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April 20, 2012

Istanbul Design Biennial Press Breakfast, Milan


Istanbul Design Biennial was introduced to the international press and design community in Milan.
The Istanbul Design Biennial was introduced to the international press and design community during a press meeting at Barnba Fornasetti’s House in Milan with the attendance of biennial curators Emre Arolat, Joseph Grima and İstanbul Design Biennial director Ozlem Yalim Ozkaraoglu on Thursday Morning, 19 April. During the press meeting, curators Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima, who will present two independent approaches by interpreting the biennial theme separately, shared details of their exhibitions “Musibet” and “Adhocracy” with the press. Istanbul Design Biennial Director Ozlem Yalim Ozkaraoglu presented detailed information about the events held so far in the preparation process and future projects.
The representatives of AD, Archithema, Designboom, Domus, Elle Decoration, Frame, GQ, Icon, Interieurs , Interni, Monocle, RUM, The Guardian and Wallpaper, which are the leading publications from USA, Germany, Belgium, China, France, Holland, England, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Italy, Russia, attended the Istanbul Design Biennial press meeting.
Istanbul Design Biennial Advisory Board members; Material Connexion CEO George Beylerian, industrial designer and founder of Defne Koz Studio Defne Koz, interior architect and founder of Sevil Peach Architecture of Design Sevil Peach and the Director of Vitra Design Museum, Alexander von Vegesack were also among the names who attended the press meeting.

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Posted by İKSV on April 20, 2012

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March 14, 2012

Workshop Program

The workshops held as part of the pre-events programme of the Istanbul Design Biennial reached completion.

The Istanbul Design Biennial organized a series of workshops between 22- 27 March with an aim towards creating a platform where various organizations, institutions, students and individuals representing the sector could meet, interact and learn from each other. Activities based on the Biennial’s theme of “Imperfection” provided opportunities for local and international professionals in creative industries and different brands to meet with university students and share experiences of thought and production processes.

Over a period of 6 days, in 11 different workshops taking place concurrently in 9 different locations, a total of 201 university students had the chance to work closely with approximately 30 international designers.

The international designers who came to Istanbul to participate in the Istanbul Design Biennial workshops included Max Lamb, winner of the Designer of the Future Award; Marc Bretillot, a leading name in food design; Luis Urculo, the renowned architect; Anon Pairot, the product designer especially renowned for her work with leading brands such as Hermes and Fendi; and Amina Agueznay, the jewellery designer known for her innovative designs using natural and everyday materials.

Sponsored by the co-sponsors of the Istanbul Design Biennial; Koray Group of Companies, Vestel, VitrA, Coca Cola, Matraş, Nef and ROMAN Hazır Giyim, the outcome of the Workshops encompassing all the works, ideas, products and the entire process itself will be exhibited in the venues/locations designated for the Biennial’s events programme. The information regarding the venues and events can be found in the Istanbul Design Biennial’s programme booklet and map.

The activities led by premier institutions and teams such as Design Quartier Ehrenfeld, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Made in Şişhane, SALON Amsterdam/Istanbul, Design and Innovation Initiative for Sustainable Life abd TAG Platform were realized in locations designated in consultation with the partner company.

All the participants came together at the Beyoğlu Gençlik Merkezi on Tuesday, March 27 to present the outcome of the workshops.

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Posted by İKSV on March 14, 2012

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March 13, 2012

Istanbul Design Biennial Press Meeting

The programme of the Istanbul Design Biennial, as well as details of biennial’s theme and exhibitions were announced at a press meeting at Galata Greek Primary School, on Monday, 12 March evening. İKSV Chairman Bülent Eczacıbaşı, curators of the Istanbul Design Biennial Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima and Director of the Istanbul Design Biennial Özlem Yalım Özkaraoğlu participated to the press meeting. During the press meeting, curators Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima, who will present two independent approaches by interpreting the biennial theme separately, shared details of their exhibitions “Musibet” and “Adhocracy” with the press.

Meri Komorosano, Chairman of Galata Greek Primary School which will be the host of a cultural event for the first time with the Istanbul Design Biennial made a speech on behalf of the school at the press meeting.

