13 Tem 2017

Crafting Neighbourhoods @ Visible Award 2017

Crafting Neighbourhoods is long-listed in Visible Awards 2017  
http://www.visibleproject.org/blog/award/2017-award/asli-kiyak-ingin-sevgi-ortac/

Crafting Neighborhoods emerged as a collaboration in 2010. Aslı teaches design, engaging architecture-design departments and craft ateliers and has been running Made in Şişhane project since 2006. Sevgi is a visual artist, teaches multimedia storytelling and initiates paper or web based platforms. Crafting Neighborhoods took part in Istanbul Design Biennial 2012, VCAS; Projections on Education in 2014, Adhocracy Athens in 2015.

INFO: In Istanbul, craft based production operates within a network structure made of clusters that have formed in various neighbourhoods, mainly in the city centre. Crafting Neighborhoods initiative focuses on these neighbourhoods which are under threat of displacement by current urban policies. It emerged as a need for a common ground for arts, design and craft practices to facilitate collaborative and transformative action and knowledge against top down processes.
Hosting face to face interaction and unmediated design practices, ‘craft neighbourhoods’ challenge not only the social and operational segregation between the craft and design communities but also the producer and consumer dichotomy that dominant economic models are based on. We urge the reconsideration of the means of crafts neighbourhoods in the production of urban space and social networks that facilitate knowledge production and sharing in the rapidly transforming city. Initiating workshops, meetings, exhibitions and publications, we experiment with different methods to create situations where people from different positions, experiences and professions can confront each other in practice. We’ve initiated photography and multimedia storytelling workshops for apprentices in collaboration with local schools; organised workshops where design students work with local craftsman to produce objects for the neighbourhood; held meetings in ateliers of craftsman inviting designers, academics, apprentices, students and local residents to think together and to deepen on subjects and urgencies such as the reproduction of space and heritage, master-apprentice-atelier based education, alternative pedagogies and labour processes.

6 Haz 2017

Kuşla Göz Arasında / In The Blink Of A Bird @ Depo

Açılış: 26 Mayıs Cuma, 18:00 Performans: 19:00 Tarih:27 Mayıs 2017 - 30 Temmuz 2017 / Depo İstanbul
Kuşla Göz Arasında, kolektif üretimin imkanlarını arayan, birlikte düşünmenin, hareket etmenin, yola çıkmanın, karar vermenin usul ve yöntemleri üzerine düşünen bir grup insanın, Apartman Projesi'nin ev sahipliğinde 2016 yılında başladıkları bir ortak çalışmanın ürünü. 16 Temmuz'a kadar Tütün Deposu'nda devam edecek etkinliklerden bu sayfa aracılığıyla haberdar olabilirsiniz.

"In The Blink Of A Bird" is the product of a collaborative work initiated by a group of individuals who pursue the possibilities of collective production, and reflect on the ways and methods of thinking, acting, departing and deciding together. The project which is hosted by the Apartment Project was launched in 2016.

"In The Blink Of A Bird" is an exhibition expanding through invites and participations based on the conceptual and structural basis constructed by Selda Asal, Fatma Belkıs, Şafak Çatalbaş, Elmas Deniz, Borga Kantürk, Evrim Kavcar, Sevgi Ortaç, Gümüş Özdeş, Gökçe Süvari, and Merve Ünsal.


Current contributors are Ali Miharbi, Artıkişler Collective, Ata Kam, Azra Deniz Okyay, Bengi Güldoğan, Berk Asal, Braxton Hood, Burak Delier, Ceren Oykut, Didem Pekün, Didem Erk, Emine Ekinci, Ezgi Kılıçaslan, Florian Wüst, Göksu Kunak, Gülsün Karamustafa, Güneş Terkol, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, İrem Tok, İz Öztat, Julia Lazarus, Komet, Lara Ögel, Liken (Evrim Kavcar, Başak Kaptan and Evren Erlevent), Mehtap Baydu, Merve Kılıçer, Nihan Somay, Onur Ceritoğlu, Özgür Atlagan, Özgür Erkök Moroder, Özlem Şimşek, pad.ma, Sasha Povzner, Sevim Sancaktar, Suat Öğüt, Sümer Sayın, Yasemin Özcan & Sena Başöz, and Yasemin Nur, with new names adding in the course of the process and the exhibition.

18 Nis 2017

Food versus the big city of Istanbul @ Farming Matters



f: Uygar Bulut

18 April 2017



Istanbul, like many other cities, is under heavy pressure from urban development projects. In the face of this threat, the DÜRTÜK collective supports small scale farmers in and around Istanbul by organising reliable demand for the produce from urban gardens, and by building a supportive community around them. This initiative not only provides urban residents with local and fairly priced vegetables, but is also a line of defence against the destruction of the city’s historic vegetable gardens and a space of action in Istanbul’s violent, paralysing atmosphere...