Istanbul Design Biennial announces new dates and revised programme in live VDF talk
Istanbul Design Biennial curator Mariana Pestana and director Deniz Ova have set out their revised plans for this year's event in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic a live interview as part of Virtual Design Festival.
Originally scheduled to start in September, the biennial will now run from 15 October to 15 November and will feature a programme designed for local audiences to experience safely.
Speaking live to Dezeen's founder and editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs, Pestana and Ova explained the theme of its fifth edition, Empathy Revisited: Designs for more than one.
This focuses on how design can embed care and empathy into the world and will be explored through a programme of digital projects, physical exhibitions and participatory events. The curator of the fifth edition of the Istanbul Design Biennial, architect Mariana Pestana, will take part in a live Screentime conversation about the event
"Working collaboratively with designers, artists, architects, activists and thinkers, the biennial explores designs for multiple bodies, dimensions, and perspectives," the organisers explained.
"The projects that the biennial presents encourage us to rethink practices of care and civility at this critical moment in time, and to collectively build new systems and structures for reconnecting."
The biennial will be centred around three groups of content starting with a weekly virtual cooking programme called Critical Cooking Show. This will be hosted by different pr...
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