Call for Papers: Akbank Sanat, November 1- December 12, 2014
Workshop: SALT Galata, September 15- September 19, 2014
Competition: Akbank Sanat, November 24- December 5, 2014
Symposium: Akbank Sanat, December 5, 2014
Exhibition: Antrepo 7, November 1- December 14, 2014
The constant changes on the world as part of socio-cultural, economic, political, social and technological dynamics; brings the transformation of urban spaces, life styles, spatial practices and our relationship with the city. On this process, discourses on competition, development, branding etc. that are used for the rationalization of the global inequalities are shifting the citizens, using different tactics, who are ought to be the subjects of this rapid transformation.
Thus the emergence of manifestations as a scream, a call for demands and requests when the subject position of the citizen obscures, becomes inevitable.
Istanbul, as a palimpsest city in the world cities which are connected and in interaction with each other by a complex network system, is getting transferred to the future with its new layers articulated on the old ones. Urban spaces; which we are assumed to have the power of reproduction with interpretations/forms/projections that differ everyday; are accumulating the traces of the past, today and the projected future. Istanbul which is one of the cities that these traces subsist together, witnesses the production and transfer of manifestations from past to the future within its multi-layered structure.
On recent days that every “place” becomes similar; Istanbul is creating multiple intersections between today and the future while producing new manifestations and dialogues via some concepts like consumption, migration, identity, memory, segregation, culture, politics, speed etc.
On this context, following the main theme of the Biennial “While imagining a new future on the one side and building itself on the past, at the same time re-interpreting it and pioneering changes and hereby creating manifestations that changes both”; IAPS-CSBE Network is calling for all young designers and students to produce manifestations, establish a dialogue and think on how can the layers of changing Istanbul be transferred to the future in the framework of “As a ‘Palimpsest’ City, ‘The Future Is Not What It Used To Be in Istanbul” theme.