13/11/2025
Hill of Tears | .studio
International Architecture Biennial of Antalya
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Grief as Resistance
Hill of Tears is a space of mourning created to remember and never forget the women and children murdered by gendered violence.
Here, grief is not silence; it is resistance.
Every stone, every drop, every light carries the trace of a lost life.
The space makes visible the pain that society seeks to bury;
it transforms the forgotten into a forest of remembrance woven from water, soil, and light.
To mourn here is to remember,
and to remember is the act of resistance itself.
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Team:
Birge Yıldırım Okta
Gurkan Okta
Murat Opus (Musical Composition)
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Site Installation:
Furkan Toru
Can Gök
Ece Erçelik
Batuhan Efe Şahin
Ece Başgör ecebasgor
Ayşe Öztürk syaozt
Hira AylinÖzkan
Elif Temel
Mustafa Kılıç
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Dance Performance:
Özlem Ural
Özlem Soytürk
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Supporters:
Liverpool John Moores University
Chamber of Architects Antalya
OKTAA.Studio .studio
Hasan Çerçiler
Antalya Dance Academy
Kepez Municipality
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Thanks to..
Jale N. Erzen tulin_gorgulu .dr.kemalrehakavas Pelin Yoncacı Arslan pelinozgen Bilal Ateş .cem .akay
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