formandchaos

As a part of Tate Modern’s The Tanks: Art in Action series Five Years hosts a discussion around their open submission project (Im)possible School Book: As Found. Together with Boo Wallin we designed an (in)formative poster/leaflet for the participant Amateurist Network.

The poster can be read and downloaded here.

By looking at almost any known attemps on building utopias we could state that one of the most common reasons for failure is the individual need to build structures and hierarchies.

If the desire for conceiving these structures is so deeply inbuilt in our human genes that this process seems simply avoidable, would it still be possible for us to function better within a created structure if we were more informed about our choices and actions?

The social identity application form is an attempt to test people’s capacity to act independently (agency) and measure recurrent arrangements that influence or limit the choices and opportunities available to them (structure).

You can download a pdf version of the application form from here.

Browsing through a bunch of tourist photos after having just spent nearly two weeks in Turkey, these images stood out as something different. They are taken in the two sites of cultural institute SALT in Istanbul, where our friend Ayşe is currently interning.

I was highly impressed and very inspired by the whole institution and all its research led activities. I have been aware of SALT prior arriving to Istanbul after having seen its brilliant identity system by Project Projects popping up all over the wonderful world of internet. 

I have been referencing this typographic system in a few of my college projects, and apparently talking about it to an extent that my girlfriend now thinks that I am being obsessed by this identity, so it was now very nice to see how it works in real life.