Istanbul Design Biennial hosted many exhibitions and projects, offering new perspectives to its main theme, through the academy programme organised in collaboration with 76 departments of 26 universities in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir, Eskişehir and Northern Cyprus. The Academy Program included many products and ideas created through workshops, competitions and projects by various faculties and departments of the universities during the 2011-2012 academic year as well as panels and colloquiums on the biennial theme. The programme was free of charge in 17 university campuses and 5 other venues around the city. The program aimed at encouraging the participation of academia and students to the biennial events, as well as contributing to the field of education. Please find all the university projects, events and visiting informations of the universities in Academy Program below.
Participant Universities of the Academy Program
Anadolu University
Bahçeşehir University
Başkent University
Eastern Mediterranean University
Doğuş University
Hacettepe University
Işık University
İhsan Doğramacı Bilkent University
İstanbul Aydın University
İstanbul Bilgi University
İstanbul Fashion Academy
İstanbul Technical University
Istanbul Commerce University
İzmir University of Economics
Kadir Has University
Marmara University
Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts
Middle East Technical University
T.C. Beykent University
T.C. Haliç University
T.C. İstanbul Kültür University
T.C. Maltepe University
Yaşar University
Yeditepe University
Yıldız Technical University
University Projects
Evidence of Imperfection + Praise To Imperfection = Pleasure
Anadolu University Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Industrial Design and Department of Interior Design
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Füsun Curaoğlu
12/11/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
model exhibition + installation
“Order changes and leaves its traces. Traces transform and complete each other. A flaw progresses in motion and emulates imperfection. Flaws progress to imperfection. And they leave evidence behind. The traces of transformation: Evidence of Imperfection… The seemingly perfect order of nature and the human mind revolting against it… Nature, which perfectly maintains its system, considers humans a powerless species and leaves them defenseless. Humans make flaws while struggling to reach a perfect system, which also causes instant perfections. In turn, instant perfections create emotional pleasures. Short and to the point. There is a moment. And after that moment it is no different from any other. Creating objects that lead to pleasure is a Praise to Imperfection.” The students studying in the Department of Industrial Design explain this loop to us with their products of design which is their ‘tool to create flaws’.
Address: Mimarlar Odası İstanbul Büyükkent Şubesi Yıldız Sarayı Dış Karakol Binası Barbaros Bulvarı 34349 Yıldız – Beşiktaş
An Important Note: In Istanbul Design Biennial program booklet, the exhibition venue adress has been misspelled. Please take the adress above into account.
Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication, Department of Communication Design
Photo by: Ecem Arıcan
Project Coordinators:Prof. Dr. FatoşAdiloğlu, Prof. FabianoPetricone, Lecturer DidemÇarıkçı Wong, Res. Asst. Neşe D. Akbaş
12/11/2012-12/12/2012
Reception: 13 November 2012, Tuesday
model, digital and photography exhibition
Having reviewed Istanbul’s city locations from the perspective of fundamental design principles for two years, the students discover and share different ways of viewing the “flawed city”, highlight the issues of daily city life, as well as try to arouse the audience’s curiosity about the rarely seen and little known sides of the city at their exhibition titled “Unexpected Istanbul.” In this experimental work based on observations and research, the abstracts of Istanbul formed in the students’ designer minds turn into three-dimensional objects – Istanbul itself.
Address: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Karaköy Yerleşkesi Kemeraltı Cad. no: 24 5. Kat Karaköy Beyoğlu İstanbul
Wrapping Istanbul
Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Communication, Department of Communication Design
Photo by: Alexandra Schindl
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Didem Çarıkçı Wong
12/11/2012-12/12/2012
Reception: 13 November 2012, Tuesday
model, digital and photography exhibition
With the products they developed during their Packaging Design courses, the students studying in the Department of Communication Design offer an eminent and distinct design identity to Istanbul in order to ensure Istanbul survives in the global economy, and analyze local packages and specialty products found in the city to create a strong identity. With regards to the theme of imperfection, the project team focuses on the proposition that “the products specific to this geography do not have unique and clear identities” and tries to solve this problem by handling it as a design issue. The research materials of their creative process include each and every aspect of Istanbul, from architecture to food, from historical texture to transportation and the people in the city.
Address: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Karaköy Yerleşkesi Kemeraltı Cad. no: 24 5. Kat Karaköy Beyoğlu İstanbul
Bridges of Creativity
Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of Industrial Design
Photo by: İpek Gemicioğlu
Project Coordinator: Vecdi Sayar, Association for Intercultural Communication & Interdisciplinary Art
16/10/2012-23/10/2012
Reception: 16 October 2012, Tuesday – 09.30
glass, tile, jewellery, felt, ceramic exhibition + conference
The project “Bridges of Creativity”, conducted by the Association for Intercultural Communication & Interdisciplinary Art as part of the activities celebrating the 400th Anniversary of diplomatic relations between Turkey and the Netherlands, will be presented at the biennial. The exhibition brings together inherently ‘unique’ and ‘flawed’ products which were manufactured by handicraft in workshops conducted in cooperation with Dutch DFA, Dutch Art Academies, Turkish Universities and local authorities in different cities throughout Turkey. Meanwhile, the sessions titled “The Role of Creative Industries in Modern Economy”, “Traditional Arts As a Source of Inspiration for Contemporary Art”, and “From Tradition to the Future: From Traditional Crafts to Creative Industries”, conducted at the international conference “From Traditional Arts and Crafts to Creative Industries”, which was organized with the cooperation of Brainport Development Capital D and BAÜ, also provide an in-depth view on the theme.
Conference: “From Tradition to the Future: From Traditional Crafts to Creative Industries”
Date: 16 October 2012, Tuesday
Hours: 10.00 – 18.00
Address: Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi, Beşiktaş, İstanbul
Başkent University Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Visual Arts and Design
Photo by: Nazim Can Gürseler
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Halime Fişenk
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
graphic design exhibition
“Can the concept of imperfection be symbolized?” Senior students studying at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Visual Arts and Design trace the roots of this issue, and try to symbolize the flawed aspects of the city with graphic designs as part of the Symbiotic Systems course in the Spring Semester of the 2011-2012 education year. The symbols of imperfection, on which each student reflects his/her own individual view, form another way of abstracting Istanbul experiences.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İstanbul
Eastern Mediteranean University Faculty of Communication and Media Studies, Department of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design; Bilgi Faculty of Information Technology, Department of Visual Communication Design
Photo by: Anastasia Artyukhova
Project Coordinators: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Senih Çavuşoğlu, Asst. Prof. Dr. Aysu Arsoy, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ümit İnatçı and Asst. Prof. Dr. Fırat Tüzünkan (EMU); Assoc. Prof. Dr. Onur Eroğlu and Lecturer Cem Ersözlü (Bilgi)
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Mondays)
digital installation, photography, video-art
The project “I Am Not Perfect” contains the products of a one-year period of intensive work jointly conducted as part of the Project Portfolio course by the students of EMU and Bilgi Universities studying in the departments of visual communication design. The posters as well as moving and still graphic designs on the same theme produced by guest lecturer Prof. EbrahimHaghigi, Chairman of the Association of Iranian Graphic Designers, are also an important part of the project. Digital installation, photography and video-art works bring together interesting approaches and solutions put forward by students and lecturers from different cultural backgrounds.
Address: Santralİstanbul, Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral İstanbul Kampüsü, Kazım Karabekir cad. no:2-13 Eyüp – İstanbul
Doğuş University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dilek Hocaoğlu, Assoc. Prof. H. Eser Tezeren, Res. Asst. Saliha Dönmez
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
photography and model exhibition
Students studying in the Department of Industrial Design investigate the theme of imperfection from a rhetorical view; they discuss similarity, distinctiveness, the society which encompasses and surrounds them, higher ethical rules, social acceptance, the psychological state used to interpret them and how this state is formed. The product designs made with the flawed glass of “defective” eyeglasses which were supplied from factories open the debate on the issue of “How can flawed objects become perfect?”, along with photographs and models that document the whole design process.
