# A. Ege Yıldırım

> 3rd culture kid, cultural heritage, urban planning, art, life.


## Posts

- [Sürdürülebilirliğe Ait Bugünden Bazı Notlar, 20 Ağustos 2021](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/surdurulebilirlige-ait-bugunden-bazi-notlar-20-agustos-2021/)
- [Some Sustainability Notes Today, August 20, 2021](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/some-sustainability-notes-today-august-20-2021/)
- [Salgın, Ekran, Vuslat](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/salgin-ekran-vuslat/): İnsanın telefonuna bu kadar bağlı olması... Onsuz nasıl yaşıyorduk? 2000 öncesi… Bilişsel haritalarımız tamamen değişti. Beynimiz, beyin yapımız değişti vallahi…  
- [Pandemic, Screen, Reunion](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/pandemic-screen-reunion/): Being so connected to one’s phone... How did we ever live without it? Pre-2000… Our cognitive maps changed completely. I swear, our brains, our brain structures have changed.
- [Sık Uçan Yolcu](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/sik-ucan-yolcu/): Hayat nasıl gidiyor? ‘Çok şükür’… Thank God.. Gottseidank. Hayattayız. İklim değişiyor, ‘İklim Eylemi Çocuğu’ Greta hepimize önderlik ediyor ve ilgiyle izliyoruz. Duyduğumuza göre kendisi uçağa binmeyi reddediyor, ki karbon ayakizi azalsın.
- [The Frequent Flyer](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/the-frequent-flyer/): We are starting a new style here, of writing some ‘blog pieces’… Let’s see how it will go!    So how is life? ‘Çok şükür’… Thank God.. Gottseidank. We are alive. The climate is changing, Greta the Climate Action Kid is leading the world and we are following avidly.   
- [Oy ve Ötesi’ne ilişkin yeni gözlemler ve öneriler](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/oy-ve-otesine-iliskin-yeni-gozlemler-ve-oneriler/): İki gün kadar önce ‘2014 Yerel Seçiminde Sandık Müşahidi olan bir Oy ve Ötesi gönüllüsünün Güncesi’ adlı bir yazı yazdım. O yazı, seçimin hemen sonrasındaki taze izlenim ve duygular eşliğinde yazılmıştı. Aradan geçen birkaç gün içinde yaşadığımız gelişmeler ile, öncekinin yanına bazı yeni gözlemler ekleme ihtiyacı doğdu. Bunlar esasen iki başlık altında toplanıyor: Oy ve Ötesinin bizlerden istediği, ‘geleceğe yönelik öneriler’ ve bu oluşumun niteliğine dair düşünceler. 1. Geleceğe yönelik öneriler: Zaten dile getirilmeye başladı, tekrar olsa da katıldığım önerileri de dahil ederek bir sonraki seçimdeki etkinliğimizin daha başarılı geçmesi için aşağıdaki önerileri yapabilirim: –        Sürecin çok daha uzun bir döneme yayıldığın […]
- [New observations and suggestions regarding Oy ve Ötesi](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/new-observations-and-suggestions-regarding-oy-ve-otesi/): See: Text in Turkish
- [2014 Yerel Seçiminde Sandık Müşahidi olan bir Oy ve Ötesi gönüllüsünün Güncesi](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/2014-yerel-seciminde-sandik-musahidi-olan-bir-oy-ve-otesi-gonullusunun-guncesi/): Oy ve Ötesi gönüllüsü olarak Beyoğlu- Piyalepaşa’daki İTO Kadınlar Çeşmesi İlköğretim Okulunda sandık müşahitliği yaptım. Gün boyunca tuttuğum günceyi ve bazı değerlendirmelerimi paylaşıyorum…
- [Journal of a Volunteer Observer for Oy ve Ötesi in the Turkish Local Elections 2014](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/journal-of-a-volunteer-observer-for-oy-ve-otesi-in-the-turkish-local-elections-2014/): See: Text in Turkish
- [Goodbye, Eventful 2013!](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/goodbye-eventful-2013/): (Excerpts from my annual New Year Letter to friends, written shortly before the corruption scandal erupted in Turkey on December 17, 2013) As another year rolls by, let me send best wishes for a Happy New Year! May it bring you good things.. good health, love, success, fulfillment… We are all in pursuit of a good life, and in my own pursuit to this end, I have had a rather interesting, and perhaps even special, year of efforts and events. Shortly before the New Year, I moved my belongings, my cats and then myself from Abu Dhabi to Istanbul. I left behind a life built up […]
- [Elveda, Olaylı 2013!](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/elveda-olayli-2013/): Geleneksel Yeni Yıl Mektubumun 2013 edisyonundan alıntılar (İngilizce metin)
- [Emre Madran Hocamızın Anısına](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/emre-madran-hocamizin-anisina/): Emre Hoca için 14  Aralık 2013 tarihli ICOMOS Türkiye Genel Kurulu‘nda düzenlenen Anma Paneli için yazılmıştır.  Bugün Emre Madran anısına bana birkaç söz söyleme izni ve ayrıcalığı verildiği için minnettarım. Emre Hoca 26 Eylül günü, benim de doğum günüm olan gün vefat etti. Artık her yıl bu günde onu da anacağım demektir. Ölüm tarihi ne olursa olsun, hepimize çok yanlış, çok vakitsiz geldiği kesin. Erkenden bıraktı gitti bizi. İlk duyduğumda, daha yapılacak bir sürü işi kalmışken gidenlere duyduğumuz o isyan duygusunu yaşadım. ODTÜ Şehircilik bölümünün Raci Bademli hocası gibi. Emre Hoca’nın da böyle şeyleri insanın aklına getirmeyen, yaşsız bir havası, bir […]
