{"id":169370,"date":"2020-05-28T16:13:16","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gelenekselsanatlar.org\/unesco\/we-attended-the-designmonat-design-festival-in-austria-05-29-2019\/"},"modified":"2020-05-28T16:13:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T13:13:16","slug":"we-attended-the-designmonat-design-festival-in-austria-05-29-2019","status":"publish","type":"unesco","link":"https:\/\/gelenekselsanatlar.org\/en\/unesco\/we-attended-the-designmonat-design-festival-in-austria-05-29-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"We Attended the Designmonat Design Festival in Austria. | 05\/29\/2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We Attended the Designmonat Design Festival in Austria. | 05\/29\/2019TRADITIONAL ARTS ASSOCIATION<\/strong><\/p>\n

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DESIGNMONAT – GRAZ EVENT REPORT<\/strong><\/p>\n

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May 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Dr. Asl\u0131han Erkmen – Dr. \u015eehnaz Bi\u00e7er<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Traditional Arts Association Attended Designmonat Design Festival in Austria\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Istanbul Design Bureau’s invitation to the 15 to 19 May 2019 Date held between the city of Graz in Austria “Designmonat” design who participated in the festival scope of activities Traditional Arts Association board member of Design Talks panels in traditional arts and gave a speech about the current situation in Turkey .<\/p>\n

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\u00a0Located in the UNESCO Design Cities Network since 2009, Graz organizes the Designmonat event every year and brings design together with the public. Istanbul was selected UNESCO Design City in 2017 and continues its communication activities to strengthen its relations with other design cities. In this context, the cooperation between Istanbul and Graz was achieved with an active participation in Designmonat. Industrial products of design, architecture, fashion, traditional arts, plastic arts, etc. Istanbul, which has a high capacity in its fields, also has a wide design knowledge with its multicultural structure from the past to the present. In Designmonat, panels, workshops, speeches were made for three days on the artificial island \u201cMurinsel\u201d on the Mur River passing through Graz, and current issues related to design and Istanbul were conveyed to Grazians.<\/p>\n

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16 May 2019 – Panels<\/strong><\/p>\n

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In Murinsel, with the organization of Designmonat, the panels attended by representatives of creative industries and non-governmental organizations, product designers, architects, artists and university students started with a session titled \u201cAll Aspects of Design in Istanbul\u201d. Panel Turkey Industrial Designers Association President Serta\u00e7 Ersay\u0131n designers found in the transfer of information on relationships with industry. Deniz Ova, Director of the Istanbul Design Biennial, explained the biennial history and talked about the components of the design in Istanbul. Mehmet Kalyoncu, a member of the Board of Turkish Design Foundation, conveyed the construction and moving processes of the New Istanbul Airport through the eyes of a designer. General Secretary of Traditional Arts Association. As the last speaker of the Asl\u0131han Erkmen panel via traditional Ottoman examples of the evolution of art in Turkey was described briefly. Then the current situation of the association’s “Masters of Turkey” through the project, presented with numerical data. At the end of the speech, he showed the reflections of a deep-rooted artistic past today visually through the works of artists working both in traditional style and in the field of contemporary art.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0In the second session, “SO?”, Which was founded by Sevince Bayrak G\u00f6kta\u015f and Oral G\u00f6kta\u015f, a couple of architects and designers. Design-oriented projects carried out by the company in Istanbul, London and Rome were introduced by them.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0“Learning, Teaching, Sharing Istanbul” day of the last session of the Industrial Designers Can Yalman, designed for companies that operate in Turkey, where brands, products, packaging and so on. presented samples. Fashion designer Arzu Kaprol introduced not only the fashion show but also the “Fashion Show”, which she designed as an original design event. (The last show that he used VR -Virtual Reality- technique could also be watched in the \u201cIstanbul Design Collection\u201d exhibition, which will remain open during Designmonat in Graz.) The last speaker of the session and the day, Traditional Arts Association Board Member \u015eehnaz Bi\u00e7er talked about the past and future of traditional arts with the eyes of an artist. ; He said that in order to be a \u201creal\u201d designer, it is necessary to know the tradition and the masters very well. In his speech, Bi\u00e7er emphasized that the main concern of the artist was to find his own unique visual language and style rather than technique.<\/p>\n

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18 May 2019 – Workshops<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Both workshops and exhibitions were organized to introduce Istanbul as a design city within the scope of Designmonat. In the workshops in Murinsel, Serap Ekizler S\u00f6nmez directed \u201cGeometric Patterns\u201d, Fatma \u00c7i\u011fdem Ertem \u201cEbru\u201d, Mehtap Arda \u201cJewelry Design\u201d, Rukiye \u00c7al\u0131\u015fkan \u201cWood Burning\u201d workshops and many people of all ages participated in handicraft works.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0In addition, an exhibition called \u201cIstanbul Design Collection\u201d and \u201cWorld Wide Things\u201d exhibition where works from UNESCO Design Cities Network member Istanbul, Puebla, Mexico City, Detroit, Saint-Etienne and Graz were exhibited during the festival in Graz.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0During the event, we met with the mentioned speakers, the Advisory Board, the architects of the Graz event of Istanbul, and the NGO managers in Graz, on various occasions and exchanged views on the events that can be planned together in the future.<\/p>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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