Address: Doğuş Üniversitesi H Blok Giriş Fuaye Alanı Acıbadem, Kadıköy, İstanbul
Imperfection “Rhetoric”
Doğuş University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Graphics
Project Coordinators: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Abdullah Taşcı, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Irmak Akçadoğan, Lecturer DuyguBeykal, Res. Asst. EzgiKaraata
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
font design + photography
Students studying in the Department of Graphic Design investigate the theme of imperfection from a rhetorical view; they discuss similarity, distinctiveness, the society which encompasses and surrounds them, higher ethical rules, social acceptance, the psychological state used to interpret them and how this state is formed. The products of the “Design the Font for Jigsaw Puzzles”, “Design the Font for Sketch & Paint”, and “Design the Font for Cut & Fold” workshops are displayed as part of this theme.
Address: Doğuş Üniversitesi H Blok Giriş Fuaye Alanı Acıbadem, Kadıköy, İstanbul
Hacettepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. İncilay Yurdakul
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception: 2 November 2012, Friday – 19.30
new media
The project, which is an outcome of studio and workshop activities, consists of graphic design products that students in the Department of Graphic Design created by way of using new media tools including digital streaming, notification, promotion and advertisement clips, moving graphics, animation and video editing technologies. Reflections of global social issues in political and intellectual realms; the stories of illegal immigrants and refugees living in Istanbul and the “fact of immigration”; experimental photographic works and illustrations that visualize the chaos in Istanbul with light tricks; the communication problems between people speaking the same language in the context of new media design processes, as well as the harsh living conditions in Istanbul are some of the noteworthy topics covered in the “Destructive-Creative Istanbul” project.
Address: İstanbul Grafik Sanatlar Müzesi; Ünalan Mahallesi Keban Cad. No: 20 Üsküdar 34700 İSTANBUL
Işık University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Beril Anılanmert, Lecturer S. Bahar Tunçelli, Lecturer M. Cem Drahşan, Res. Asst. Deniz Ekmekçioğlu, Res. Asst. Melike Mühür
13/10/2012-15/11/2012
Reception: 22 October 2012, Monday – 18.30
product exhibition
The project team, which consists of 10-12 members from 2nd, 3rd and 4th-year students studying in the Department of Industrial Design, displays product designs which reveal the relationships among nature-human-product under the title of “Imperfection in Daily Life.” The students, who interpreted the theme of “Imperfection” with their own analyses, deliver quests such as the conflict of natural-artificial objects by combining different materials; form trials which become more intriguing as they abandon the restrictions of symmetry and uniformity, as well as original works which can be differentiated and transformed into unique products through customization. Apart from the products, the documents which reflect the production process supplement the project.
Address: Galeri Işık Teşvikiye Cad. No:152 Nişantaşı-İstanbul
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Marek Brzozowski
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
graphic design
The exhibition consists of the works of second-year graphic design students who have begun learning about the visual language. Ranging from posters to character designs, sketchbooks to hand-made personal books, and avoiding advanced usage of image editing softwares, the exhibited projects comment on how “imperfection” becomes a natural creative tool in the hands of students.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Glint: Audio-Visual Glitches
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinator:Prof. Dr. Bülent Özgüç, Lecturer Jülide Akşiyote
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
video
A “glitch” can be defined as a “temporary irregularity” that stops a computer system from functioning. “Glint: Audio-Visual Glitches” is a 3-minute video project incorporating digital typography and audio design, and it was prepared by the students in the Department of Graphic Design using the term glitch. It is presented as an extension of a doctoral thesis which investigated the visual and auditory glitches, etc. of the patterns that show the processing logic of digital culture between the production, distribution, receiving and consumption processes in digital typography and audio design.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
A Scream In The Darkness
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serpil Altay
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
model and poster
“A Scream in the Darkness”, the theme of which is based on the idea that natural disasters are ‘natural imperfections’, contains designs of modular structures and prefabricated buildings that the students propose as an emergency solution for shelter to be used against these ‘natural imperfections’ in regions affected by natural disasters such as earthquakes. Original modular blocks, existing modular structure elements or containers designed by the students comprise the basic building structures of the project, which consisted of three phases including general purpose housing, interior design for specific use and functions and circulation systems for people, vehicles and shuttles.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
In Pursuit of Perfection
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Serpil Altay, Asst. Prof. Dr. İnci Basa, Asst. Prof. Dr. Yasemin Afacan, Lecturer Murat Özdamar, Lecturer Zeynep Genç, Lecturer Neena Zutshi
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
model and poster
While the 2012 London Olympic Games were at the heart of global attention, the students, who described “imperfection” via sports, which is “the path to perfection by overcoming flaws”, display the sports camp designs for summer and winter sports that they prepared as their semester projects. The camp centers, which are intended to improve the national team athletes’ physical condition, enhance their skills and capabilities, and get them to the level of perfection, are designed as buildings where the team could stay for a certain period prior to national and international competitions, and prepare by receiving a high level of training from coaches and professionals. The structure to be used in the project, for which Alaçatı is recommended for summer sports and Kartalkaya for winter sports, is a design produced by architect Bülent Altay.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Imperfection in Furniture Design
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serpil Altay
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
product and poster
Could the fact that a piece of furniture is intentionally left “incomplete”, so as to be completed by its user, or produced as “flawed” actually allow it to have design flexibility that conforms to change? The theme of imperfection is investigated through furniture in this project where domestic storage, service, sitting and working units were developed as a furniture system. The units, which were designed according to the design principles of modularity, flexibility, easy installation and dismantling, also allow the “user to complete the furniture” as they are left incomplete, and they can be transformed by putting units together in different ways according to the changing requirements.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Converting Imperfect to Perfect
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Elif E. Türkkan
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
project
This project questions how “imperfect” objects, which are part of our daily lives but do not meet today’s conditions and requirements, can be turned into “perfect” objects. The Interior Architecture and Environmental Design students try to re-design any flawed object from daily life as an object that perfectly meets the requirements of contemporary life.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Imperfect “I”
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Communication and Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer JülideAkşiyote
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
digital printing, photography, model, installation, video
The students in the Department of Communication and Design choose to observe imperfection through their “personalities,” capabilities, behaviors and communication media, and then depict it using the geometrical abstraction method; and support this with photographic images with formal similarities.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Imperfect Today
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Communication and Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Jülide Akşiyote
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
mixed media, installation, photography
The works that 3rd and 4th-year students from the Department of Communication and Design created in workshops offer a critical view to the seemingly perfect technological wonders of our age and manipulated images. The works draw attention to various topics ranging from a unique society model created against a society that is ordinary and has lost its uniqueness, the impairments of skyscrapers – the new symbol of the developing world economy – and a human face “made perfect” with the aid of a computer.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
The Imperfect Artist/Me
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Communication and Design
Photo by: Hazar Motan
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Jülide Akşiyote
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
photography, model, text, mixed media
The students who take conceptual design courses look for ways to turn their listed individual flaws into expressions of art and turn the mood, mindset and behaviors that hinder them from reaching perfection into an entertaining, challenging, critical and aesthetically satisfying expression with their photographs and designs that bear the traces of certain periods and artists.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Half Asleep, Winded Losses
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Communication and Design, and Department of Graphic Design
Photo by: Begüm Bilgenoğlu
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Dilek Kaya, Lecturer Jülide Akşiyote
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
photography+text
The project which contains segments from the post-graduate program thesis seeks to offer a new view with disturbing and “flawed” images related to the display and privacy of the body that are deeply-rooted in the artist’s mind. Close-up shots of the body taken at different locations and times by moving on and outside the body and the accompanying texts were grouped in the context of color, texture and form so as to create a new whole. Emerging sets are combined with strings from unpublished poems so as to ensure the audience creates new readings by moving those images with their own minds.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Critique by Design: Oasis
I.D. Bilkent University Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, Department of Urban Design and Landscape Architecture
Project Coordinators: Lecturer Deniz Altay Baykan, Asst. Prof. Dr. Bülent Batuman
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
urban design project
Getting started with a concept provides a significant area of movement, freeing the creation process by ignoring restrictions. The exhibition, which displays Deniz Altay Baykan and BülentBatuman’s works on the concept of “oasis,” includes alternative projects for the urban transformation practices that are conducted with the strategies of designing through reducing and emptying. During the first stage, the students diversify the concept of “oasis” by generating a mind map; and in the second stage, they develop propositions that produce scenarios of an “urban oasis” from an imaginary location with a pre-defined scale, and in the last stage, they produce their designs based on a real location. In this project, “producing an oasis” means revealing the potential in selected nodes rather than loading the same potential to pre-defined areas. The concept of “oasis” corresponds to “imperfection” since it aims to create using elements that “do not exist” or to find objects where there are “none”.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Nursan Korucu Taşova
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
Reception: 31 October 2012, Wednesday – 16.00
campaign graphic design
Inaccurate assessments associated with terms such as disability, environmental pollution, global warming, drug addiction, Genetically-modified (GM) foods, freedom, fast-food nutrition, privatization, traffic rules, environmentally aware irrigation, brand loyalty, etc. were based on the theme of imperfection and “awareness campaigns were prepared selecting sponsor organizations” to correct those assessments. The students in the Department of Graphic Design bring together their works including published advertisements and outdoor advertising materials such as commercials, teasers, press bulletins, billboards, advertising panels, etc. which they created with a specific design integrity.
