificial Intelligence (D&AI) for the SDGs.
 
* 2021 - Co-designing Our Cities Conference.
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* 2021 - Digital education & Training,Mannheim.
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* 2021 - The German Symposium 2021.
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* 2021 - Essay by Burcu Eke-Schneider 'Der Sand' Vielleicht - page 11 https://die-wueste-lebt.org/der-sand/
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[[Category: Co-learning and knowledge brokerage]]
* 2021 - From Science to Practice: The Role of Research in Tackling COVID-19 and Achieving the SDGs.
[[Category: TRANSLATE DEMOCRACY]]
* 2021 - Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities Meeting Berlin.
[[Category: CITISENSE]]
* 2021 - What does a just transition to solve climate change by 2030 look like? Drift Webinar.
[[Category: SocIEtY]]
* 2021 - Wuppertal Institute: Platform for Neighbourhood Solidarity: Using Community-based Approaches to Build Pandemie-resilient Neighbourhoods, International Peace Worker and Researcher,https://www.schader-stiftung.de/fileadmin/content/Plattform_fuer_Quartierssolidaritaet_-_Folien_zum_Vortrag_von_Stelzer.pdf
* 2021 - New York Institute of Technology: "School of Architecture and Design" -R-cubed Symposium and Workshop.
* 2021 - 'European Social Economy Summit' 2021
* 2021 - RLC/ZEF Bonn Workshop, Mobilization for Change:Ensuring Rights and Promoting Justice for Marginalized People:"Micro-level Peace-building Methods for Sustainable and Just Cities" Scientific Research Presentation.
* 2021 - Kulturell sensibler und inklusiver Journalismus bei Can TV. Ich habe einen Vortrag darüber gehalten, wie wir mit unserem kulturellen Wissen am Transformationsprozess nachhaltiger und gerechter Städte teilnehmen können. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=211058807350889&ref=watch_permalink
* 2021 - "What's going on in Citizenship Education in Europe?" NECE Campus
* 2021 - NECE CAMPUS ttps://www.facebook.com/NECE.network/posts/join-the-nececampus-thursday-1st-july-0300-0335-pm-cet-presentation-a-micro-leve/986661605426529/
* 2021 - Yol TV Interview, Transformation and Cultural Participation for a Common Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjd50lv6RGs
* 2021 - Federal Conference of Municipal Development Policy Together. Fair. Global. Sustainable.Agenda 2030 - Communities Shape the Future Online event from June 14 to 16, 2021
* 2021 - Swiss Sociological Association Congress Social Justice in Times of Uncertainty : "A Micro-level Peacebuilding Method for Sustainable and Just Cities" Presentation.https://sociocongress2021.ch/
* 2021 - 17th Development Dialogue Conference -The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
* 2021 - International Degrowth Conference 'Caring Communities for Radical Change "Micro-level Peacebuilding Method for Sustainable and Just Cities:Peace Garden for Alternative Food Practice" Presentation,Hague.https://www.degrowth.info/en/the-hague-2021/
* 2021 - Georg Arnhold Summer Conference on “The Environmental Crisis and Education” "Micro-level Peacebuilding Methods"http://www.gei.de/stipendien/georg-arnhold-programm/summer-conference.html
* 2021 - Peace Garden nominated and selected as a new eco-education model at NECE Campus "Networking European Citizenship Education" Platform which will be transferred to the NECE Conference 2021 in Brussels.https://www.nece.eu/campus/
* 2021 - Nominated as one of 3 finalist the category Social Innovation at the German Volunteer Awards 2021 https://volunteerawards.de/
* 2022 - Ecocity World Summit 2021 "Science to Practice : Micro-level Peacebuilding Methods for Sustainable and Just Cities" Presentation, Rotterdam.https://ecocity-summit.com/
* 2022 - Istanbul Development Agency Working Group Member - Climate Adaptation and Climate Justice https://ipa.istanbul/iklim-platformu-ilk-toplantisini-gerceklestirdi/
* 2022 - T7 Social Cohesion Task Force Member
* 2022 - Interreligious Dialogue for a Sustainable Future Workshop - https://diasporanrw.net/termin/online-workshop-nachhaltigkeit-und-interreligioeser-dialog/
https://www.forum-fuer-soziale-innovation.de/termin/?tpage=online-workshop-nachhaltigkeit-und-interreligioeser-dialog
* 2022 - WZ Article about Intercultural Living and Sustainability https://www.wz.de/nrw/wuppertal/online-workshop-in-wuppertal-interkulturelles-leben-und-nachhaltigkeit_aid-66363097#
* 2022 - Member of Global research and action network for an eco-social contract https://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BE6B5/(httpNews)/86445ADED10EBD0B8025877B00371493?OpenDocument

