When crafts, education and design perform outside their common practice, what kinds of new experiences and relations could emerge? Could new expansions be obtained from the interaction of those three areas? Do crafts have a potential for the post-industrial era instead of being seen as a pre-industrial form of production? Such questions were the starting point of the ZET Conference, the final event of the Masterpiece Beyoglu Project*. The conference aims to bring craftsmen, apprentices, design students, tutors and international speakers on the subject of Crafts, Education and Design. The first day was allocated for the official opening and a film screening. The second day’s program began with presentations of Karin-Beate Phillips (British European Design Group / Save Our Skills), Sabine Voggenreiter (PASSAGEN-Design Quartier Ehrenfeld), Nicoline Dorsman (Design Academy Eindhoven FORUM Department), Zissis Kotionis (University of Thessaly, Post Industrial Design Master Program), Asli Kiyak Ingin (Made in Sishane, Istanbul Bilgi University), about different experiences and practices on Crafts, Education and Design. Such examples were aimed to contribute to the novel perspective the project aims to achieve. The second day of the conference continued with the ZET Forum. At the first part of the forum different actors of the projects shared their experiences and evaluated the process. At the second part participants and speakers joined the discussion on evaluating the project steps and topics mentioned at the conference.

Text taken from the Ustaişi Beyoğlu - Crafts Once Again Project Book.