Address: İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Florya Kampüsü, beşyol mahallesi, inönü cad. no:38 Küçükçekmece-İstanbul
Divine Imperfection
Istanbul Aydın University Faculty of Communication
Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Hülya Yeğin, Lecturer Kayıhan Güven
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
photography
As a continuation of Diane Arbus’ photographic world, monochrome photographs taken as large portraits of the people living in Istanbul who do not fit in the “ordinary person” category and ”bear imperfection” are intended to remind all lecturers involved in communication teaching as well as communication students of the presence of other people in our lives.
Address: İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi Florya Kampüsü, beşyol mahallesi, inönü cad. no:38 Küçükçekmece-İstanbul
Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Interior Design and Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Altay, Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahar Deniz Çalış Kulay, Res. Asst. Avşar Gürpınar
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Mondays and holidays)
project exhibition
The project “From Flawed Production to Perfect Re-editing” exhibits products of the workshops which were conducted with the participation of lecturers from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Faculty of Architecture as well as guest designers, artists and academicians. The designs produced by the participants under the leadership of Tim Parsons, AyşeBirsel, Nancy Takahashi, KorayÖzgen and Martina Mrongovius not only combine the fields of light industry and small scale manufacturing, including Santralistanbul, around the Golden Horn Basin with design processes but they also contain projects which aim to create an antique landscape so as to rejuvenate the Golden Horn Basin. Likewise, we see certain mapping projects, documentary and project recommendations for the Golden Horn region in the section “Random Unity of Varying Segments”, which investigates the effects on daily life of historical and urban transformation within the immediate surroundings of the campus. The section “Undetected Systems: Material Behaviors” provides a study related to the strategies for overcoming imperfect design, material and processes at the creation and installation phases of 1:1 systems that are based on parametric design. The project selections which question the ability to produce designs in informal cities are exhibited under the title “Meeting of an Informal City with Ideal Schemes”; the projects which are, on the other hand, aimed at understanding the relation between a landscape and a constructed area in the framework of current interventions with regards to the construction traditions in the Aegean Region of Çomakdağ-Kızılağaç, are displayed under the title “Local Bodies: Current Comparisons.”
Address: Santralİstanbul Galeri, Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral İstanbul Kampüsü Kazım Karabekir cad. no:1 Eyüp
Do Something Different
Istanbul Bilgi University School of Applied Sciences Department of Fashion Design
Photo by: Nuri Özen
Project Coordinators: Prof. Ben (C) Fletcher, Prof. Karen Jane Pine, Asst. Prof. Dr. İsmail Orakçıoğlu, Instructor Aslı Jackson
01/11/2012-12/12/2012
information boards, screens, exhibition of designs
“To arrive at perfection, one must go through imperfection and obscurity. Novelty and improvement are fed with mistakes and accidents and they grow when deep-rooted patterns of thinking and behavior are left behind.” “Do Something Different” is a program that allows students to discover flaws and unknowns, and enhance their flexibility with information received via SMS and e-mail, that set them free from stereotypical ways of thinking. With messages containing different directions such as “breaking down,” “dismantling”, “reversing”, “irregularity”, “re-structuring,” etc., the details which seem to be flaws actually complete the path to perfection.
Address: Santralİstanbul Enerji Müzesi, Eski Silahtarağa Elektrik Santrali, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Santral İstanbul Kampüsü, Kazım Karabekir cad. no:1 Eyüp-İstanbul
Istanbul Fashion Academy Fashion Design and Technology Certificate Programme
Project Coordinator:Eda Dorman
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Mondays)
model
The students from Istanbul Fashion Academy’s Fashion Design and Technology Undergraduate Program present the “fashion products” that they produce during a 12-week period from concept development works to collection creation and production of the selected final product as part of the Design Development and Implementation Project. All materials, silhouettes, cuts, details, volumes and textures that shape the process are intended to allow each student to come up with his/her interpretations of the theme of imperfection…
Address: İMA – Teşvikiye Cad. No:10/1. Sadrazam Sait Paşa Konağı 34365 Nişantaşı
Imperfection: Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Interdisciplinary Urban Design Graduate Program(organization), Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture and ITU Rectorate’s Department of Fine Arts (contributing departments)
Project Coordinators: Res. Asst. Meriç Demir, Res. Asst.Pelin Öztürk Ekdi
13/10/2012-30/11/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
workshop exhibition
The workshop is intended to investigate, discuss and address the effects (imperfections) of different textures and layers, conflicts and contrasts, scale and density, change and transformation, transportation and communication networks, etc. on the urban environment and their reflections in Istanbul in the context of Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow by opening the theme of imperfection to debate covering the whole city and/or only selected regions thereof.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Urban Imperfection
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, InterdisciplinaryUrban Design Graduate Program(organization), Architecture, Urban and Regional Planning, Interior Architecture, Landscape Architecture and ITU Rectorate’s Department of Fine Arts (contributing departments)
Project Coordinators:Meriç Demir, Pelin Öztürk Ekdi
13/10/2012-30/11/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
competition project exhibition+ colloquium
The Department of Urban Design organizes an idea competition for students in order to state the issue of “urban imperfection” at a concept level via written, visual and auditory media and in particular, to communicate it to various layers of society.
Colloquium Date: 19 October 2012, Friday
Hours: 13.30
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Istanbul Design Biennial: What, Why, How?
An Important Note: “Istanbul Design Biennial: What, Why, How” panel discussion (tomorrow), organized by ITU Department of Industrial Design, has been cancelled.
Negotiations With The City
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Arzu Erdem, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nurbin Paker Kahvecioğlu, Asst. Prof. Dr. Aslıhan Şenel
13/10/2012-09/11/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
architectural project
The projects which were prepared by students from ITU’s Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture discuss the term of “imperfection” and aim to offer distinct views on the term with the aid of other terms such as incompleteness, abundance, hybridity, luck, chaos, deviation, openness, precision, intimacy, transiency, etc., and put forward different programs through negotiating with the whole region and the city. The projects include reconstructing the boundary line between TaksimGezi Park and Taksim Square with a passage-library, replicating the relations between the underground and the surface, the private sector and the public sector, as well as the old and the new with a museum in a steep, archeological area in Tophane, and settling, as a parasite, in the old Park Hotel’s reinforced concrete building.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, 127 nolu konferans salonu önündeki merdivenler. Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Across The Urban Time Warp: Grand Bazaar
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Landscape Architecture (undergraduate) and Interdisciplinary Urban Design (post-graduate)
Project Coordinators: Assoc. Prof. Dr. A. Senem Deviren, M. Senaİzgi, Res. Asst. Birge Yıldırım
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
audio-visual (digital) exhibition
The Grand Bazaar, which was selected as an urban research/reading focus during a design studio and post-graduate course, is being assessed as a discovery area where trials are done to make spatial observations, gain experience and transmit/present such experience. The Grand Bazaar, which constantly grows, changes and becomes stratified with its physical and fictional structure and does not hide its imperfection, is like a playing field that moves along with the ideas of the project team. Location analyses, live segments and video/visual presentations prepared by post-graduate and undergraduate students can be viewed at the audio-visual exhibition.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Istanbul As A “Palimpsest” City And Imperfection
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Urban and Regional Planning
Scientific Executive Board: Prof. Dr. Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu, Dr. Peter Kellett, Prof. Dr. Handan Türkoğlu, Prof. Dr. Hülya Turgut, Prof. Dr. Alper Ünlü; Organization Committee: Bihter Almaç, F. Belgin Gümrü, Önen Günöz ,İpek Şen, ŞebnemŞoher
27/11/2012-28/11/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
workshopexhibition, colloquium + symposium
Various topics such as spatial and social conflicts, change, transformation, continuity, urban and architectural identity of Istanbul – a city of multiple layers – will be investigated and discussed from a dialectical view during the “IAPS-CSBE Network” activities based on the theme of imperfection. A wide range of interconnected activities will be held during the biennial such as article selection, design workshop, urban addition national competition for students, exhibitions, colloquium and symposiums.
