The Social City: Patterns of Istanbul & Stockholm workshops
A dialogue & workshop format for reflecting and acting on urban landscapes through art & design
Devoted to explore the dynamics of visual culture and the social fabric of everyday, Sweden based Rebecca Ahlstedt, artist, curator & Designer MFA and Erica Jacobson, Illustrator & Graphic Designer MFA offers a format to artistically and critically work on contemporary issues in cities, with artist colleagues & students in international contexts. Throughout history, the city and its visual culture and skyline have been used for communicating, sharing, arguing and negotiating ideas about us as individuals and as a collective. This also impacts how we design our daily life - public spaces, environments, objects, food, fashion etc. Visual culture both mirrors the ideals and prevailing norms of the times and can be used to rethink practices and ideals within a society, which is the starting point for the artistic platform The Social City.
1. step Patterns of Istanbul was and a pop-up exhibition at the Chapel of the Swedish Consulate General
2. step Patterns of Stockholm workshop was held at Färgfabriken https://fargfabriken.se/en/
Derive workshop with the artist Catti Brandelius
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Rebecca Ahlstedt, Erica Jacobson, Gunes Terkol, Merve Gül Özokcu, Burcak Bingol, Ogul Oztunc, Atıl Aggündüz Lisa Stålspets Catti Brandelius, Pinar Akkurt, Benedetta Crippa and enormous thanks to lovely Suzi Ersahin, and the crew of Swedish Institute Jenny Bergström and Oskar Röhlander for their generous hospitality and support.
