DESIGN WEEK TÜRKİYE

Within the scope of Turkey's most comprehensive design event, Design Week Turkey, we took part in the design, production, and installation of three main exhibitions, in addition to producing digital content for various platforms.

Highlighted were our contributions to the exhibitions "We Design For The Planet," where leading artists' works with a theme of recycling were displayed; "Lost Partition," where Can Atilla's piece titled "Lost Partition" was presented as an experience; and the exhibition of products designed within the scope of the Natural Stone Product Design Workshop, titled "Göbeklitepe."

Furthermore, we took charge of producing various digital content used on the main stage throughout social media, internet, and the event.

We would like to extend our thanks to everyone and every institution that contributed to our participation in this event, where we had the opportunity to collaborate with highly esteemed artists

WE DESIGN FOR THE PLANET

Nothing comes to being suddenly in a momentary fashion; everything bides its time, and then pushes itself forward by putting layer over layer, developing...

Ice doesn’t melt suddenly, climate doesn’t change suddenly. That which rises step by step loses its power step by step. A melting glacier, rising level of water; all comes stratum by stratum from the past to this moment; all waits layer over layer; all becomes aware, stratified, that it has been left for nothingness.

Increasing carbon footprint as well as colossal industrial waste opens wounds in the flesh of everything. Each scar sits on top of the previous one. Layers increase one after the other and prepare the future: for better or worse... With its understanding of and approach to design, this exhibition represents the layers that accumulate over time. It emphasizes the need to bring sustainability to life step by step in a stratified manner just as the way climate crisis and global warming came into being: layer by layer over time. Because we can create a positive layer not by daily measures or eventual precautions, but only by including sustainability in our life step by step on every layer, and that layer, in turn, would trigger another layer.

THE LOST PARTITION

Can Atilla’s ‘Lost Partition’, specifically composed for Design Week Turkey, is an interactive installation bringing design, sound and sculpture together.

The work consists of timeless intersections of genres, from the Gregorian chorus of Middle Ages as the archetype of classical music to the minimal form of classical music of the 21st century and improvisations in which modern jazz timbers are conveyed through wind instruments.

It consists of ten minimal neoclassic partitions and uniquely trained musical scores for string sextet, flugelhorn, soprano saxophone, and Gregorian soloist and chorus in order to create the experience of the sound design.

GOBEKLİTEPE

Who were these artists?

Where did they find their inspiration?

How did they master their craft?

How did hunter-gatherer groups come together?

With no tools, how did they transport these 6-ton stones for kilometers and shape them with such impeccable craftsmanship?

The animals vary, but why is there no sign of any human faces?

Why, after a thousand years, were they covered with earth?

What were they trying to conceal?