Competition Exhibition: ““Kentsel Ek”im”
Date: 7 November – 12 December
Colloquium, Symposium and Award Ceremony Dates: 27 – 28 November 2012, Tuesday – Wednesday
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Fashion and Imperfection
Istanbul Technical University Faculty of Textile Technologies and Design, Textile Engineering-İTÜ-FIT Fashion Design Program
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Cevza Candan, Dr. Belgin Görgün, Lecturer Şükriye Yüksel, Lecturer Gül Agis, Lecturer Serra Yüzer
15/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
clothing design
The design students, who consider the term “flaw” as a positive value, define imperfection as a moving and changeable case based on the idea of incompleteness. From the students’ interpretations, we see that a “flawed clothing” design is clothing that is free from any kind of static, fixed definition. Thanks to the different utilization alternatives, the designs can be used in various forms such as a dress, shirt, etc. The collections which were created after a thorough investigation of the term “flaw”, considering clothing design processes and trends, are being exhibited.
Address: İTÜ Gümüşsuyu, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Tekstil Mühendisliği ve Tasarımı Fakültesi, Gümüşsuyu Kampüsü 34437 Gümüşsuyu-İSTANBUL
Istanbul Commerce University Faculty of Engineering and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design
Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Mehmet Zaman Saçlıoğlu
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
textile, fabric
The form of production, which not only develops products for individuals but also re-directs their tastes and gradually makes them its captives, is accepted as a requirement of modern life and individuals lose their creativity and depart from the attribute of shaping themselves and their life in a free manner. Thus, art becomes specialized by no longer being the individual playground of each person and the artist yields to the control of trained people called designers. This game, which all people could enjoy themselves with, is now played only among professionals, and has become an unpleasant one with the addition of “economy” to it. When encountering such cases, the consumers create another game for themselves. They customize these perfect (!) products of high monetary and aesthetic value, and thus make those products their unique possessions by modifying, breaking them down and adding items that are considered to be flaws by the industry. This project is the project of such a game. It is intended to assign identities to the products, which are manufactured in accordance with the rules of the market and do not possess an identity, by adding flaws to them, and making them “individual”…
Address: İstanbul Ticaret Üniversitesi Merkez-Eminönü Kampüs, Ragıp Gümüşpala Caddesi No: 84 34378 Eminönü – İSTANBUL
(I’m-Perfect-Ionian) Confessions of Ionian Designers
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Can Özcan, Res. Asst.Derya Irkdaş
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
poster + model
Industrial Design students present two groups of projects on the theme of Imperfection: The first group of projects is about the “KITSCH” project work of the 3rd-year course titled “Semiotics in Industrial Design.” With their new designer identities, they bring together the products/objects that they designed investigating daily concepts in an ironic manner free from any concerns of perfection. The second group of projects contains individual works developed as part of the 4th-year graduation project work. The works consist of product and service design proposals developed for daily rituals, social responsibility, health, technology and human interaction, and sustainability.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Stencil Type
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication and Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Alessandro Segalini
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
typography design
In this workshop on typography design, the students were given a serif typeface model (Warnock by Robert Slimbach in printed sample, not as a digital font), upper and lower case, figures and punctuation; they drew their sans serif letterforms by hand based on that anatomical model; successively, they planned and drew all bridges in order to create the stencil version of the sans produced.The drawings were digitized and laser cut in 0.5mm stainless steel A3 foils.The final workshop was a simple application of the student’s stencil specimen.The laser cutter machine on the students’ artworks stresses the concept of “imperfection” of the outline – the cut being something as accurate [to the drawing] and perfect as a line that has no thickness.The final stencil letter specimens are perfectly imperfect.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Perfect Objects Of The City
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Visual Communication and Design
Project Coordinators: Res. Asst. Nail Özlüsoylu
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
installation
“An articulated, multiplying link exists between the city and people. To think of the human mind and the city awareness separately brings disasters. Humans change, and the destruction in each moment of this change stimulates the wild instincts of humans. This revealed energy harms the collective consciousness that forms the city and starts an uncontrolled destruction.” In the project titled Perfect Objects of the City, which refers to Andy Warhol’s soup cans, the prominent image of critiques of the culture of consumption, the objects from important shop displays in Istanbul put on the food cans, and the designs on them question the human and city relation that leads us to destruction.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Design For All
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Dr. Deniz Hasırcı
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
poster+ model
Interior Architecture and Environmental Design students state that the Industrial Revolution and the mass-production processes standardized not only the products and services but also the standards, rules and regulations as well as design problems, and emphasize that we must actually question how this pursuit of perfection affects original and unique designs. They review it from a different perspective starting from the designs of yachts and motor caravans, which are “by nature flawed” with their mobility, limited interior capacity and features that challenge constantly changing environmental conditions and standards: “The interior spaces of yachts and motor caravans are, on one hand, examples of perfect mass-production while, on the other hand, they are specialized and unique. Despite this, are they still examples of imperfection when compared to immobile interior spaces?”
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Imperfect Transmutation: Urban/Digital Alchemy
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ahenk Yılmaz, Res. Asst. Nur Yavuz
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
poster and model
In the graduation project of Izmir University of Economics Department of Architecture, Urban/Digital Alchemy – the art/science of urban transformation is addressed as a paradigm that stimulates undiscovered values within objects. As one of the oldest philosophical traditions in the world, alchemy has never been in pursuit of a perfect solution; the alchemist is defined as a person who understands the structure of the substance, decomposes and reconstructs it as another substance. In this conceptual framework, starting from the idea that architecture is a catalyzer that can help transform ignored regions of a city into valuable urban areas; as contemporary alchemists the undergraduate students experience using architecture as a catalyzer to achieve a better urban substance and the operational tools as universal decomposers (alkahest).
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
One World
Izmir University of Economics Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design
Project Coordinators: Res. Asst. David Yeung, Res. Asst. Selin Dartar, Res. Asst. Seda Kuleli
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
clothing design
“How should a perfect world be? What hinders us from reaching this vision?” This project opens the concept of an ideal world to debate under the principle of Single World, and invites us to discuss, face and accept the imperfections in the world or share the idea of a perfect world in contrast to the mainstream perception that matches the concept of the ideal with being compatible with perfection and order. Some students focus on the flaws in the world and human nature, and interpret the aesthetics found in those flawed forms during the construction phase of the “ideal world.” One of the projects grotesquely describes the imperfection of human souls with elements of deformation and contrast while another project emphasizes the aesthetics of disorder found in architectural forms inspired by nature. In these collections, the contrasts in nature and humans are reflected with symmetric/asymmetric cuts, textured/flat surfaces and a balance among colors.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Kadir Has University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Coşkun Orlandi, Lecturer Serkan Bayraktaroğlu, Res. Asst. Çınar Narter
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
photography, video + installation
The students will discuss the craft traditions in Istanbul, the master-apprentice relationship and the place of this relationship in the contemporary world during the exhibition, which will display the outputs of “Craft, Society and Design” workshops conducted by Kadir Has University’s Faculty of Art and Design in cooperation with Design Academy Eindhoven – Forum Department from December 2011 to May 2012.
