October 2026 — Brick-Up Exhibition

October 2026 — Brick-Up Exhibition

Throughout the summer, I had been having meetings about something I wanted to do in October, Selective Mutism Awareness Month: take Mini-Talks beyond the project itself and create a space where people could experience the ideas behind it. For one week, with the support of Collection Club and TÜRGÖK, I will bring my LEGO collection to Ahmed Adnan Saygun Arts Center for a Brick-Up exhibition and a series of workshops. But I don’t want it to be a LEGO exhibition where everything stays behind glass.

I want visually impaired children to explore parts of the exhibition by touching them. With 6-Dot Brick, I will organize Braille workshops where they can learn and build through LEGO. I also want them to explore mechanical designs with their hands—to understand how they move and how they work without having to worry about breaking them. And for children with selective mutism, I want the exhibition to work differently again. Through Mini-Talks, they will be able to create their own minifigures and let those minifigures speak for them. For one week, the same LEGO collection I have spent years being careful not to lose, damage, or leave incomplete will become a collection I want children to touch, build with, and use in their own ways.

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