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12/10/2012

Istanbul Design Biennial

Different venues, Istanbul

In its 40 anniversary, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts is yet again leading the way in hosting Istanbul’s first Design Biennial. Realized by İKSVn in co-sponsorship of Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA, Istanbul Design Biennial will take place between 13 October – 12 Dovember 2012.

Istanbul Design Biennial opens its doors on October 13 for two months, with exhibitions and events exploring creative products and projects from all disciplines of the creative industries in major fields from urban design, architecture, industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, new media design, and is ready to set the stage for Istanbul as a city of design.

Istanbul Design Biennial will take place in two distinct exhibition spaces under the curatorship of Emre Arolat and Joseph Grima, within the framework of the theme “Imperfection”, as suggested by Deyan Sudjic, Istanbul Design Biennial advisory board member and Director of the Design Museum in London. Emre Arolat’s exhibition “Musibet” in Istanbul Modern and Joseph Grima’s exhibition “Adhocracy” in Galata Greek Primary School will bring together roughly 100 projects of more than 200 designers and architects from 46 countries, with works ranging from random objects, video installations, models, open air settings and photographs to interactive works where visitors can create their own designs.

Along with main exhibitions in two venues, events will be spread across the city through Academic Programme, Workshops, Paralel Participants’ Events and Design Walks. Biennial will present different axes of debate on design to the attention of Istanbul’s cultural life through the Film Screenings, debates and panels. All the events and exhibition venues of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be tracable through the Creative City Map of Design Biennial.

ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL EXHIBITIONS

EMRE AROLAT: “MUSİBET”
ISTANBUL MODERN

Curated by Emre Arolat, “Musibet” congregates more than 30 projects of 95 designers and architects exploring and questioning today’s Istanbul in terms of its current planning and urban transformation. Defined as an “installment” by the curator in consideration of the selected works and their positioning visa vis the exhibition venue, “Musibet” is intended to serve as a platform for new questions rather than finding answers. In displaying in a custom designed 1,400 metre square venue with multi-fold reflections of musibet (calamity) through various works of modelings, video, photography and interactive games, the idea of “design not being a phenomenon that is far from daily life that legitimizes everything it touches” will be underlied.

Under the topic “Transformation”, the urban transformation projects will be put on the table which these days are on top of the agenda as a sort of calamity with the coming into force of the urban transformation law and the efforts of gentrification. A sort of imposition of identity coming into picture with the recently built courthouses, schools and administrative buildings, along with the massive social housing projects developed by TOKI as one of the actors of this process will be analysed in juxtaposition to each other. On the other hand, under the heading “Anti-Context” the parallels in the universal consent, the changes in new technologies, architectural and fashion design practices of the new world will be debated.

JOSEPH GRIMA: “ADHOCRACY”
PRIVATE GALATA GREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL

The exhibition curated by Joseph Grima which is dynamic, innovative and defies the the traditional processes between the designer, user and producer takes its name “Adhocracy” from the opposite of bureaucracy. Along with the products and objects of close to 120 designers and architects, projects, videos and photography works along with modelings and their prototypes customarily prepared for the biennial will be exhibited in a field across 2,300 metre square wide in all the floors of the Private Galata Greek Primary School.

The exhibition that reinterprets the act of design in its economic and political context harbors many interactive installations where visitors can create their own designs, along with projects revealing that creativity can now be captured with many elements surrounding us as the end users are increasingly becoming part of the production processes. Novel and abrupt creative processes like the open source movement and the emergence of cultural operators will also meet the audience through the exhibition.

The concept “Adhocracy” will be open to debate in debates and panels to take place at the ground floor of the Private Galata Greek Primary School for two months period.

ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL SPREADS ALL AROUND THE CITY WITH VARIOUS EVENTS DURING TWO MONTHS

Istanbul Design Biennial will spread across the city with the academic programs, workshop exhibitions, seminar programs, film screenings program and the parallel participants’ events.

PROJECTS ON “IMPERFECTION” FROM 26 UNIVERSITIES AS PART OF THE ACADEMIC PROGRAM

In order to enhance participation in the field of education for the events, Istanbul Design Biennial will host exhibitions and projects with various perspectives on the main theme of the biennial through its Academic Program it implements in partnership with 76 departments in 26 universities in Ankara, İzmir, Eskişehir and Cyprus along with in Istanbul.

The various faculties and departments gathered around the disciplines of architecture, industrial design, interior architecture, graphic design, fashion design, urban design, communications’ design, new media design of universities will present the products and ideas they have developed during the workshops, course projects and competitions on the theme of biennial during the 2011-2012 academic year in simultaneous order with the Istanbul Design Biennial will present these in their own campuses.