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She is a peace worker from Ankara, Turkey. She began her career in journalism and in 2013 she covered the Gezi Park Movement as a freelance journalist in alternative media and international press. She was a graduate degree student in Peace and Conflict Studies Hacettepe University’s Istanbul branch from 2014 to 2017, where she was taught, among others, by Johan Galtung, Jorgen Johansen, Stellan Vinthagen, Oliver Richmond, Norman Finkelstein, Joshua Weiss, Wolfgang Dietrich, Gal Harmat, Kai Frithjof Brand-Jacobsen, Zeki Ergaş, Tatsushi Arai and Amr Khairy Abdalla. Hacettepe University shut down the department in 2015 but she obtained a graduate degree with the thesis subject being ‘Identity-based Conflicts in between Resistance Groups during the Gezi Movement’. Since graduating from Hacettepe University in 2017, she was able to gain experience, inspire transformers and realise projects. As a trained peace-worker, she has been invited to present new ideas at international conferences and has intervened in interpersonal or intergroup conflicts as well as at the established organizational level. In her academic and practical approaches, she works for the creation of new social structures and implementation of state-of-the-art scientific solutions. In Wuppertal she founded the concept of nature-based micro-level peacebuilding methods that can be integrated into the real world. She cares deeply about a shared understanding of mutual respect. Above all, it is also important to her to take responsibility for future generations.

Burcu’s “Urban Gardening Peace Project” won second place in the Audience Award at Go Volunteer Awards 2021, and third place at “Social Innovation” category. She was selected as a young scientist of the Right Livelihood Campus Bonn in 2021. She is an urbanA Fellow https://urban-arena.eu/ and Istanbul Development Agency Climate Adaptation and Climate Justice Working Group Member. 

Neue Formen des Dialogs –für einen friedlichen, gerechten und nachhaltigen Wandel!
  • 2021 - From Science to Practice: The Role of Research in Tackling COVID-19 and Achieving the SDGs.
  • 2021 - Urban Arenas for Sustainable and Just Cities Meeting Berlin.
  • 2021 - What does a just transition to solve climate change by 2030 look like? Drift Webinar.
  • 2021 - Wuppertal Institute: Platform for Neighbourhood Solidarity: Using Community-based Approaches to Build Pandemie-resilient Neighbourhoods, International Peace Worker and Researcher,https://www.schader-stiftung.de/fileadmin/content/Plattform_fuer_Quartierssolidaritaet_-_Folien_zum_Vortrag_von_Stelzer.pdf
  • 2021 - New York Institute of Technology: "School of Architecture and Design" -R-cubed Symposium and Workshop.
  • 2021 - 'European Social Economy Summit' 2021
  • 2021 - RLC/ZEF Bonn Workshop, Mobilization for Change:Ensuring Rights and Promoting Justice for Marginalized People:"Micro-level Peace-building Methods for Sustainable and Just Cities" Scientific Research Presentation.
  • 2021 - Kulturell sensibler und inklusiver Journalismus bei Can TV. Ich habe einen Vortrag darüber gehalten, wie wir mit unserem kulturellen Wissen am Transformationsprozess nachhaltiger und gerechter Städte teilnehmen können. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=211058807350889&ref=watch_permalink
  • 2021 - "What's going on in Citizenship Education in Europe?" NECE Campus
  • 2021 - NECE CAMPUS ttps://www.facebook.com/NECE.network/posts/join-the-nececampus-thursday-1st-july-0300-0335-pm-cet-presentation-a-micro-leve/986661605426529/
  • 2021 - Yol TV Interview, Transformation and Cultural Participation for a Common Future https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yjd50lv6RGs
  • 2021 - Federal Conference of Municipal Development Policy Together. Fair. Global. Sustainable.Agenda 2030 - Communities Shape the Future Online event from June 14 to 16, 2021
  • 2021 - Swiss Sociological Association Congress Social Justice in Times of Uncertainty : "A Micro-level Peacebuilding Method for Sustainable and Just Cities" Presentation.https://sociocongress2021.ch/
  • 2021 - 17th Development Dialogue Conference -The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
  • 2021 - International Degrowth Conference 'Caring Communities for Radical Change "Micro-level Peacebuilding Method for Sustainable and Just Cities:Peace Garden for Alternative Food Practice" Presentation,Hague.https://www.degrowth.info/en/the-hague-2021/
  • 2021 - Georg Arnhold Summer Conference on “The Environmental Crisis and Education” "Micro-level Peacebuilding Methods"http://www.gei.de/stipendien/georg-arnhold-programm/summer-conference.html
  • 2021 - Peace Garden nominated and selected as a new eco-education model at NECE Campus "Networking European Citizenship Education" Platform which will be transferred to the NECE Conference 2021 in Brussels.https://www.nece.eu/campus/
  • 2021 - Nominated as one of 3 finalist the category Social Innovation at the German Volunteer Awards 2021 https://volunteerawards.de/
  • 2022 - Ecocity World Summit 2021 "Science to Practice : Micro-level Peacebuilding Methods for Sustainable and Just Cities" Presentation, Rotterdam.https://ecocity-summit.com/
  • 2022 - Istanbul Development Agency Working Group Member - Climate Adaptation and Climate Justice https://ipa.istanbul/iklim-platformu-ilk-toplantisini-gerceklestirdi/
  • 2022 - T7 Social Cohesion Task Force Member
  • 2022 - Interreligious Dialogue for a Sustainable Future Workshop - https://diasporanrw.net/termin/online-workshop-nachhaltigkeit-und-interreligioeser-dialog/

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