The Galata Greek Primary School, Antrepo 7, and its surroundings, temporarily occupied through the Istanbul Design Biennial, are also adjacent to a craft district situated in the background. This craft network, which has permeated the city, operates like a single large organism offering multiple options and flexible production possibilities. The relationships in the Craft District are woven not only through economic ties but also through social and cultural networks. While the spaces of large industry are highly visible and distinct, such small craft districts are, with their integrated existence within the current building stock, almost in a state of urban camouflage. The way to understand this system is through establishing relationships and remaining in search. Like tracking down a chandelier part.

Urban craft neighborhoods and the semi-finished goods shops that feed them were for a long time pushed into the background, since they were considered to correspond to an outdated technology in the age of industry and mass production; yet today, when the Third Industrial Revolution is being discussed, the consumer society has begun to be criticized, and different possibilities are being sought, they still continue to contain important potentials for the future.

Current urban transformation policies that advocate removing urban production from the center have destroyed existing craft networks and have also led to the loss of a future possibility without it ever being tested or discussed. During the biennial and afterwards, Informal Academy opened up for research and discussion, through shared participation platforms and different media, the possibilities of a future that perhaps may not exist tomorrow.

Informal academy programı üç ana başlık adı altında gerçekleştirilmiştir. 

Program:

Yakın ve Uzak: Zanaat Kültürleri için Geçici Müze

Konuşma & Tartışma - 07/11/2014, 18.00 - Galata Özel Rum İlköğretim Okulu - Nicoline Dorsman | Design Academy Eindhoven & Onur Karaoğlu | Masumiyet Müzesi  & Aslı Kıyak İngin | Made in Şişhane

Yürüyüş & Atölye - 08/11/2014, 11.00 - Galata Meydanı - Nicoline Dorsman & Aslı Kıyak İngin

Atölye - 08/12/2014-12/12/2014 - Design Academy Eindhoven & İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü & Made in Şişhane

Yürüyüş & Sunum - 13/12/2014, 11.00 - Galata Özel Rum İlköğretim Okulu - Nicoline Dorsman & Aslı Kıyak İngin

Zanaat &Emek & Eğitim

Konuşma & Tartışma - "Bir Sonraki Günün Emeği” - 13/11/2014, 18.00 - Artin Usta'nın Atölyesi - Artin Aharon | Zanaatkar-Galata, Pelin Tan | MAÜ Mimarlık Fakültesi, Aslı Kıyak İngin | Made in Şişhane

Konuşma & Tartışma - "Zanaatkar: Bilgi ve Deneyimden Paylaşıma" - 27/11/2014, 16.00 - Antrepo 7 - İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi Endüstri Ürünleri Tasarımı Bölümü ID 202 Öğretim Görevlileri, Öğrencileri ve Zanaat Atölyeleri

Konuşma & Tartışma - 04/12/2014, 18.00 - Turgay Usta'nın Atölyesi - "Önlüğü Çekip Çalışma Sevdası" - Turgay Ebcim | Zanaatkar-Şişhane, Sevgi Ortaç | Sanatçı, Aslı Kıyak İngin | Made in Şişhane

Turistler için Tasarım Kılavuzu

Atölye - 13/11/2014 - 18/11/2014 - Sabine Voggenreiter | Büro Sabine Voggenreiter, Pierre Kracht | Fremdform, Aslı Kıyak İngin | Made in Şişhane

22/11/2014, 10.00

Yürüyüş & Sunum - Galata Meydanı