The projects of the universities that have participated into the Academic Program will be open for visit in 23 different locations of Istanbul free of charge. The details of the projects involved in the Academic Program can be accessed from the website istanbultasarimbienali.iksv.org

DESIGN WALKS IN DIFFERENT SPOTS OF ISTANBUL

Design Walks to be organized within the scope of the Istanbul Design Biennial in sponsorship of Pırlant will offer opportunities to visit more than 90 shops, workshops, manufacturing shops and architectural structures selected on the premise of their design. These Design Walks that will include religious structures in Kuzguncuk to shoe design and manufacture workshops in Nişantaşı; wrought copper masters in Grand Bazaar to jewelry design shops and workshops in Çukurcuma will enrich the participants’ understanding and experiences on design.

Design Walks will start on November and will be composed of 7 distinct routes including in Kuzguncuk, Beyoğlu-Cihangir-Galatasaray, Şişhane-Galata, Nişantaşı-Teşvikiye, Sultanahmet, Fener-Balat ve Karaköy. These will be organized in groups of 20 people with the company of a private gudie in Fridays and Saturdays until the end of the Biennial, and will offer opportunities for participants to gain information and make observations on the various disciplines and different worlds of design.

For more detailed information on Design Walks, ticket prices and participation you can contact designwalk@istanbuldesignbiennial.org.

EXHIBITIONS FROM THE WORKSHOP STUDIES SPREAD OVER AROUND ISTANBUL

During the 11 distinct Workshop Studies held to bring together institutions, students and members of industry within the framework of preliminary events between the dates 22-27 March 2012, 250 university students had the opportunity to work and develop projects with nearly 30 international designers.

Winner of the Designer of the Future Award clay designer Max Lamb; one of the leading figures of food design Marc Bretillot; renown architect Luis Urculo; Anon Pairot well known for his collaborations with leading brands like Hermes and Fendi; and Amina Agueznay who designs precious ornaments with natural and daily materials are among the designders that have come to Istanbul to participate these workshops.

Works led by foremost intiatives and organisations like Design Quartier Ehrenfeld, Domaine de Boisbuchet, Made in Şişhane, SALON Amsterdam/İstanbul, Sürdürülebilir Yaşam için Tasarım ve İnovasyon Girişimi ve TAG Platform were executed in venues determined with the partner organisations.

The products, projects, drawings and all the materials pertinant to this process sponsored by Absolut Blank, Coca-Cola, Matraş, Nef ve ROMAN, along with the co-sponsors Koray Group of Companies, Vestel and VitrA will be displayed in various venues concurrently with the Istanbul Design Biennial following October 13th. Info about venues and events are accessible from Istanbul Design Biennial website, program booklest and innovative urban map.

"FILM SCREENINGS" IN DESIGN BIENNIAL

Through its Film Screenings Program, Istanbul Design Biennial will present its followers a rich movie selection of 18 documentary and video screenings from 8 countries covering the many creative disciplines. Ticket holders of the Istanbul Design Biennial will have the opportunity to attend these screenings that will take place in Pera Museum, French Cultural Center and Karaköy Building of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey for 19 days in November.

Among the movies that cover a broad spectrum of fields like fashion design, product design, graphic design and gastronomy, there will be screenings of documentaries on the legendary designers like Herbert Matter, Karl Lagerfeld, Norman Foster, hilippe Starck and Yves Saint Laurent as well as of movies shot by renown diretors like Miao Wang and Ben Loeterman.

As part of the Film Screenings Program, Gary Hustwit's world famous trio Helvetica, Objectified and Urbanized, with each focusing on one distinct discipline of the design discipline will be among the list of screenings, along with a panel to be held with the participation of Gary Hustwit himself.

The complete program of the " Film Screenings Program " will be available from the website istanbultasarimbienali.iksv.org.

PARALLEL PARTICIPANTS' EVENTS IN DESIGN BIENNIAL

Parallel Participant companies and architecture/design studios that operate in the creative industries will hold their events relevant with the thematics of the biennial at their own venues, presenting their institutional culture to the view of visitors.

Along with prominent Turkish designers, thinkers and opinion leaders like Prof. Dr. İlhan Tekeli, Ali Cindoruk, Ela Cindoruk, Ayşe Birsel, Koray Özgen, world reknown designers like Marcel Wanders, Giulio Cappellini, Filip Pagowski and Bibi Seck will also participate in the events of the Parallel Participants, the hosters of which include companies and studios +D Group, Arzum, BMS, Camhane, ÇEBİ, Dhoku, Dilek Hanif, Ersa, Collection, Milli Reasürans Arts Gallery, Mozaik, NORDist, Tayfun Mumcu, Zebra Design Factory.