The works that will be displayed under the manifest of “Perfection is a Crime”, which is also the title of one of the works, include photographs from the works of Design Academy Eindhoven students tracing the craft traditions in Istanbul as well as the studies of two workshops conducted by the students of Kadir Has University’s Department of Industrial Products Design and Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design.
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
Blacktraces
Kadir Has University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Coşkun Orlandi, Res. Asst. Serkan Bayraktaroğlu, Res. Asst. Çınar Narter
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
printed materials + model
The project, which is conducted in cooperation with the Tire Industrialists Association and has chosen used tires as the project material, covers the design process of public places and product systems capable of directing social relations in such places – whether connected to infrastructure or not. The project, which addresses different examples of coasts such as Kadir Has University Cibali campus and the Moda, Kadıköy-Bostancı coast road, also exhibits the units that meet the requirements of social life, eating and relaxing that extend along the coast. For example, urban furniture that allows people to sit, lay down, rest, etc.; fishing areas and products; children’s play areas and parks…
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
Mapping Environmental Imperfection Through Individual Experiences
Kadir Has University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Dr. Orçun Kepez
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
workshop exhibition, printed material + multimedia
The workshop puts forward the view that the optimal solutions for urban planning could only be reached when each and every user group prioritizes their expectations and considers the elements that it might give up in addition to their preferences. It is intended to understand how the imperfection at Kadir Has University’s Cibali Center campus and its immediate surrounding (i.e. their doorsteps) is individually perceived and to map those perceptions. It covers the thematic maps created with geographical information system software after the individual awareness tours where each participant marked the points on the map that they consider flawed or they love. Evaluation of the two basic maps together allowed us to learn the equipment and experiences which – despite their flaws – support the feeling of attachment to the neighborhood/campus. The photographs taken during the process document this evidence.
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
Imperfection: Customization Vs. Uniformity
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Lecturer Dr. Erkut Eryayar, Asst. Prof. Dr. Esin Düzakın
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
project exhibition
The 3rd-year students of Marmara University’s Department of Industrial Design interpret the concept of “imperfection” as “creating designs that permit customization with intervention of the users within the possibilities of industrial mass production in order to break down the uniformity of mass produced design products.” The students primarily work on lighting and furniture products and focus on the attributes of the products rather than altering their functionality or structure to accommodate user contributions. They create the differences by generating different combinations with the visual elements of the products or by using the methods of adding or omitting items.
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
On Imperfection
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinator: Prof. Sema Ilgaz Temel
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
graphic design
The students fromDepartment of Graphic Design developed graphic design concepts with experimental works on the theme of imperfection. Those works include a book design concept that visualizes human mistakes by using technical printing mistakes; hand-made toys made of recycled materials; a project titled “No Offense, Istanbul” which links population increase, traffic load, rapid increase in the number of vehicles, new residential areas and factors that narrow down living areas for humans with imperfection, and also other works produced with the “Yokgen” logo that draw attention to missing items, incompatibility and unawareness, and challenge what we know to be true, and force us to think again to come to different conclusions…
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
“IdentityLESS” Chairs
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture
Project Coordinator: Prof. Meltem Eti Proto
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
plastic chair prototype + poster
The project titled “Without an Identity” was created as an“anti-design” activity conducted during the Free Furniture Designcourse at Marmara University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture. It contains propositions for a monoblock plastic chair which is the embodiment of missing identities, flawed design manifesting the age of mass production, dullness, indifference, nomadic life, indifference towards ourselves and the environment: “One monoblock plastic chair, which is produced every seventy seconds, fills houses, offices, gardens, and cities around the world. When we think about Andrea Branzi’s ‘animalidomestici’ (domestic animals) furniture concept loaded with emotions, we wonder how we surrendered to monoblock plastic chairs? Could we give an identity to it, or was it possible? What did we question when we assigned identities? Our habits, desires, change, forgotten items, our choices, manifests… Which one?”
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
Designing With Felt
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture
Project Coordinator: Prof. Meltem Eti Proto
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
felt furniture prototype + poster
With the ‘’Designing With Felt” project, the students undergo a process where they become familiar with the capabilities of the materials and investigate their designer identities. The project consists of experimental works which allow the design-prototype developing phases to be conducted in the workshop directly by the students with experimental methods of manufacturing, challenge traditional use of felt material, and offer new areas and ways of use for the material. While the students discover experimental creative solutions which enable them to realize their designs instead of using traditional methods of manufacturing, they also have the opportunity to review production issues by returning to the design stage. They try to create their unique design language during this interactive creation-production process free from any concerns related to mass production.
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
I-For-M-Perfect
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. İnci Deniz Ilgın
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
poster + model
“When you think about both form and the theme of imperfection you cannot help but wonder ‘Is there any perfect form?’ Seeking perfection in several phases of the creation process seems like an appealing target for the designer. However, it is kind of impossible to reach a definition that makes a clear distinction between what is perfect and what is flawed. Is it having a perfect functionality that makes a flawed form imperfect, or is it having had a flawed production process that makes a perfect looking form imperfect?” The 1st- and 2nd-year students from Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Interior Architecture produced their form creation works in light of the above questions.
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
Imperfection: Experimental Touches
Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Textile
Project Coordinators: Prof. Günay Atalayer, Assoc. Prof. Çiğdem Çini, Assoc. Prof. İdil Akbostancı, Asst. Prof. Yeşim Bağrışen, Lecturer Vildan Tok, Res. Asst. Başak Özdemir
13/10/2012-17/11/2012
Reception: 19 October 2012, Friday – 17.00
textile exhibition + installation
The works of students studying in the Department of Textile seek to capture authenticity with spontaneity and experimental touches and they highlight values such as “changing”, “discontinuity”, “transiency” and “individuality” rather than required norms and rules for mass production and generally accepted facts. In the project, the comments, areas of interests and the statements about selected resources of the 4th-year students, who study the fields of printing, weaving and clothing design, on the concept of ‘imperfection’ under the scope of the abovementioned approach are combined in the common main form/T-form selected in reference to our culture.
Address: Mixer, Boğazkesen Cad. Tomtom mahallesi no:45 bodrum kat
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinators: Res. Asst. Umut Südüak, Res. Asst. Başak Ürkmez
01/12/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
poster exhibition
This event, which will be held on the theme of “Imperfection” with the participation of international academicians and professional graphic designers, consists of works that depict how graphic designers interpret different events and situations from their own perspectives.
Address: MSGSÜ, Osman Hamdi Bey Salonu, Meclis-i Mebusan Cad. no: 24 Fındıklı
Clay Factory
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Ceramics and Glass Design
Project Coordinator: Max Lamb, Domaine de Boisbuchet
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
workshop exhibition
The main function of the Clay Factory workshop was to investigate the capability of the human hand to mass-produce functional and beautiful objects using clay, to understand the inherent differences between “Hand vs.Machine”, and how the concept of “Imperfection vs.Perfection” can be adopted to increase both the beauty and value of objects made by hand.
Having completed three timed clay-making exercises, each student had a couple of days to design and develop a functional clay object capable of being “mass-produced” by hand in one day.On the final day of the workshop the students had 4 hours in which to produce a batch of 40 examples of their design.The objects produced ranged from a tea cup and dinner plate to a pencil pot, vase and light shade.
Address: VitrA Nişantaşı Mağazası Vali Konağı Caddesi no:26
Corporate Identity in Product Graphics and Brand Identity in Packaging Design
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Lecturer Sema Bıyıklıoğlu, Res. Asst. Dr. Abdüsselam Selami Çifter, Res. Asst. Yener Altıparmakoğulları, Res. Asst. Ilgım Eroğlu
12/11/2012-12/12/2012
packaging + visual identity design
This activity brings together product identity designs for organizations, whether non-profit organizations or not, working on cases (situations) that could be accepted as imperfection by society. It describes what benefits packaging designed to be flawed – in terms of physical properties – could offer to its users.