- [In Memory of our Professor Emre Madran](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/in-memory-of-our-professor-emre-madran/): Text (in Turkish) of my memorial speech for our dear colleague and professor, Emre Madran made at the ICOMOS Turkish National Committee General Assembly dated 14 December 2013.
- [Yavaş Olmak](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/yavas-olmak/): Yavaşla, sakin ol, topraklan, kök sal, merkeze gel, nefesin ve bilincin açılsın, enerjin aksın, farkındalığın artsın, güçlen, canlan, uyan, harekete geç…ama farkındalıkla.. The Race to Slowness Engage in the oft-missing luxury of unhurried movement. Life is so fast, especially modern life. We get out of balance with the speed, intensity, complexity. Slowness is something we miss, at a deep level, something we crave. 1. Improve Lymph Flow Going at slow speed activates the pulsing lymph flow in the entire body, because it resonates with the slow, rhythmic way lymph likes to move. An enormous flow of lymph fluid can move […]
- [The Race to Slowness](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/the-race-to-slowness/): (With thanks to Özlem Özülker..) Engage in the oft-missing luxury of unhurried movement. Life is so fast, especially modern life. We get out of balance with the speed, intensity, complexity. Slowness is something we miss, at a deep level, something we crave. 1. Improve Lymph Flow Going at slow speed activates the pulsing lymph flow in the entire body, because it resonates with the slow, rhythmic way lymph likes to move. An enormous flow of lymph fluid can move through your body. Optimizing your lymph flow will increase the many valuable tasks that the lymph does, such as clearing up […]
- [Kitlesel Bağış Kampanyaları](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/kitlesel-bagis-kampanyalari/): Gezi Olaylarına ilişkin New York Times gazetesine verilen tam sayfa ilan: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action Istanbul United Filmi: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/istanbul-united-the-movie Ziazan the Movie- konu çikolata olunca, sınırlar kalmaz (Türk-Ermeni ortak yapımı): http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ziazan—2 Kusursuzlar (The Impeccables) Filmi: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kusursuzlar-the-impeccables
- [Crowdfunding Campaigns](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/crowdfunding-campaigns/): Full Page Ad in the New York Times on the Gezi Protests: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/full-page-ad-for-turkish-democracy-in-action Istanbul United the Movie: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/istanbul-united-the-movie Ziazan the Movie- when it comes to chocolate, there are no borders (Turkish-Armenian co-production): http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ziazan—2 Kusursuzlar (The Impeccables) the Movie: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kusursuzlar-the-impeccables
- ["Hız kültürünü" ele alma hakkında notlar](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/hiz-kulturunu-ele-alma-hakkinda-notlar/): Bu içerik sadece İngilizce olarak bulunmaktadır, okumak için tıklayınız.
- [Notes about handling the ‘culture of speed’](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/notes-about-handling-the-culture-of-speed/): I recently read a book called The Culture of Speed by John Tomlinson. Here is my review of it on Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/704890372. I made some notes out of it, because they resonate with the ‘down time’ that I have been going through since November 2012. ‘Downshifting‘: to change a highly paid but stressful job for one that makes it possible to improve quality of life in other respects. (Microsoft Encarta English Dictionary) Tomlinson 2007: 150. So THIS is what I was trying to do… Abu Dhabi job wasn’t always stressful, but it was weird.. Frustrating somehow, for lack of enough sense, […]
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 8 – The Final Episode!](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-8-the-final-episode/): Greetings to everybody once again, with one last cyber-newsletter before I fly back to Ankara via Moscow next Sunday. The MWC is quite a bit longer, in the effort not to leave anything left unsaid that could or should be said about this Mongolian experience, additional commentary.
