As part of the 2021-2022 Academic Year Fall Semester events of the Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture, a panel titled Participation in Architecture and Planning: Challenges and Opportunities was held on Wednesday, December 15, 2021, at 15.30. The moderator of the panel was Asst. Prof. Z. Ayşe Gökşin, in which Istanbul City Council President Tülin Hadi, Gazhane Environmental Volunteers Nesrin Uçar and Işık Demirtaş, and Architecture for All Association İbrahim Emre Gündoğdu and Merve Gül Özokcu participated as speakers. In the panel; The projects and programs of the Istanbul City Council, which exemplify the top-down strategic approaches to participation, the struggle of Gazhane Environmental Volunteers as bottom-up community-based approaches, and the efforts of the Architecture for All Association in rural-urban areas, and the difficulties encountered in the participation processes and the practices presented by the practices for participation. opportunities were discussed.