3RD ISTANBUL DESIGN BIENNIAL ‘ARE WE HUMAN?’ | IAPS-CULTURE AND SPACE  “Istanbul as a Palimpsest City and Endless Layers of Design” 
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CLAUSTROSPHERE*

*claustrum (noun) : barrier 
*sphere (noun) : ​-sphere (in nouns) a region that surrounds a planet, especially the earth (e.g. ionosphere, atmosphere)

Population growth in Istanbul begins with the internal migration movement in the 1950s and the population excessively continues to accumulate until today. In the beginning, the story is the "encounter / collision" of the people coming from the countryside set foot in the city.
Those who come have to create their own space to cope with the conditions of the city, so slums begin. The settlements, which is concentrated at distant points from the city centers. increases the number of centers and causes a big separation between the society. People refuse to "encounter" the different.
The outward opening to foreign countries makes the situation of being caught in the middle in this encounter of east-west clearer for Istanbul.Meanwhile, there is a great change in the world. Technology gradually begins to surround our world. A new reality universe is being produced.
Human stumbles to keep up with the rapid movement of the
"modern" city.
Nowadays, individuality becomes more and more prominent, residential areas gradually become blocks and begin to close itself. When we say 'no boundaries', maybe the boundaries rise even more. Now, everywhere is center. Public spaces such as squares, parks and the like are losing their importance and becoming less. In fact, the private, that the new reality produced (social media, etc.), has already begun to be public.
'What is the house, where is it?" that didn't matter much. The place become no place. Istanbul is now a 'rent market". The construction transforms into mass production and becomes uniform. It is no longer even the quality of the house, but a "lifestyle" is masked and offered for sale. 'Avoid the hustle and bustle of the city! Avoid! Hide in the concrete!'
Istanbul starts to turn into a memory-free heap that has lost its layers and cannot evaluate its socio-cultural, historical and geographical potentials. Among these masses, one can no longer know where to look. It closes its eyes. It closes its doors. It does not allow entry. It doesn't know what to do with someone else or the past. Exhibits. takes into "frame". They are only objects.
Human opens her/his eyes to another universe and wraps her/his walls with the images of that universe. S/He is in the illusion that s/he has everything and that s/he will change everything, including herself/himself. S/He is not aware that he is moving away from her/his essence. Maybe s/he is not changing humanity but moving away from humanity. S/he herself/himself is actually an object too. It is s/he who frame.
However, the story is now the story of all of us, disconnected and alone. Now, the city is just a photograph. S/he is photograph.

Team : Rezzan Hilal Güçlü, Öykü Önal, Barış Erdinç İbin




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