Good Design Izmir_4 “Cycles”
This year’s İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir events are based on the theme of “Cycles”. Workshops (11-22 Oct), exhibitions (18 Oct-3 Nov) and talks (18-20 Oct) are scheduled for the second half of the month of October. We interpret the theme in the broadest sense and try to address a wide range of design-related issues including ecological thinking, artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies, production cycles, the life cycle of design, reverse engineering, circular design, etc. The main question that motivates this year’s events is: “How might we conceive a design practice that breaks with the prevailing notions of linear progress and consumption-driven growth?”
The world is facing an uncertain future with global warming, climate change, reduction of biological diversity, rising global population, energy crisis, depleted natural resources, and environmental pollution all threatening the very core of our existence. How can we formulate a more comprehensive outlook on the world in our attempt to wrestle with such developments, an outlook that tries to define a new notion of ‘the common good’ extending beyond the human species and engages with the newly emerging concerns of ‘planetary thinking’? How might design contribute to this search for the welfare of the earth today and tomorrow? İyi Tasarım/Good Design İzmir_4 invites designers from different disciplines to participate in this debate.
Panels and Talks Program (provisional)
October 18, Friday
Guided Tour • Good Design Izmir_4 Workshops
Guided tour led by workshop organizers
Panel • The Breathing City: The Place and Promise of Inner City Streams in Izmir’s Future
Adnan Kaplan, Ege University
Koray Velibeyoğlu, Izmir University of Technology
Hande Gündel
Bilun Arıkan
Panel • Urban Cycles: Cultural Heritage, Resilience, Immigration
Ayşe Adanalı, Center for Spatial Justice
Gül Köksal, Haliç Solidarity
Zeynep Arda, Izmir University of Economics
Ender Peker, Sabancı University
Public Talks • Guiding Experiences in Planetary Thinking
İrem Çağıl, Sinek Sekiz Publishing House
Aysun Sökmen, 8100
Merve Tekin, Obaruhu Bio-Architecture and Art
Uygar Özesmi, Good4Trust
Emrah Bilge, Mind Your Waste Foundation
Keynote Speech
Thomas Thwaites, Rhode Island School of Design
October 19, Saturday
Panel • Recycle/Downcycle/Upcycle: Designing the Lifecycle of Design Products • 4T Design and Design History Society Association
Gökhan Mura, Izmir University of Economics
Şölen Kipöz, Izmir University of Economics
Can Gündüz, Izmir Institute of Technology
Panel • Designing in Sync with Ecological Cycles
Aslıhan Demirtaş, KHORA Office / Kadir Has University
Serdar Aşut, Delft University of Technology
Özlem Ünsal, Kadir Has University
Eray Çaylı, London School of Economics
Panel • Designing for the Circular Economy
Burak Emre Altınordu, Vestel Elektronik A.Ş.
Ömer Hacıömeroğlu, Design for Zero, Design and Innovation for the Circular Economy
Yasemin Köse Artut, ROKA
Emir Drahşan, Emir Drahsan Architecture/Planning & Vcycle
Panel • The Second Life of the Designed World
Onur Can Çaylı, Istanbul Media Academy
Nermin Köse, Sustainable Fashion Platform
Utku Lomlu, Lom Creative
Bager Akbay
October 20, Sunday
Panel • Designing the Post-Human Future
Onur O. Akşit, Ege University
Aslı Favaro, Ege University
Aslı Oral, Ege University
Mehmet Yakın, Ege University
İpek Ek, Yaşar University
Panel • Accessible, Women- and Age-Friendly City Bornova
Mercan Efe Güney
Ayşe Özen
Ayşegül Dirmit
Büşra Üstündağ
Ecehan Mertoğlu
Nofa Arslan
Semra Başer
Sündüz Sarıca
Tuğçe Taşduvar
Uzay Fakıoğlu
Panel • Design for the Sea III
Osman Erkurt, 360 Degrees Association for Historical Research
Emrah Erginer, Dokuz Eylül University, Maritime Faculty
Panel • Sustainability in Stage Design and Production
Cem Çevikayak, Altındağ Community Theatre & Tiyatro4
Derya Efe Uluca, Tiyatro4
Işınsu Ersan, Dokuz Eylül University
Feyza Tatar, City Theatre of Manisa
CYCLIC WHEELS-VERTICAL HIERARCHIES
Life on earth, which was embraced by a linear timeline with no return, provides a stage of struggle consisting of cycles that human has complied with but still in search of a state of domination. Having experienced of existing only for thousands of years compared to billions of years of age of the Earth, humans tend to corrupt the natural cycle by digressing the balanced relation established with the nature, in a way inserting the hierarchy of needs just like a knife into the wheel of natural cycle.
Even this hopeless fight of humans against omnipotent Nature brings short lived, relative gains along, which can be called nothing but only a Pyrrhic victory. Yet, humans chose a dominating role through increasing population and developing technology against nature but they must convert their breeding practice of gene transferring into an intellect-based practice of existing compatible with nature’s cycle.
