“Climate crisis” is one of the most notable subjects on sustainability discussions. Having experienced the devastating effects of last year’s forest fires that took place in Marmaris closely, artist Meltem Şahin talked about the “Bee-Koop” project that was carried out to compensate for the damage suffered by beekeeping, which is a source of livelihood for the majority of the people in the region. The project in which she and about 30 artists put 330 NFT artworks for sale, was supported by NatGeo and Le Petit Marche, and was promoted in 8 different languages in 20 countries. Although Şahin started the project with high hopes, the sales volume didn’t turn out as expected but she made enough sales to cover some of the expenses for beebread, while her main target remained creating a long-term, sustainable ecosystem.

Carrying out studies and lecturing on art, society, technology and cultural memory, Bager Akbay discussed the ways that humans can contribute to nature and their destructive effects on it: “The conditions we live in are not natural. We changed the world to achieve this. We established fields of science and different disciplines, we persuaded people to these. We designed universities. We made up the Renaissance people. Now what do we want to sustain, why don’t we want to sustain it?” Believing that the basis of sustainability is to keep an individual perspective, Akbay stated that the concept should be supported by scientific literacy and sociology in order to enter a maturation period.

Zeynep Çelik pointed to the “regular crisis theory and panic period” that we live in. On the other hand, Elmas Deniz mentioned that the relationship we establish with the world is actually one that we learn from an economic model, made some touch points on rediscovering our relationship with nature and discussed the question “Can we reimagine our relationship with nature?”