The Istanbul Design Biennial will be held under co-sponsorship of four leading and creative companies of the sector. On behalf of co-sponsors, Chairman of Board of Directors Ahmet Eren on behalf of Eren Holding, Koray Construction Company CEO and Board Member M. Şamil Çapar on behalf of Koray Group of Companies, Vestel Companies Group Chairman of the Executive Board Ömer Yüngül on behalf of Vestel, and Eczacıbaşı Building Products Division Executive Vice President Hüsamettin Onanç on behalf of VitrA participated to the press meeting. Click here for the Press Release.

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Posted by İKSV on March 13, 2012

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March 13, 2012

Galata Private Greek School


Refik Anadol

Galata Greek Primary School with its neo-classic architectural style was constructed in the late nineteenth century for the education of Greek children in Istanbul. The school had to suspend its activities in September 1988, due to the demographic changes that arose in Istanbul during the 60s and 70s. In 2001, it started operating as a nursery school in order to increase the student capacity and improve the quality of education, but was eventually forced to close again in 2007, due to lack of students. Now, the Galata Greek Primary School opens its doors to one of the two main exhibitions of the Istanbul Design Biennial, “Adhocracy”, curated by Joseph Grima. Galata Greek Primary School will also be used during the 18th Istanbul Theatre Festival and the 40th Istanbul Music Festival organised by İKSV.

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Posted by İKSV on March 13, 2012

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March 13, 2012

Istanbul Modern


Murat Germen

The first private museum in Turkey to hold modern and contemporary art exhibitions, the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art was founded in 2004 at an 8000-square-meter warehouse on the shore of the Bosphorus.

Istanbul Modern, with its temporary and permanent exhibition halls, photography gallery, educational and social programs, library, cinema, restaurant, and store, offers a broad array of services aiming to instill a love of the arts in visitors from all walks of life and provide them with the opportunity to participate actively in the fields of art and culture. Through its interdisciplinary approach to the visual arts İstanbul Modern specifically features architectural and design projects in its program.

Within the scope of the 1st Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul Modern hosts Musibet. Curated by Emre Arolat, Musibet is one of the two main exhibitions of the biennial.

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Posted by İKSV on March 13, 2012

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March 7, 2012

Workshop Program

The Istanbul Design Biennial will organise a series of Workshops between 22 and 27 March in order to bring institutions, students, and industrial representatives together with designers to feature design training and enable mutual learning and interaction. The events within the framework of the biennial theme “Imperfection” will provide an opportunity to participants by bringing professionals in local and international creative industries and different brands together with university students and co-experience the thinking and producing processes.

200 university students will have the opportunity to work with approximately 30 international designers in 11 different workshops in different venues for five days. Clay designer Max Lamb with the Designer of the Future Award, chef Marc Bretillot, an important name for culinary designs, Luis Urculo known to the architectural sector, Anon Pairot who made a name with his product designs and his works with important brands like Hermes and Fendi, and Amina Agueznay who designs jewellery with natural and daily materials are among the 30 designers who will come to Istanbul in order to participate to workshops within the Istanbul Design Biennial.

The Istanbul Design Biennial will be held with the support of Coca-Cola, Matraş, Nef and Roman Ready-to-wear as well as the co-sponsors Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA. Works, ideas, products and the process itself, after the Workshops, will be exhibited in venues/places where works during the Istanbul Design Biennial will be created. The information with regard to venues of workshop exhibitions and events will be in the Istanbul Design Biennial programme booklet and map.

The Workshops will be carried out under the leadership of successful institutions and teams such as Domaine de Boisbuchet, Made in Şişhane&Design Quartier Ehrenfeld (More Than Design), SALON/Amsterdam-Istanbul, Design and Innovation Initiative for Sustainable Life and TAG Platform. The works will be carried out at venues determined together with the partner company with the participation of 20 university student.

After the Workshops which will begin on Thursday, 22 March and continue for five days, there will be a general presentation, which will bring all contributors together, at Beyoğlu Youth Centre on Tuesday, 27 March. Presentation will be free of charge and open to general public and workshop leaders will sum their works and present selected examples. General presentation with the participation of the designers will be preview for the workshop exhibitions in the Istanbul Design Biennial.