The task of protecting the delicate balance between meeting the needs of the humans and the continuation of the cycle is at the hands of the designers who, by their creativity, touch the lives of ordinary people by creating spaces and objects that become part of their daily lives. Having accepted the necessity of creating an equalitarian living on earth rather than treating the other stakeholders (no matter organic or inorganic) to maintain the sustainability of life, it becomes the duty of the designer to ensure such equality.
This exhibition brings a light into the worldview of the young brains educated in the departments of design of various fields in the institutions in Izmir. It is worth bearing in mind while visiting the exhibition that we still have a long way to go to establish an understanding that we (humans) are not superior but only equal to the other beings on Earth. Yet, it gives hope to observe the awareness also reflected in designs.
Sections
Starting form the End…
From the hands of men, the Apocalypse will come…
| İsim/Proje ismi |
| Alp Yaprak/Linos |
| Dila Katlan/X-Ray ve Memento mori |
Not my, but my physiology wants…
Everything starts with fulfillment of the basic needs…
| İsim/Proje ismi |
| Sevinç Zeynep Ellez/Yığma yemek takımı |
| Kübra Hacer Çağlar/Ye-Giy-Tutsak Et |
| Derviş Cemal Akçiçek /Coğrafi Bilgi Sistemleri |
| Gizem Öztürk/Denizli İl Tarım Arazileri |
| Sena Kayacan/Mate |
| Alp Arda Gönenmiş/Nefes alan kuleler |
| Beste Öndül/Refleks |
| İpek Bolel/Pinha Pharma |
Let the World turn around, let the cycle continue and me be safe…
A search for multi-layered safety within the spookiness of the World.
| İsim/Proje ismi |
| Betül Cenen/Calantha Doğal Güzellik Ürünleri |
| Büşra Mumcuoğlu/Ninni&Kağıt Kesme |
| Eda İlbeyci/Kabuk |
| Melih Gömeç/İsimsiz |
| Ayşegül Ulutaş/Pera’da Gece Yarısı |
| Yiğit Yerlikaya/Kardeş Katili |
| Seyit Koyuncu/Demir adalar |
| Anıl Bayraktar/Geçmişteki Gelecek |
| Anıl Topuzoğlu |
| Bartu İmamtorunu/Gods of Turkic Mythology |
| Emir Mustafa Cihat/Autopoesis |
| Denizcan Aydın/Struc |
| Yeşim Pekesin/Circle of Dead |
| Sıla Hocaoğlu/Kangu |
| Ramazan Çardak/Kodies |
| Recep Hakan Öner/Biolight |
I have social needs…
The human wants to be a part of, to get socialize or to draw away sometimes…
| İsim/Proje ismi |
| Gizem Can/Cabin fever |
| Haydar Pekdüz/Mahrem-i Esrar |
| Burak Bilgen/Traditional motifs |
| Gülce Kuruçay/Art-trip |
| Büşra Üstündağ/Kadın dostu kent |
| Arda Çolakoğlu/Panayır |
| Ayşegül Demir/Çanakkale Art Complex |
| Efe Kurtoğlu/Ludic plant |
| İpek Sena Gümüş/4 Element Merkezi |
| Merve Şimşek/Unity of Opposites |
| Yaren Cirit/StatsGo |
| Ecenur Kızılörenli/Damlacık Bir Toplum Merkezi |
| Fatma Şeker/Damlacıkta Bir Toplum Merkezi |
| Arzu Feruz/Çağdaş İnteraktif Müze İç Mekanları |
| Berkay Özdemir/Çağdaş İnteraktif Müze İç Mekanları – İnteraktif Anti Müze |
| Nilay Altınay/ Çağdaş İnteraktif Müze İç Mekanları – İnteraktif Anti Müze |
| Can Özgür Anacak/Seyir |
| Oğuzhan Boz/Söyleyin Ona |
| Ataberk Kırçuvaloğlu/Lotus Çiçeği |
| Mahinur Bulut/ile olmak |
| Melisa Güler/Suparasa |
| Selenay Çelik/Alternatif Piyesler |
| Hatice Ersöz/Gülizar-Hayattan Bana Kalan |
| Gizem Alpaslan/Core |
| Zeki Kartal/The Coin |
Find me at Place M’as-tu vu!*
Human wants to get recognized by taste…
| İsim/Proje ismi |
| Kuzey Kılınçhan/Seramik iç aydınlatma |
| Özge Demir/Takı Tasarım Ergonomisi |
| Zehra Buse Karakulak/Trençkot |
| Asena Güney/Modern Warrior |
| Selin Ayhan/Changing Earth Crust |
| Seren Dalgıç/Tesla O |
| Baran Pirinçal/Satisfaction |
| Ahmet Can Güvenç /Thetis Motor Yat |
| Ayşenur Çavdar/Adaptasyon Süreci |
| Ece Önal/Yalın çizgiler |
| Seda Özkaynak/Complementary |
“Have you seen me?” Square, Knokke (Belgium).
I’ve done it…
This exhibition hosts only limited number of designers due to limited space and they can be regarded as they have “accomplished themselves”. But the designers who are here in this exhibition or not will continue to work in order to sustain this “self-accomplishment” in their finite lifetime within the cyclic process on earth. Even the criteria seem to be quite relative, the final decision will be given by the earth itself together with all stakeholders of the life on it.