3rd Istanbul Design Biennal – Are We Human? | Call for Videos

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Beatriz Colomina & Mark Wigley are inviting designers, architects, artists, graphic designers, industrial designers, animators, data visualizers, filmmakers, groups, associations, non for profits, laboratories, and other agents from all disciplines to submit a 2-minute video-film in response to the theme of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial:

ARE WE HUMAN?
THE DESIGN OF THE SPECIES
2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200.000 years

Each submitted video-film should address this overall question or focus on one or more of the eight interlinked propositions that were presented in the official announcement of the biennial:

1. Design is always design of the human
2. The human is the designing animal
3. Our species is completely suspended in endless layers of design
4. Design radically expands human capability
5. Design routinely constructs radical inequalities
6. Design is even the design of neglect
7. “Good design” is an anesthetic
8. Design without anesthetic asks urgent questions about our humanity

All of the submitted videos fulfilling the requirements of the Open Call will be made available online on the website of the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial and also in a dedicated section within the exhibition itself, which opens on October 22, 2016. An international and interdisciplinary jury will evaluate all eligible submissions and select three videos to be highlighted in the main exhibition and catalog.

The deadline for submissions is May 20, 2016, 18:00 (EET)

Read the complete call on the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennale website.