Address: Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi No: 24 Fındıklı 34427 İstanbul
Undersigning Imperfection
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. H. Şebnem Uzunarslan, Asst. Prof. Dr. Didem Bedük Tuncel, Asst. Prof. Dr. Bahar Ülker Kaya, Res. Asst. Hande Altınok, Res. Asst. Işıl Özçam
19/11/2012-12/12/2012
digital +workshop exhibition
“Undersigning Imperfection” project covers the analysis of “Collective Housing” buildings which are unable to meet users’ needs by considering their layout plans. The exhibition is being conducted with the participation of at least 30 students and it allows the students to come up with original solutions for the shortcomings of such buildings for two days with free design and presentation techniques after reviewing relevant building plans.
Address: Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi No: 24 Fındıklı 34427 İstanbul
Imperfect Balances
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture
Project Coordinators:Asst. Prof. Dr. H. Şebnem Uzunarslan, Res. Asst. Hande Altınok, Res. Asst. Işıl Özçam
19/11/2012-12/12/2012
digital +workshop exhibition
The workshop conducted within the scope of “Experimental Furniture” displays the furniture that is designed in accordance with the sub-topics of the concept of “imperfection”. The students of interior architecture introduced new interpretations on furniture with extraordinary aesthetical balances using free design and presentation technique.
Address: Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi No: 24 Fındıklı 34427 İstanbul
Confirming The Perfect
Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Dr. Tolga Sayın
19/11/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
digital +workshop exhibition
“The state of being perfect or imperfect in materialistic thinking corresponds to the ‘manufacturing defect’ in mass production. Flawed creation quite ironically glorifies and reinforces the perfect entity by referring, both in physical and metaphysical terms, to the divine refinement, order, conformity and proportion in that perfect entity. Images that are artificially produced, hinder the symbolic articulation between language capability and thinking and replace reality are illusions and they remain superficial images against the reality of the relation between language and image which allows subjective, freedom-driven and imaginable similarities to be established with objects in design within analogical thinking. Obsessive preoccupation or attachment to uniform digital images hinders the dialect of imperfect and perfect entities, and the irony disappears.” The architecture students’ project titled Reinforcing the Perfect opens the topics of “architectural image as an object of production and consumption” and “architecture as a design thought” to debate.
Address: Meclis-i Mebusan Caddesi No: 24 Fındıklı 34427 İstanbul
Imperfection in Product Materials
Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design
Photo by: Merve Sarışın
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Owain Pedgley
Contributors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar Şener-Pedgley, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülay Hasdoğan, Res. Asst. Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Res. Asst. Erçin Okursoy, Res. Asst. Sedef Süner
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
research and design project
Not all materials age gracefully.Only very few materials retain an impeccable and untarnished ‘skin’ decades after first use in a product.On the other hand, for some product sectors, material degradation or material inhomogeneity are viewed as positive attributes to be embraced.The ‘Imperfection in Product Materials’ project run by the Department of Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, will provide a platform for highlighting society’s polarized values regarding material perception and appreciation in everyday products.The ‘Imperfection in Product Materials’ project is carried out by graduate master’s and doctoral students as a five-week research and design project within the course ID725 Materials Experience.Students collectively explored the idea of perfection and imperfection as applied to product material qualities, by making use of formal lecture input and workshops.In the remainder of the project, students worked solo to make either product sectorial analyses or material family analyses regarding the desirability of imperfect material experiences.There is a focus on the generation of imagery to provoke or challenge societal values regarding the appropriateness of materials for everyday products.
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
Polymer Jewellery: Inspired By Nature
Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Industrial Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Sezgin Akan
Contributors: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bahar Şener-Pedgley, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Gülay Hasdoğan, Res. Asst. Yekta Bakırlıoğlu, Res. Asst. Aslı Günay, Erçin Okursoy, Res. Asst. Sedef Süner
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
jewellery exhibition
In the “Polymer Jewellery: Inspired By Nature” project, nature is the students’ source of inspiration. The rapid prototyping method enables forms which are not achievable with materials and methods used in processing traditional jewellery, to be obtained and thus, it protects the sophisticated structure of nature. With this method, complex or plain shapes; simple or difficult details; repeating, growing or monoblock forms can be produced. The pursuit of reflecting nature with the rapid prototyping method invites us to discuss the perfection presented by nature and the so-called imperfection in identical mass-produced objects. The 3rd- and 4th-year students covered this discussion in a six-week workshop course as part of the Jewellery Design Beyond Traditions/Digital Jewellery course.
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
3 Millimeters
Middle East Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinators:Prof. Güven Arif Sargın, Prof. Ayşen Savaş, Assoc. Prof. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on Sundays)
model and digital presentation
The projects, which will introduce models in different scales developed by METU’s Department of Architecture/Digital Design and Production Technologies post-graduate students, will investigate the cases that almost reach perfection and the term of “almost” will be turned into an architectural discourse as a criterion. The first workshop, which was conducted as part of the “3 Millimeters” project – the theme of two international workshops – with architects participating from four European universities, investigates the relation between parametric design and production technologies and conceptualizes the word “scale” with “light.” The second event held in cooperation with Mark West – the founder of C.A.S.T. workshop continuing his research in Canada – challenges the limits of manufacturing textile products and patterns, and seeks the tools of perfection in scale models where the architectural product is always flawed.
Address: Kadir Has Kampüsü (Cibali) Kadir Has Caddesi Cibali – İstanbul
TC Beykent University Faculty of Fine Arts, Departments of Graphic Design, and Communication and Design
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Dr. Barış Atiker
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
workshopexhibition
A design workshop is not only one of the most important places for the pursuit of perfection in design but it is also like a court where “imperfection” is harshly interrogated. The project, jointly conducted by the Departments of Graphic Design, and Communication-Design, is based on this interaction between the students and the instructor during the experiencing process which is one of the fundamental phases of learning. During the exhibition and workshop, the students review the concept of “imperfection” from a typographical perspective rather than seeking perfection; and they also offer the audience the opportunity to experience this with constantly updatable, interactive and moving graphic media.
Address: Beykent Üniversitesi Ayazağa Kampüsü Şişli
TC Haliç University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Photography and Video
Project Coordinator: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Demet Karapınar
05/11/2012-12/12/20012
Reception: 5 November 2012, Monday
photography
“People live in cities. Cities are the products of stubborn and insatiable human beings. Human beings willingly relinquish their perfection and turn into ‘sub-humans’ due to their eternal greediness and never-ending needs.” This photography project presented by the students of the Department of Photography and Video under the title of “Un-Balanced” depicts the “shallow and crowded buildings that we are forced to live in” in a structuralist manner. The sets, each of which reflects a living or working space, symbolize struggling people accepting a life confined to four walls with an aim to emphasize the “abnormality” of such areas which we now readily accept whereas, in reality, they are artificial and against nature.
Address: Haliç Üniversitesi Mecidiyeköy Yerleşkesi Sergi Mekânı, Büyükdere Cad. No:101 Gayrettepe
Perfect Blindness
TC Haliç University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Plastic Arts
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Özge Sinanoğlu
05/11/2012-12/12/20012
Reception: 5 November 2012, Monday
plastic art exhibition
The “Perfect Blindness” project puts forward the proposition that conflicts are inevitable since industrialization-driven change is not suited to the existence of human beings: While human beings focus on reaching perfection by changing the environment and living conditions with their technological facilities and newly acquired capabilities, they have become too “blind” to see that what they actually create is “imperfection” itself. The fact that people are forced to stand on their own two feet to survive the momentum of city life causes them to overlook human relations and deal with more and more personality disorders and conflicts as they are social beings. People who become more and more cold-hearted among the chaos of cities withdraw into their shells and alienate themselves from existence. With their products focused on this theme, the Department of Plastic Arts describes to us that this state of “alienation”, i.e. the perfection promised by urban life, is both an inventor of some of our particular flaws and mirrors other flaws.
