Tracking the Everyday,
Shaping the Future.
LAB-OR (Lab of the Ordinary) is an interdisciplinary research initiative dedicated to exploring the politics of everyday life through the lenses of media, technology, space, and affective practices. By bridging academic production with artistic and public projects, the lab investigates the micro-forms of resistance and solidarity embedded within the ordinary.
LEARN MOREPostcards from Smyrna: Memory, Place, and Forgotten Futures
Alice-Anne Psaltis (University of Melbourne) shares her process of working with a family album of early-to-mid-20th-century picture postcards from Smyrna/Izmir to explore how we remember and reconstruct the past as an ongoing process of correspondence.
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LAB-OR Opening and Introductory Gathering
In this first gathering of LAB-OR, established as a Scientific Research Team at Yaşar University, we will share our research approach, areas of work, and plans for the coming period, while opening up space for new academic encounters and possible collaborations around everyday life and cultural practices.