DESIGNERS
Jenny Nordberg & Buşra Tunç
Jenny Nordberg’s practice is driven by a search for alternatives and counter-strategies to irresponsible mass production. Her work is characterised by brutalism and minimalism cleverly combined, often leaning on chance as an important element.
Buşra Tunç is an architect/artist whose work focuses on perception and experience in the fields of architecture, art and design, working with industrial and everyday materials, optical units and analog instruments.
The common points of the designers are meeting on searching for new material and production methods and experimental design processes. Both of the designers are integrating industrial design processes in their design approaches.
ARTISANS
Metal artisans Kadir and and Ulaş’s workshops are located in Perşembe Pazarı. Perşembe Pazarı is one the most important areas for the collective production in Istanbul. As a port area, Perşembe Pazarı has been a witness to the history of Istanbul. Today, this area is merging cultural legacy with production tradition.
PROCESS & PRODUCTS
The Metal Workshop Team designed a plant pot family with different shapes and colours, proposing a structural system where plants can reside and become a living architectural element. Taking reference from biophilic design, the plant pot family builds on the idea of accommodating plant life-forms in contemporary interiors. A joint system was developed especially for the pieces’ surface connections. The process of painting the surfaces was an experimental and performative one; it was ideated and accomplished uniquely for every piece in the dyehouse using the powder-coating technique.
