ARE WE HUMAN? : The Design of the Species: 2 seconds, 2 days, 2 years, 200 years, 200,000 years 

The biennial will present more than 70 projects from 5 continents by designers, architects, artists, theorists, choreographers, filmmakers, historians, archaeologists, scientists, labs, centres, institutes and NGOs in 5 main venues; Galata Greek Primary School, Studio-X Istanbul and Depo in Karaköy, Alt Art Space in Bomonti, and Istanbul Archaeological Museums in Sultanahmet. In addition to the projects of this core multidisciplinary group, the work of a dense array of international writers, video makers and designer researchers will be presented in the same venues and online to stimulate a new kind of conversation about design

.The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial will explore the intimate relationship between “design” and “human” over a time period that spans from the last 2 seconds to the last 200,000 years. Organised by İKSV and co-sponsored by ENKA Foundation, VitrA and Petkim, the 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial is held free of charge (except the Istanbul Archaeological Museums will require a museum ticket). For more information: http://arewehuman.iksv.org/ 

François Dallegret’s Art Fiction – Art in America, March-April 1966

French architect François Dallegret imagines that soon most human activity will occur not on earth but in space. He sees the artist of this future time as a man who is, like his predecessors over the centuries, endowed with some special innate talent. This artist of the future differs from his predecessors, however, in that he creates no material objects, such as paintings or sculptures, but rather makes environments in space which induce a variety of specific sensory reactions in the people who enter them. Their reactions can be as general as a simple feeling of excitement, as physical as a feeling they are lighter, as unbalancing as the feeling they are light years away from their real location, as nostalgically concrete as the feeling that they are surrounded by Louis XV furniture. The medium which the artist of the future uses to create his environment is electric emanations, which he learns how to organize and send from both human teachers and teaching machines. These emanations can be received by anyone who tunes in and, Dallegret says, "in this future everyone will understand the artist's intention. His intention will be to create all sorts of natural and supernatural feelings we don't know about yet. It will kill Descartes, this thing. And Braque

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