Information regarding the workshops, exhibitions, panels, product tanıtım, talks with designers and video screenings can be found at the Istanbul Design Biennial website, program booklet and innovative urban map.

SEMINAR PROGRAM IN DESIGN BIENNIAL

During the Istanbul Design Biennial, many debate sessions, talks and conferences will be held at the Istanbul Metropolitan Branch of Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Has Hasköy İplik Factory, İstanbul Modern and Private Galata Greek Primary School. Among the seminar program participants are director of Harvard University's GSD-Public Space, Art and Design program Krzysztof Wodiczko; Dean of London Royal College of Art Ute Meta Bauer; Gwangju Biennale Foundation Direktor Yongwoo Lee; Dean of Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Mark Wigley; writer, curator and architecture historian Zeynep Çelik and architect Felicity D. Scott.

OPENING EVENTS OF ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

Istanbul Design Biennial will turn Istanbul into a hub of world design through the various events it will hold during its opening week, as well as in hosting the many prominent names from the international media and design.

As part of curator Emre Arolat's "Musibet" exhibition, a seminar will be held with the participation of Rotterdam Architecture Biennial officials and Presidents of Rotterdam and Amsterdam Municipalities within the framework of Netherlands - Turkey 400. year anniversary in diplomatic relations.

Istanbul Design Biennial's seminar sponsor Audi Urban Future Initiative will hold a four day conference in partnership with the New Museum. This year held under the title “Kullanılmamış Başkent /Untapped Capital”, Idea City Istanbul will explore the cities of the future, taking reference from the principle that arts and culture are the driving forces that enliven city centers.

The competition and award ceremony “Audi Urban Future Initiative Awards” held by Audi Urban Future Initiative will take place in Istanbul at the evening of October 18th as part of the biennial.

ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL PUBLICATIONS

Three separate publications are prepared for the Istanbul Design Biennial. Istanbul Design Biennial Innovative Urban Map displaying the biennial exhibitions and parallel events will be disseminated free of charge in Biennial venues as well as in various centers of the city. Creative City Map will be published with the support of TUSKON (Turkish Confederation of Businessman and Industrialists).

Istanbul Design Biennial Program Booklet with all the details of the exhibitions and events within the Biennial will be on sale from the ticket offices of the events and IKSV.

Furthermore, prepared in 3 volumes and as a reference document in the field of design, Istanbul Design Biennial Catalogue will also be available on sale for the duration of the biennial. The catalogue was designed by the Istanbul Design Biennial website and the designers of the DOMUS Magazine Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual.

"New City Reader" Continues Living on the Streets During the Biennial.
"New City Reader" published by the Istanbul Design Biennial bi-weekly since May, with each issue edited by guest editors from architects, theorists and researchers will continue to exist in various locations in the city until the end of the biennial. The content of the "New City Reader", in each issue prepared with different titles and articles on various aspects of the city, architecture and public space, is accessible from the website istanbultasarimbienali.iksv.org.

The guest editors of the "New City Reader", Associate Curator of Adhocracy Pelin Tan, Curator of Istanbul Design Biennial Emre Arolat, Chief Curator of Lisbon Architecture Triennal Betrice Galilee and architect Ömer Kanıpak, has prepared issues with titles “Gündem/Agenda”, “Eşik/Threshold”, “Bulmaca/Puzzle”, “Yıldız Falı/Horoscope”, “Mektuplar/Letters” and “Endüstri/Industry”.

Orhan Pamuk, Joseph Kanon, Charles Jencks, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Alejandro Zaero-Polo, Levent Şentürk, Murat Güvenç, Uğur Tanyeli, Korhan Gümüş, Kazys Varnelis, Stavros Stavrides, Aslı Kıyak İngin, Artin Usta and Sevgi Ortaç are among the academics, writers, architects, critics, artists, curators and urban sociologs that have contributed to the paper.

ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL BOARD OF ADVISERS

Among the members of the Advisory Board of Istanbul Design Biennial are industrial designer and Bahcesehir University academic Assistant Prof. Dr. Mehmet Asatekin, Material Connexion CEO George Beylerian, art historian and Chief Curator of Istanbul Modern Art Museum Levent Çalıkoğlu, Dean of Hong Kong Polytechnic University's Faculty of Design Prof. Dr. John Heskett, industrial designer and founder of Defne Koz Studio Defne Koz, architect and founder of Koleksiyon Furniture Faruk Malhan, interior architect and founder of Sevil Peach Architecture and Design Sevil Peach, Director of Design Museum London Deyan Sudjic, Honorary Member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. İlhan Tekeli and Director of the VitrA Design Museum Alexander von Vegesack.

ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL WEBSITE

Prepared as an interactive space and a blog with its design undertaken by Marco Ferrari and Elisa Pasqual and its editorial work by Joseph Grima and his team, in Istanbul Design Biennial Website (istanbultasarimbienali.iksv.org) you will be able to find out about up to date program information along with various pieces and opinions written by the curators and the participants.

A SPECIAL COLLECTION BY THE IKSV DESIGN SHOP FOR THE ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

Special order products for the Istanbul Design Biennial ordered to 15 designers by the IKSV Design Shop will be on sale in IKSV Design Shop along with on stands at the Istanbul Modern Shop and Private Galata Greek Primary School. For detailed information, visit: www.iksvtasarim.com

SUPPORTERS OF ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

Istanbul Design Biennial will be held by Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation in co-sponsorship with Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies and VitrA.

Along with co-sponsors Eren Holding, Koray Group of Companies and VitrA, supporters of Istanbul Design Biennial also include Absolut Blank, Coca-Cola, Matraş, Nef and ROMAN. İstanbul Metropolitan Branch of the Chamber of Architects of Turkey, Material ConneXion İstanbul, Dükkan Steak House, Department of Ceramics and Glass Design of the Mimar Sinan University of Fine Arts (MSGSÜ), Pera Museum and French Cultural Center are among the venue supporters of the Istanbul Design Biennial.

Audi Urban Future Initiative undertakes the seminar sponsorship while TUSKON (Turkish Confederation of Businessman and Industrialists) sponsors biennial's Creative City Map.
Martı Istanbul Hotel assumes the accomodation sponsorship of the biennial. Other supporting organisations of the biennial include Jotun Boya, UPM, +90 ArtıDoksan Hızlı İmalat Teknolojileri San. ve Tic. AŞ, CEVA Logistics and Adahan Hotel.

Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation is supported also by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Governorship of Istanbul, Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Beyoglu Municipality.
All festivals of the Istanbul Culture and Arts Foundation are supported by Leading Sponsor Eczacıbaşı Holding, Official Airline Sponsor Turkish Airlines, Official Communication Sponsor Vodafone and Official Carrier DHL Express, Service Sponsors Ergo Insurance and GFK.

Corporate visuals of the biennial are prepared by TWBA.

TICKETS OF ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

Tickets for the exhibitions of Istanbul Design Biennial can be purchased from Biletix outlets, IKSV (Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building Sadi Konuralp Avenue No:5 Şişhane, all days except Sunday between 10.00-18.00) and the main exhibition venues (Private Galata Greek Primary School and Istanbul Modern).

Ticket prices are; 20 TL and 10 TL (primary school students, academics, teachers and visitors older than 65 years old).
Fee for participation for the daily guided tours in the exhibition venues is 20 TL for those with the regular tickets, 10 TL for those with discounted tickets. For groups with 20 or more visitors regular tickets are purchasable at 15 TL, discounted tickets at 7 TL. Guided tours for group with regular tickets are 15 TL, with student tickets are 7 TL. Lale Card owners will benefit from up to %25 discounts in biennial tickets.

"Unlimited Tickets" for Istanbul Design Biennial
Holders of 50 TL unlimited tickets valid for 2 people will be entitled to have biennial program booklet free of charge, discounts at varying rates in cafes, restaurants, bookshops and music shops to be designated during the biennial, as well as unlimited access to all the venues during the preliminary exhibition period on October 11-12th. "Unlimited Tickets" will be sold at 40 TL for sales of 20 and above quantities.

You can also be a Supporter of the Istanbul Design Biennial by Buying a Biennial Special Ticket Holders of 150 TL special tickets valid for 2 people will not only be personally contributing to the biennial, but also have the privilidge of having his/her name posted on a board placed in biennial venues, the right to visit biennial venues along with the biennial team during the 11-12 October preliminary period, participate in the private biennial events and parties with special guests and designers, unlimited access to all venues, free of charge biennial program booklet and discounts at varying rates in cafes, restaurants, bookshops and music shops to be designated during the biennial.

VENUES AND TIMES OF THE ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL

Private Galata Greek Primary School
Kemeraltı Venue. No:25 Galata, Istanbul
Everyday except Mondays at 10.00-19.00, on Thursdays at 10.00-20.00

İstanbul Modern
Meclis-i Mebusan Avene, Liman İşletmeleri Sahası, Karaköy
Everyday except Mondays at 10.00-18.00, on Thursdays at 10.00-20.00
Both venues will be open at the opening week on October 15th.
Istanbul Design Biennial exhibitions will also be open to visitors during the festival of sacrifice, except for its first day.

Event and exhibition venues of the "Academic Programme", "Workshops", "Paralel Participants’ Events" and "Design Walks" within the framework of the Istanbul Design Biennial will be traceble via the Istanbul Design Biennial Innovative Urban Map.

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