Intro
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Sofra returns. This time, not inside a historic han, but inside a villa şantiye.
After Sofra @ Bıçakçı Han, NOVA x Akdu Kitchen and Yeniden Mekan bring the table into a new kind of unfinished space: raw, temporary, half-built, and open to imagination.
Sofra @ Şantiye is a gamified social gathering that approaches shared mealtimes not merely as a necessity, but as a collective experience shaped by memory, identity, storytelling, and intuition.
Participants bring their own dishes, their kitchen stories, and their personal rituals to the table. Throughout the evening, we wander intuitively through each other’s plates, guess, taste, listen, and gather around food as a shared language.
Set inside the unfinished atmosphere of a villa construction site, Sofra @ Şantiye transforms eating together into a social ritual, conversation into a shared narrative, and the şantiye into a temporary dining room.
A one-night gluten-free social dining experience shaped by cuisine, memory, and the quiet magic of being around the same table.
Event Programme
1. Welcome & Introduction (30 minutes)
Explanation of the concept, presentation of gluten-free Turkish cuisine, introduction of the “Reimagined Space” concept, table seating, and tasting rules.
2. Table Tasting & Guessing Game (2 hours)
Dishes are tasted at four-person tables. Participants write down the ingredients they guess for each dish on paper. The person with the most correct guesses becomes the table winner. Prizes are presented to the table winners at the end of the evening.
3. Snack Service (1 hour)
Free conversation and social interaction after the game.
4. Closing & Winners (30 minutes)
Announcement of table winners, a brief evaluation, and a collective closing.
Project Coordination: Alkım Erkan TANRIGÜNVERDİ, Merve AKDU
Moderation: Merve AKDU
Volunteers:Fatma Tuna MENGİLLİ, Enes KARAKAŞ Faruk SALİHOĞLU, Gözdenur CİVAN, Elif TEMEL, Ceren KÖSE, Pınar VAR
Visual Identity:Merve AKDU, Alkım Erkan TANRIGÜNVERDİ