Sarraf Galeyan Mekanik displays in this opening film of the first Istanbul Design Biennial’s ‘Musibet’ exhibition, the conceptual framework, general approach, intentions, problematics lying beneath and reasoning of the exhibition. Depicting a journey that starts from Kartal seashore and ends in İstanbul Modern which calls on to 25 neighbourhoods in a 10-hour drive, it discusses topics such as “urban ownership”, “delocalization of production”, “transportation/accessibility” and “government vs. public” through the stops of this journey. On the route, the words of inhabitants, tradesmen, craftsmen and producers, passengers; briefly the urbanites from a wide range of social groups are accompanied with the words of representatives of NGO’s, specialists and academics. The stage is set for the team at EAA, after a barrage of tiresome, deconstructive and cacophonous images and words.

Sarraf Galeyan Mekanik
Emine Seda Kayım – Creative Director
Erhun Erdoğan – Music Production
Memduh Can Tanyeli – Director

Emre Arolat Architects
Emre Arolat
Nil Aynalı
Özge Ertoptamış
Deniz Kösemen
Ece Çiper

Contributors
Merve Akı
Cihan Uzunçarşılı Baysal
Alev Erkilet
Arzu Erturan
Hacer Foggo
Haluk Gerçek
Korhan Gümüş
Murat Güvenç
Aslı Kıyak İngin
Yegan Kahya
Funda Oral
Derya Nüket Özer
Mustafa Sönmez
Çiğdem Şahin
Gülsün Tanyeli
Uğur Tanyeli
Erman Topgül
Kevser Üstündağ
Murat Cemal Yalçıntan
Hakkı Yırtıcı

FEBAYDER
Gülsuyu-Gülensu Mahalle Dernekleri
Kahraman Bostan Hareketi
Kuzguncuklular Derneği
Sarıyer Mahalle Dernekleri Platformu
Tahribat-ı İsyan