On 22 September 2018 – after two days of previews, conversations, workshops and mental stratching – the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial opened its doors to the public. Curated by Jan Boelen, with Vera Sacchetti and Nadine Botha, “A school of schools” has been distributed in some of the city’s main venues. Here we propose a visual tour of the selected projects, aggregated by the curators in six thematic schools: Unmaking School (located at Akbank Sanat), Currents School (Yapı Kredi Culture Centre), Earth School (Arter), Scales School (Pera Museum), Time School (SALT Galata), Digestion School (Studio-X). The exhibition design is by architect Asli Çiçek and product designer Lukas Wegwerth: a modular system that adapts to different locations and helps make the biennial a unified exhibition.
A School of Schools: A journey in pictures
A first look at the six “schools” that the curators of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial distributed in some of the most important Istanbul’s cultural institutions.
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Yapı Kredi Culture Centre, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Pera Museum, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Arter, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Veduta dell'installazione, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Studio X, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
Installation view, Salt Galata, 4. Istanbul Design Biennial, 2018
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- La redazione di Domus
- 25 September 2018
- Istanbul
Cover image: The Physical Geography of the Sea – Studio Folder (Marco Ferrari, Elisa Pasqual, Pietro Leoni). Photo Delfino Sisto Legnani
Currents School explores information networks, spheres and connections—both digital and analogue, abstract and embodied —to critically examine technologies and hierarchies
Scales School investigates the fluidity of taxonomies, quantifications, and established norms, standards and values, to highlight scientific and cultural biases and assumptions
Earth School asks what natural is, what disaster is, what progress, and who is in charge when the planet and human are forced to renegotiate our precarious relationship
Digestion School learns from metabolic systems, patterns of consumption, cultural rituals and food infrastructure to consider how circular and lifelong learning manifest
Digestion School learns from metabolic systems, patterns of consumption, cultural rituals and food infrastructure to consider how circular and lifelong learning manifest
Time School travels from accelerationism to deep time, through contested pasts and speculative futures, to shift durational perspectives and the objects that dictate them
Unmaking School emphasises that the irrepressible human instinct to be creative is a pedagogical dynamo that drives innovation, redefines work, and reshapes our cities