Dutch Designers at Istanbul Design Biennale

The participating designers and projects for the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial (1 November - 14 December 2014) are announced and five Dutch projects have being selected.

Organised by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) and curated by Zoë Ryan and associate curator Meredith Carruthers, the biennial titled 'The Future Is Not What It Used To Be' hosts 53 projects that centre around the collective question: 'What is the future now?'

By rethinking the manifesto as a platform to frame pertinent questions, the projects question the role of design, its relationship to society, and its ability to be an active agent for change. 

The projects imagine new possibilities that can transform the present and invite new potential futures. Arranged in five departments— Personal, Norms and Standards, Resource, Civic Relations, and Broadcast — the projects question the manifesto as a platform for situating ideas and pointing to new directions.

The Dutch projects are:

Norms and Standards Department:

• Dyslexie Typeface, Christian Boer
• smart design (. . .) smart life, Jacob de Baan, Giorgio Caione and Rianne Koens

Resources Department:

• Open Manifesto, FormaFantasma: Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi
• Repair Society, Gabriele Oropallo, Joanna van der Zanden, and Cynthia Hathaway

Civic Relations Department:

• Retreat, dpr-barcelona: Ethel Baraona, Studio-X; GSAPP: Marina Otero and FAST, The New Institute, Rotterdam: Malkit Shoshan

The exhibition at the Galata Greek Primary School, the hub of the 2nd Istanbul Design Biennial, will spread over all five floors of the school, an area of approximately 2,300 square metres.

Istanbul Design Biennale is generously supported among others DutchCulture.