4th Istanbul Design Biennial Announces Concept and Open Call

Photo by: Ilgin Erarslan Yanmaz

4th Istanbul Design Biennial
A School Of Schools
September 22 – November 4, 2018
http://aschoolofschools.iksv.org/en

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will be held from 22 September to 4 November 2018. Curator Jan Boelen announced the concept and open call at a press meeting held on Thursday, 12 October at Salon İKSV.

The press meeting was attended by İKSV Chairman Bülent Eczacıbaşı, Director of the Istanbul Design Biennial Deniz Ova and Curator of the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial Jan Boelen, as well as members of the press, academics, and design and architecture professionals.

A conversation about the concept, A School of Schools, between Deniz Ova and Jan Boelen followed. Covering the challenges faced by design education in today’s changing world, the conversation turned to the role of a design biennial and how it can be used as an experimental space for alternative approaches to design education. Both reflected on how the next edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial can build on the previous editions to create a sustainable legacy for the initiative.

In 2018, the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial will seek to consolidate the legacies of previous editions, and reinvent the biennial format into a productive process-orientated platform for researching, experimenting and learning. A School of Schools will manifest as a multi-platform biennial that uses, tests, and revises a variety of educational strategies to reflect on the role of design, knowledge, and global connectedness in contemporary Istanbul and beyond. The biennial will stretch both the space and time of the traditional design event, manifesting as a flexible year-long programme within which to respond to global acceleration, generating alternative methodologies, outputs and forms of design and education.

For more information: aschoolofschools.iksv.org/en