Participation to the workshops

The Istanbul Design Biennial Workshops will be open to all undergraduate and graduate students in urban design, urban and regional planning, environmental design architecture, interior architecture, industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, fine arts, and new media design departments of relevant universities and will be free of charge.

Participant students suggested by the head of departments of the universities and students applied to the Istanbul Design Biennial will be placed on space-availability basis and in accordance with the order of precedence.

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Posted by İKSV on March 7, 2012

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March 1, 2012

Ethel Baraona Pohl joins the Adhocracy team

Ethel Baraona Pohl will be joining the Adhocracy team.

Ethel Baraona Pohl. Architect, writer and blogger developing her professional [net]work linked to several architecture publications. As contributing editor for different blogs and magazines, she has written articles for Domus, Quaderns, and MAS Context among others. She has been invited to present her work in events like Postópolis! DF, and the international architecture festival Eme3. Co-founder of the independent publishing house dpr-barcelona with César Reyes Nájera, their projects, both digital and printed, subvert the boundaries of conventional publications, approaching to those which are probably the titles of architecture in the future.

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Posted by Elian Stefa on March 1, 2012

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February 16, 2012

Musibet Open Call

OPEN CALL for Musibet

Musibet, curated by Emre Arolat, is one of the two exhibitions comprised in the 1st edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial

The Aestheticization of Context and Anti-Context in Design along the Axis of the Grand Transformation

The backbone of the Istanbul Design Biennial, the first edition of which is to be held at Istanbul Modern in İstanbul from 13 October to 12 December 2012, will be informed by two design approaches which, however much they may seem to be contrary at first sight, nevertheless reveal a surprising convergence owing to their tremendous topicality and pervasiveness. We shall refer to the first of these tendencies as “Context & Specificity”, to the second as “The Aestheticization of Acontextuality & Innovation”. Of the two, the first, in the hands of powers-that-be, transforms context into a tool while fleshing itself out with a dangerous and imposed false-historicity whereas the second “merely” seeks to apply gloss to misplacedness. [ Read more ]

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Posted by İKSV on February 16, 2012

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February 16, 2012

Adhocracy Open Call

OPEN CALL for Adhocracy
Adhocracy, curated by Joseph Grima, is one of the two exhibitions comprised in the 1st edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial

Since its inception as a discipline of industrialisation and modernity, design has come to influence—or even define—almost every facet of contemporary existence. From cities to typefaces via architecture, vehicles, objects, interfaces, and infrastructural systems, acts of design permeate our lives almost to the point of saturation. Design has become so ubiquitous as to have almost become invisible, subsumed into everyday life to the point we forget it is also inevitably a political activity with far-reaching social implications. Today, it stands at one of the most significant crossroads in its brief and conflicted history.

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Posted by İKSV on February 16, 2012

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February 15, 2012

Istanbul Design Biennial Open Call


Gabriele Basilico, Istanbul 2005

The first edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 13 October to 12 December 2012 by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (IKSV) under the co sponsorship of Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA. The deadline for submissions for the two exhibitions, which will be independently curated by the biennial’s curators, Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima within the framework of the biennial theme “Imperfection” (Kusurluluk) is 2 June 2012.

The Istanbul Design Biennial, organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts for the first time, explores a wide range of fields, from urban design (environmental, urban and regional planning) to architecture, photography, industrial, graphic, fashion, textile and interaction design, and all related creative fields.

The theme of the Istanbul Design Biennial is adopted as “Imperfection” (Kusurluluk) at the suggestion of Deyan Sudjic, Director of The Design Museum in London and a member of the Biennial’s advisory board. The two curators of the biennial, Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima will present two different approaches within the framework of the biennial theme. The deadline is 2 June 2012 for project submissions to the Istanbul Design Biennial exhibitions “Musibet” (curated by Emre Arolat) and “Adhocracy” (curated by Joseph Grima). There are no disciplinary or geographic limitations to the projects that can be submitted for inclusion in the biennial.

More information about the Istanbul Design Biennial programme will be released at a press conference in March 2012.

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Posted by İKSV on February 15, 2012

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