İYTE Exhibition of the Workshop of City in Text

Exhibition of the Workshop of City in Text (realized in April) can be seen at the entrance hall of A-Building of İYTE Faculty of Architecture, between the dates of 27th December 2013 – 7th January 2014. We would like to thank all of our students and colleagues who participated to the organization.

You can find some images and photos (in Turkish) from the exhibition below:

"Viewing Text & Reading Image" has finished!

The 2nd workshop titled "Viewing Text & Reading Image" has been completed with an exhibition in the Faculty of Fine Arts and Design of the University of Economics. The workshop constituted a part of FFD 102 Art and Design Studio II. The participants worked on a city from Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino (Octavia, Ersilia, Baucis, Argia, and Olinda), and visualized the text in 2D and/or 3D. Besides, they wrote a story for a missing city in the book, and also designed the visual field of that city with its textual field. Thanks all of the participants for their great efforts, and successful works!

You can find the works in the exhibition below:

OCTAVIA with DELUGE & HELIOS as the 56th-57th cities

(Elif Ece Yönetken, Gizem Selin Arkun)

ERSILIA with EMILIOPOTIS & LAVAGNA as the 56th-57th cities

(Cansu Aybüke Taşkın, Deniz Kamacı)

BAUCIS with SORELLA & NATE as the 56th-57th cities

(Melike Arıtkan, Ezgi Eker)

ARGIA with ELIRAN, ATHILDA & KAILANI as the 56th-57th-58th cities

(Elif Çoban, Damla İleri, Berk Babayiğit)

OLINDA with MIDANES as the 56th city
(Damla Günhan, Emine Çilek)

The 2nd workshop, "Viewing Text & Reading Image," begins...

DESCRIPTION:

The 2nd workshop is going to be held at Izmir University of Economics, as a part of FFD 102 Art and Design Studio II, on 15th April Monday and 18th April Thursday, with the same conception. 11 students are working on the stories selected from Invisible Cities: Octavia (p.75), Ersilia (p.76), Bauci (p.77), Argia (p.126) and Olinda (pp.129-30). The workshop combines the phases of City in Text and Text in Eye, and covers two steps:

1.  The participants work on a short-story describing an invisible city from the book, analyze and abstract it, and translate its “textual field/volume” into the “visual one.” (Each student will work as a part of two/three-person team.)
 -      They will produce a “city-guide” in the format of either an information/presentation board or a booklet.

-      They will synchronically construct a “model” representing the related city.

-      They are free to decide on the production technique(s) as well as the final sizes of all visual products.

2.  “There is a missing story in Invisible Cities.” The participants explore/design this missing-city by writing a short-story of their own. (They will work individually, with max. of 200 words.)

MATERIAL LIST:

For the information/presentation board or booklet,

·        Corrugated cardboard (50*70)

·        Cartridge papers (leftover ones in different colors)

·        Craft paper (50*70)

·        Newspaper and magazine sheets

·        Sketch papers

·        Pencils, markers, charcoals, paints (in different colors)

·        Technical-drawing equipments (squares, compass, French curve, templates etc.)

·        Puncher and stapler

·        A laptop connected to the internet

For the model,

·        Styrofoam board (they will determine the size)

·        Model-making equipments (glue, scissors, model-knife, hammer etc.)

·        Recycled and leftover materials, and the materials that they do not have to pay for:

for instance,

-         plastic bottles, paper cups, wrapping papers, newspaper and magazine sheets, craft paper, paper bags and boxes, aluminum foil, cans…

-         acetate sheets, wires, wire-mesh, fishing line, wool strings, fabrics in different colors, pins, sewing needles, nails, stretch film, pipettes, chopsticks/wooden sticks, modeling clay, beads, beans…

-         pebble stones, sand, leaves, branches, pine cones…

For the story,

·        Memories, experiences, dreams J

·        A4 sheet (the students are responsible for designing the visual field and choosing the material[s] of the sheet.)

Quick links to the book of Invisible Cities in .pdf:

In English: http://s3.dosya.tc/server2/thxeVw/Calvino_Invisible-Cities.pdf.html 

In Turkish (pp. 56-204): http://s3.dosya.tc/server2/HMV3Jn/Calvino_Italo_Gorunmez_Kentler.pdf.html 

Works from the first day, and the city texts:

City in Text has visualized!

The workshop of City in Text was held on 9 April 2013 Tuesday, at IYTE, with a nice and joyous participation. The workshop covered the visualization of the cities named Octavia (p. 75), Ersilia (p. 76), and Argia (p. 126), which were selected from the book of Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. It was realized in 3 sections composed of 14 participants grouped in a team of 4/5-persons. The workshop began with a brief presentation about Calvino and Invisible Cities, and ended with the abstraction of the textual cities, and translation of them into the visual context by 3 and 2 dimensional media.

We thank dear all student-participants, IYTE Design Community, and dear colleagues who rooted for us during the process. 

Yelda Mert & İpek Ek

(You can find the visual representations of these textual cities in the other pages of this blog...)