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Atelier Luma X 4th Istanbul Design Biennial - Blooming Algae

In collaboration with İstanbul Bilgi University 2018, İstanbul

Tutors: Henriette Waal, Mevce Çıracı

Assistant: Sarp Susüzer

Photo Credit: IKSV

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Blooming Algae workshop was held as a collaboration between Atelier Luma head of research Henriette Waal, Giulio Vinaccia from Creative Mediterranean Cairo and designer Mevce Çıracı, held at İstanbul Bilgi University, as a part of 4th İstanbul Design Biennial.

Atelier Luma is a think tank, a production workshop and a learning network of the Luma Foundation based in Arles. Its Algae Lab was founded in 2017, to explore existing algae realities, the potential of growing micro- and macro-algae locally, and how it can be combined with biopolymers that can replace fossil oil-based plastics.

Algae biopolymers developed by atelier LUMA were used to 3D-print prototypes of water wessels were designed by participants, drawing on particular cultural archives on traditional glass vessels. 

Workshop participants: Sarp Susuzer, Tufan İşcan, Rengin Jiyan Kolçak, Beste Tekdoğan, Tahsin İnanıcı, Ayşe Kiper, Colleen O’Neil, Billy Ernst, Deena Mohamed El Mahdy, Ahmed Khaled Abdelazim, Yara Yassin, Rania Rafie, Lina Alorabi, Mai Ashmawy, Esmaa Fathy, Sama Omar, Yasmine Elwani, Yousra Yassine

Additional contributors: Studio Klarenbeek & Dros, Victor Picon, Sarp Susuzer, Anastasia Eggers, Berat Haznedaroglu (Istanbul Microalgae Biotechnologies Research and Development Center), Daniel Bell, 3Dörtgen, Paşabahçe Glass Collection Istanbul.