Address: Haliç Üniversitesi Mecidiyeköy Yerleşkesi Sergi Mekânı, Büyükdere Cad. No:101 Gayrettepe
As If We’re Flawless
TC Haliç University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Textile and Fashion
Project Coordinator: Prof. Dr. Şebnem R. Temir
05/11/2012-12/12/20012
Reception: 5 November 2012, Monday
textile and fashion exhibition
“Our objective identity emerged when we were born naked, and we will leave the world naked again. The need to cover our bodies forced us to put on clothes; the desire to put our differences to the forefront, the desire to be recognized and hide our flaws has driven us to dress. We not only hide our bodies, but also our spirits and emotions beneath the clothes we wear. We show off our wealth, hide our sadness, and try to look ‘like we are perfect’. As long as we remain slaves to our clothes, we become ‘the stranger’ amongst other people. We begin to face conflicts with our identities and then we are no longer ‘ourselves’. We overdo it so much that we sometimes forget that thin line between what is beautiful and what is ugly.” The works of the students in the department of textile and fashion lead us to question this conflict and cycle.
Address: Haliç Üniversitesi Mecidiyeköy Yerleşkesi Sergi Mekânı, Büyükdere Cad. No:101 Gayrettepe
Escaping Imperfection
TC Haliç University Faculty of Architecture, Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture and Industrial Design
Project Coordinators: Prof.Önder Küçükerman, Asst. Prof. Serhan Uysal
05/11/2012-12/12/20012
Reception: 5 November 2012, Monday
research and design project
Under the theme of “Escape From Imperfection”; the Department of Architecture brings together and exhibits the degree projects that cover residential, education, social facilities, sports and tourism projects; the Department of Interior Architecture brings together and exhibits residential, commercial structures, cultural structures, touristic facilities and indoor projects; the students of the Department of Industrial Products Design bring together and exhibit their additional equipment system with multipurpose, professional and high security apparel which is fit for field conditions.
Address: Haliç Üniversitesi Mecidiyeköy Yerleşkesi Sergi Mekânı, Büyükdere Cad. No:101 Gayrettepe
TC Istanbul Kultur University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Neslihan Dostoğlu, Asst. Prof. Dr. Hakkı Yırtıcı
12/11/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends)
competition exhibition + colloquium
“In the eyes of its residents, Istanbul is like a city of constant motion and it resembles a construction site which changes, grows and gets bigger and bigger each day and looks like an organism that is hard to describe as a whole. Although this organism is made up of individuals, the scale of the city, the problems of daily life, irregular spatial organization and scattered distribution do not permit this. Meanwhile, the real vividness, richness, and heterogeneity of Istanbul stem from the resistance that those individuals have developed against this high scale. This is actually the fight between huge and continuous strategies of the urban system and the spontaneous tactics of those individuals.” In the framework of the theme, the architecture students produce creative spatial solutions, which do not reflect the students’ designer identities, for the tactics they create in their daily lives.
Colloquium Date: 12 November 2012, Monday
Hours: 16.00 – 17.00
Address: İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, Ataköy Yerleşkesi/Bakırköy 34156-İstanbul
Istanbul, Imperfect, Imperfection and Perfection
TC Istanbul Kultur University Faculty of Art and Design, Departments of Communication Design – Multimedia, Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Zafer Ertürk, Prof. Dr. Ferhat Özgür, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selahattin Ganiz, Lecturer Kadir Uyanık, Res. Asst. Dide Akdağ
02/11/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 2 November 2012, Friday – 13.00
(Closed on weekends)
poster, photography and digital presentation
The Department of Communication Design – Multimedia analyzes the shortcomings of a low level of intellectual thinking on environmental and premises design and visualizes these with different descriptions. The effects of flawed/perfect textures on daily life that nobody dares to question are under scrutiny from a critical perspective. On the other hand, the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design presents a critical view on the perfectly legitimized term ‘perfect city design’ in Istanbul by evaluating the term of “imperfection” in the context of “being perfect or not.” Urban transformation projects, which turned into an artificial project as a result of advertisements, and exploitations in housing areas and the criticism directed at those who present the replicates of Istanbul’s unique living areas as ‘a perfect model of life’ are analyzed with architectural discipline.
Address: İstanbul Kültür Üniversitesi, Çağdaş Sanat Atölyesi Ataköy Yerleşkesi/Bakırköy 34156-İstanbul
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Cartoon Animation
Project Coordinators: Lecturer Burak Sahin
13/10/2012-12/11/2012
stopmotion animation
The Department of Cartoon Making-Animation describes the production process of a short animation on the theme of imperfection made with the stopmotion technique, accompanied with a presentation on the parts of the whole animation and how those parts were created. The stories of character design, storyboard design, location design and audio design stages during the production process of an animation form the design agenda of this short animation on the theme of “imperfection.” In addition to the animation, the objects seen in the movie as well as the designs (whether accepted or not), cardboard houses, clay characters, sytrofoam trees, etc. created during the production process will be displayed in the exhibition.
Workshop Presentation Date: 8 November 2012, Thursday
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
“Imperfection” with Posters
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Graphic Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Çetin Erden, Asst. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Eda Bürge
24/10/2012-23/11/2012
Reception Date: 8 November 2012, Thursday – 14.00
poster exhibition
The students address the concept of imperfection with the poster designs that they created during the semester.
They use certain behaviors or cases which could be accepted as imperfection in daily life as the starting point or they utilize typographic manipulations. With funny, challenging, puzzle-like posters or “flawed” posters, the students learn the distinction between perfection and imperfection and transmit this information to the audience.
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
Labyrinth
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Visual Communication Design
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Mehmet Özen
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 22 October 2012, Monday – 13.30
installation
“Istanbul accommodates numerous historical and cultural layers with old-new architectural structures, like a constantly growing intriguing labyrinth… The wall it put up while creating its venue determines the distance to the others. Istanbul is just like an organic structure that articulates, grows and changes with new buildings. It somehow exposes its own issues and solutions. And the guilty party is always looked for on the other side of the wall. The windows and doors provide communication with the street. It is the windows that separate the houses from the streets. It is the curtains that separate the windows from the street. Public areas become the shared area of those in between. ‘Flaw’ is the old’s tolerance of the new, and vice versa. Walls and boundaries are products of tolerance. The labyrinth, on the other hand, is the sum of those tolerances…” The Labyrinth , which the project team created with children having to live and work in the streets, represents the fact that people are lost within their own products created according to their preferences.
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
Hidden History “Balat”
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Mustafa Kara
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 22 October 2012, Monday – 13.30
(Closed on weekends)
digital exhibition + tv show
The 3rd-year students from the Department of Radio-Television-Film, put forward the opinion that Balat – one of the most important neighborhoods that make Istanbul so appealing – hosts a series of flaws according to the contemporary city approach but at the same time several cultural, social and spatial initiatives emerged from those flaws. They also emphasize how flaws can sometimes be entertaining, colorful and exciting while describing human stories from Balat which appear to be “flawed” on their TV show.
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
Encomium to Malformation and a Story: “Phaetons”
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Mustafa Kara
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 22 October 2012, Monday – 13.30
(Closed on weekends)
digital exhibition + tv show
The Princes’ Islands are one of the most important symbols of Istanbul, so are the horse-drawn coaches. Horse-drawn coaches often mentioned with the islands have certain flaws in terms of modern living criteria according to the interpretation of the project team. During the TV show, which addresses the issue of the desire to prohibit the horse-drawn coaches due to their “flaws,” we witness people’s stories on the cultural, social and economic implications of those coaches.
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
Istanbul On The Back Street
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Mustafa Kara
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 22 October 2012, Monday – 13.30
(Closed on weekends)
digital exhibition + tv show
In the “Istanbul in the Back Street” project, cameras focus on people who collect garbage randomly thrown into containers, ensure it is recycled and thus, reduce its impact on environmental pollution. During this process, which includes several management flaws in environmental, social and economic terms, the TV show produced by the 3rd-year students from the Department of Radio-Television-Film demonstrates how the garbage is integrated into recycling, how the garbage collectors are perceived by society and how those people perceive this process from their own perspectives.
