BiennialOctober 2, 2020
5th Istanbul Design Biennial will open on October 15th, 2020
The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, entitled Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one and curated by Mariana Pestana with Sumitra Upham (Curator of Programmes) and Billie Muraben (Assistant Curator & Deputy Editor), opens to the public on 15 October 2020. Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) under the sponsorship of VitrA and with the support of Republic of Turkey Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the biennial will be held with a new structure with various projects, mostly being produced locally in Istanbul, by participants from various countries and disciplines, intervening in exhibition venues, outdoor spaces in Istanbul and digital platforms. The projects displayed in the exhibition venues will be open to visit until 15 November 2020 whereas the interventions in the city, research projects and video series will continue to evolve until 30 April 2021.
The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial brings together ideas and projects that seek to define a new role for design based on empathy. Designers adopt sensitive, diplomatic, sometimes therapeutic functions, with the aim of connecting us with one another but also with the world around us, with other species, with microorganisms, soil, water and even the universe. This biennial offers critical tools and alternative pathways in face of urgent climate and economic crises, a general state of social deprivation, and an exhausted global industrial model. Designs for more than one are those that take into consideration not just their immediate user or client but the many constituents and complex entanglements inherent to any design process.
The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial presents a generative programme comprising three main axes: an online series titled Critical Cooking Show, a set of research projects on the Mediterranean basin to be archived at the Library of Land and Sea, and a series of interventions in the city titled New Civic Rituals. The Critical Cooking Show is a digital programme of lectures and performances that form a critical commentary on the relation to food today. Episodes will be published on e-flux Architecture, biennial website and İKSV’s YouTube channel, between 18 October 2020 – 28 February 2021. Library of Land and Sea, a depository for 10 research projects that we commissioned to artists, designers and activists that are investigating politics of land and sea – and their connection to food – in the Mediterranean basin. Visitors can book a table at the library and explore the various research materials at ARK Kültür from 15 October 2020 to 15 November 2020, with the projects continuing to evolve throughout 2021. New Civic Rituals projects will be a series of interventions that generate new kinds of encounters with new public infrastructures across scales and bodies, comprising people but also birds, stars, plants, and microbes. This programme is developed in collaboration with the Young Curators Group, a team of curators based in Istanbul responsible for establishing links with the specific context of the city. The Young Curators Group consists of Nur Horsanalı, Ulya Soley and Eylül Şenses. The projects will spread across the city of Istanbul at Kalamış Park, Moda Park, Fenerbahçe Park Community Garden, Kuzguncuk Urban Garden and Kuzguncuk Pier in the Anatolian side; Beşiktaş Pier and Karaköy Pier in the European side, as well as Pera Museum.
For more information visit: https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en
The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial brings together ideas and projects that seek to define a new role for design based on empathy. Designers adopt sensitive, diplomatic, sometimes therapeutic functions, with the aim of connecting us with one another but also with the world around us, with other species, with microorganisms, soil, water and even the universe. This biennial offers critical tools and alternative pathways in face of urgent climate and economic crises, a general state of social deprivation, and an exhausted global industrial model. Designs for more than one are those that take into consideration not just their immediate user or client but the many constituents and complex entanglements inherent to any design process.
The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial presents a generative programme comprising three main axes: an online series titled Critical Cooking Show, a set of research projects on the Mediterranean basin to be archived at the Library of Land and Sea, and a series of interventions in the city titled New Civic Rituals. The Critical Cooking Show is a digital programme of lectures and performances that form a critical commentary on the relation to food today. Episodes will be published on e-flux Architecture, biennial website and İKSV’s YouTube channel, between 18 October 2020 – 28 February 2021. Library of Land and Sea, a depository for 10 research projects that we commissioned to artists, designers and activists that are investigating politics of land and sea – and their connection to food – in the Mediterranean basin. Visitors can book a table at the library and explore the various research materials at ARK Kültür from 15 October 2020 to 15 November 2020, with the projects continuing to evolve throughout 2021. New Civic Rituals projects will be a series of interventions that generate new kinds of encounters with new public infrastructures across scales and bodies, comprising people but also birds, stars, plants, and microbes. This programme is developed in collaboration with the Young Curators Group, a team of curators based in Istanbul responsible for establishing links with the specific context of the city. The Young Curators Group consists of Nur Horsanalı, Ulya Soley and Eylül Şenses. The projects will spread across the city of Istanbul at Kalamış Park, Moda Park, Fenerbahçe Park Community Garden, Kuzguncuk Urban Garden and Kuzguncuk Pier in the Anatolian side; Beşiktaş Pier and Karaköy Pier in the European side, as well as Pera Museum.
For more information visit: https://tasarimbienali.iksv.org/en
