Oda Projesi is an artist collaborative based in Istanbul, Turkey that officially formed in 2000[1] and is made up of three women artists who met as graduate students at Marmara University Fine Art Academy:[2] Özge Acıkkol, Günes Savas and Secil Yersel.
(...) We are making a direct appropriation of the ways in which this city functions, by using the existing potentials of the spaces in which we live together with other people.
[2] From 1997 to 2005, Oda Projesi worked through a three-room apartment in the Galata district of Istanbul, providing a space for collaborations and cooperations with their neighbors.
[3] The group initially intended to use the space as an artists' studio where they could work in an independent environment away from their parents (they were in their early to mid 20s at the time).
[2] They began to interact with their neighbors through the Italian Courtyard of the building, first children and then women, and formed a gathering space.