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 7 – New Year Edition](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-7-new-year-edition/): Date: January 2, 2000 Dear Friends, How are you after the crazy (or relaxed) New Year parties? Any hangovers? Over here we had plenty! Saturday was a totally blurry day. Not that we here in UB had too much wild fun, but we did have our share of champagne! At the National Opera House overlooking Sukh Baatar Square, where we could watch the whole vast square fill up with hundreds of people around the giant, lit up (Christmas) tree at the square’s centre.  A few toasts and dances with friends from the local scene, including those friends from the US, […]
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 6](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-6/): Welcome to the last MWC of the year. I hope the holidays have been going well for you so far. As for UB, Christmas is being celebrated around the relevant pious households and communities, with the appropriate snowy urban landscape to accompany.
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 5](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-5/): Ha ha! Thought I’d given up, eh?.. Alas, I am back to plug up your inboxes once again! hope all your weeks have been fine and full of good fortune. As it is the time of the year where everybody is wishing each other well as part of the season’s greetings, I hope the general rise of positive energy has been helping in this respect.
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 4](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-4/): Welcome back to another gruelling round of MWN. This time, though, the @#$% computer has stabbed me in the back and malfunctioned, so after a lot of lost time, whatever nerves and good spirits left will be squeezed out into a more shorthand-type mail.
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 3](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-3/): Here is yet another episode of the by-now-getting-established News from Mongolia. Even though it is 2 am here, I am very intent on finishing this on time (i.e. one week from the previous one) and being disciplined about it.
- [Mongolian Weekly News no. 2](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-weekly-news-no-2/): As a result of some nice feedback, I got used to the idea of writing the story of my daily life and times in the Far East to you good people. (Maybe you can gather that it is not the busiest of places in the world, so that I can sit down and write stuff like this!)
- [Mongolian Rhapsody](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolian-rhapsody/): Hi from Ulaan Baatar… I arrived yesterday from Beijing. Directly my parents whisked me off to an international women’s club ball, with a grand raffle and dancing and a lot of smiling, fake and not, where my fatigue after traveling from 7.30 am onwards topped with some wine finally showed their effects, and today I slept till 12 noon.
- [Moğolistan 1999-2000](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/mogolistan-1999-2000/): Bu içerik sadece İngilizce olarak bulunmaktadır, okumak için tıklayınız.
- [Mongolia 1999-2000](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/mongolia-1999-2000/): The Mongolian Weekly Cyber, November 1999- January 2000 Introduction At age 24, after my year of master studies in York, England, I spent part of the winter of 1999-2000 with my parents in Ulan Bator (Ulaan Baatar in the local way of saying it), capital of Mongolia, my father being the Turkish Ambassador there from 1998 to 2002. This journal chronicles two months in the heart of the winter of this enigmatic, ‘deep Asian’ country, based on a spontaneously evolving series of weekly e-mail messages to friends from York and other places, for the purpose of keeping in touch. Mongolia […]
- [GAP 2001](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/gap-2001/): İstanbul – Atatürk Havalimanı’nda, arkadaşım Jaideep Chakrabarti ile birlikte, turla buluşma. Nemrut bir sabah havası içinde kendimizi uçağa attık.
- [Southeast Anatolia 2001](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/southeast-anatolia-2001/): Joi (my friend Jaideep Chakrabarti) and I met with the tour group at İstanbul – Atatürk Airport. Threw ourselves into the airplane, for the 07.00 am Diyarbakır flight, in a grumpy early morning mood..!
- [Gelibolu 2003](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/tr/gelibolu-2003/): Geçen sene üst üste gelen bazı olaylar öyle bir denk gelip beni olmadık bir şekilde etkiledi ki, daha birkaç ay öncesinden, “önümüzdeki sene Gelibolu’yu anmaya ben de gelmeliyim” diye adeta bir and içtim.
- [Gallipoli 2003](https://www.aegeyildirim.com/gallipoli-2003/): Last year, some things that happened to me one after the other affected me in such a way that I promised myself, many months in advance, to “go to commemorate Gallipolu next year”.

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