Masters of Material is a vision we came across in istanbul. We see craftsmen not as manufacturers of objects, but as specialists with the knowledge and expertise to shape and form material. It is well known that the istanbul thinking is very traditional and it they need a puss to break to ice to move forward into the future. We gave them some crazy future scenarios to inspire them to go crazy.
This scenario way of thinking is very essential in creative solutions the community of Istanbul can use to think in a less practical way of coming up with solutions. It's the trigger towards a speculative future client which is not suggested before for the craftsmen.
- Derya Akdemir, Ecem Aksoy, Emanuel Gollob, Esra Tokat, Jasper Eikmeier, Liana Kuyumcuyan, Nur Horsanali, Tao Chan -
Istanbul design bienalle (2014)