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
A Minute Is Too Long
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, TV and Cinema
Project Coordinator: Lecturer Hakan Aytekin
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 22 October 2012, Monday – 13.30
(Closed on weekends)
digital exhibition
“Are all minutes the same length? Do we live and perceive those minutes in the same manner?”
The 3rd-year students from the Department of Radio-Television-Film focused on the above questions and produced more than 20 films, each of which is one-minute in length, at Lecturer HakanAytekinFilmmilim Workshop and they created new wholes by combining these films. With films in only one-minute lengths, they managed to depict the cold silence of death, sleep interrupted by loud noises, and just ordinary time spent watching television. Even in one minute…
Address: Marmara Eğitim Köyü Başıbüyük Mahallesi Maltepe – İstanbul 34854
BUG
TC Maltepe University Faculty of Architecture, Departments of Architecture, Interior Architecture, Nautical Design
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Tülin Görgülü, Asst. Prof. Esra Sakınç, Asst. Prof. Yekta Özgüven, Res. Asst. Melike Atıcı, Res. Asst. Hale Sinirlioğlu, Res. Asst. Hamide Temel, Res. Asst. Bilgen Ataç, Res. Asst. Alper Kurbak, Res. Asst. Beril Yücegüney, Res. Asst. Belis Öztürk, Res. Asst. Bürkan Emre
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
photography, model, digital exhibition
The BUG (Pecularities in Cognition and Practice) event consists of discussions that will be participated in by BülentTanju, ŞebnemYalınayÇinici, Murat Uluğ, Sait Ali Köknar, and BurakHaznedar as well as 6 different workshops: Students and coordinators from different universities present their views of the theme with different designs at the No Offense! (KunterManisa, Bora Yerliyurt, SelimÖkem), Pomi: On the Defects (LeventŞentürk, Arzuİl, HakanKeleş), Echo (DemetIrıklıEryıldız, DemetMutman, MelikeAtıcı, Alp Tamtabak), Urban Bug (TülinGörgülü, EbruErdönmez, SenemKaymazKoca), Mute (GoncaHandeŞahin, MerveÖzhan, ÇağlarBiber, MertSezer, ErsinAbay), and Bugsinbug (EsraSakınç, BerilSulamacı, BilgenAtaç, HandeSinirlioğlu, RecepAygül) workshops.
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Yaşar University Faculty of Communication, Department of Visual Communication Design
Project Coordinators: Prof. Dr. Hakan Ertep, Lecturer Nail Özlüsoylu
13/10/2012-12/12/2012
(Closed on weekends and holidays)
model, digital exhibition and installation
“Uncontrolled immigration is one of the primary dynamics that transform a city. Immigration is the beginning of imperfection. People from different socio-cultural backgrounds, suitcases full of icons from the past, the struggle for existence… And the testimony of an ancient city. Unplanned urbanization, cultural degeneration and a chaos created by the process…” Suitcases covered with hand and face photographs from Istanbul are the subject of the project, which examines the link between humans, the city and chaos. They contain different objects loaded with icons of the past; in the background is a surrealistic collage made by the subjects of the chaos of the city…
Address: İTÜ Taşkışla, İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Fakültesi, Taşkışla Kampüsü 80191 Taksim-İSTANBUL
Istanbul, Istanbul… Chance, Chaos And Coincidence
Yeditepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Visual Communication Design
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Şafak Erkayhan, Instructor Selçuk Aşkın, Instructor Delizia Flaccavento, Res. Asst. Orhun Erdenli, Res. Asst. Merve Çaşkurlu, Res. Asst. Tuğçe Taşkan
06/11/2012-12/12/2012
Reception Date: 6 Kasım 2012, Tuesday – 14.00
pattern, photography, installation, video, digital media
Istanbul, a city growing in its own way, revolting against the rules of planning, controlling and organizing. Istanbul Yeditepe University, Department of Visual Communication Design students interpret Istanbul and the city’s design processes through the terms of “Luck, Chaos and Coincidence.” The exhibition demonstrates how creative designs emerge in a system that is far from perfect in Istanbul, unlike the planned and perfectionist urban design processes specific to Western thought. The exhibition displayed within the campus covers different elements of visual communication including pattern, photography, installation, video, digital media, etc.
Address: Yeditepe Üniversitesi Mühendislik – Mimarlık Fakültesi / İç Avlu İnönü Mah. Kayışdağı Cad. 26 Ağustos Yerleşimi 34755 Ataşehir – İstanbul
Metropolizma: A Self-Megaurbanization Experience
Yeditepe University Faculty of Communication, Department of Advertisement Design and Communication
Project Coordinator: Asst. Prof. Dr. Ayça Can Kırgız
Date: 6 November 2012
Hours: 10.30 – 18.00
colloquium
Istanbul, which turned into a metropolis itself like an organism with minimum urban planning for a large part of the last fifty years, differentiates from others with a sui generis imperfection during the modernization process. This metropolisation experience undergone with organism responses has gone without record and memory. It is a city which is far away from the order, plan and uniformity that would normally come with modernity; contradicts the formulas and methods of urbanization; incompatible with accepted brand-city theories and lies outside the norms of urban formation… People who are new to this city, on the other hand, all admire its dynamism and energy. Istanbul’s experience of turning into a megacity on its own is a subject of “recent oral history” for those who witnessed the last forty years of the process. The Metropolizma colloquium brings together iconic characters from different backgrounds that have records of Istanbul, observe the flaws that in a way created the magic about today’s city, and utilize the megacity imperfection as a source of inspiration in their works. Along with their testimonies, ideas and findings…
Address: Yeditepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Güzel Sanatlar Konferans Salonu 8. kat, İnönü Mah. Kayışdağı Cad. 26 Ağustos Yerleşimi 34755 Ataşehir – İstanbul
Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture
Project Coordinators: Res. Asst. Fulya Özsel Akipek, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Meral Erdoğan, Res. Asst. Serkan Uysal
13/10/2012-16/11/2012
Reception Date: 17 October 2012, Wednesday – 16.30
(Closed on holidays and weekends)
model, plot, digital exhibition
This project investigates the problematic fact that handicraft products are incorporated into mass production with industrialization, metamorphosed as a result of industrial methods based on uniformity with standardized replication, and lose their ‘state of being unique.’ With the digital technologies which represent an industrial method of production that allows non-standardized and customizable products to be manufactured, the relationships that the craft has established or will establish with different types of production such as manual production, mass production and digital production are investigated in this project. The project examines the natural relationships that the craft has established with geography, daily life, culture and materials as well as the states of being “unique and uniform” based on crafts such as basket weaving using natural materials such as cane, bamboo or rattan.
Address: YTÜ Yüksel Sabancı Sanat Merkezi – Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Kampusü L Blok Barbaros Bulvarı Beşiktaş-İstanbul
Uni(que) Form: Mass Individualization
Yıldız Technical University Faculty of Art and Design, Department of Communication Design
Photo by: Esma Çevik
Project Coordinators: Asst. Prof. Dr. Simge Esin Orhun, Res. Asst. Dr. Asım Evren Yantaç
13/10/2012-16/11/2012
Reception Date: 17 October 2012, Wednesday – 16.30
(Closed on holidays and weekends)
mixed media
“Although it is becoming increasingly easier to access the methods and technologies required for design and production in this globalization age, the elements that make a design original and unique are still looked for in culture and geography-specific values. This is because the objects, tools or places that are designed and manufactured are used in daily life through transformation at a multi-layer surface affected by the dynamics of age, culture and geography. “Unique Form” is a design research and production project, in which the design and production fields that were separated into the categories of handcraft, machining and digital production according to their distance from the objects, individuals and cities could be re-interpreted with the use of interactive media through life processes specific to Istanbul. While analyzing cases specific to Istanbul with social, historical, geographical, cultural and current concepts, the ”uniqueness” of the emerging works is examined through the concepts of daily use, interaction, unity in the sense of being specific to Istanbul and mass individualization.
Address: YTÜ Yüksel Sabancı Sanat Merkezi – Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi Kampusü L Blok Barbaros Bulvarı Beşiktaş-İstanbul
