Project: Design for Cultural Heritage. June 08 Yahsibey Workshops
Description: Ten design and architecture graduates spent two weeks living, cooking, washing, sleeping and working together. The project evolved into the question, ‘what can design offer to the experience of visiting sites of cultural heritage?' Our case study was the Hellenistic site of Pergamon.
Description: Ten design and architecture graduates spent two weeks living, cooking, washing, sleeping and working together. The project evolved into the question, ‘what can design offer to the experience of visiting sites of cultural heritage?' Our case study was the Hellenistic site of Pergamon.
Idea sharing, mapping, group crits, prototyping, probing, immersing. The following are a selection of the 30+ prototypes that we developed, tested and presented. These come under the theme, comfortable information sharing.
Knowledge Tree. Collaboration w/ Esin Isik
Roman Tunica. Collaboration w/ Jihyun Ryou
Personal Tour Parasol. Collaboration w/ Bobo Chan
Undiscovered Pergamon map. Collaboration w/ Sibel Bas and Michele Cheung
At Yahsibey I...accosted too many tourists x developed stealth observation skills x learnt about cultural probing x dug for stories x became a brainstorming queen x touched new limits of idea development x rapid prototyped with sticks and chewing gum x discovered you can take the bitterness out of courgettes x and have since agreed to lead a 2011 workshop with Jihyun Ryou.
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