As the month-long 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial draws near, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV) have revealed a full list of projects and participants. Curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, the biennial?which is titled Are We Human" The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years?will revolve around one pressing provocation: that design itself needs to be redesigned.

Human Helmet, Daft Punk (2005). . Image Courtesy of Istanbul Design Biennial

As the month-long 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial draws near, the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (?KSV) have revealed a full list of projects and participants. Curated by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley, the biennial?which is titled Are We Human" The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years?will revolve around one pressing provocation: that design itself needs to be redesigned.Presenting more than 70 projects from five continents by designers, architects, artists, theorists, choreographers, filmmakers, historians, archaeologists, scientists, laboratories, institutes and NGOs, the exhibitions will be spatialized by Andrés Jaque and the Office for Political Innovation and spread across five main venues ? the Galata Greek Primary School, Studio-X Istanbul and Depo in Karaköy, Alt Art Space in Bomonti, and the Istanbul Archaeological Museums in Sultanahmet. The work of a dense array of interna...