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Lived space is not uniform, neutral and valueless space. One and thesame
event-a kiss or a murder, for instance, - is an entirely different story
depending on whether it takes place in a bedroom, bathroom, library,
elevator or gazebo.
"I believe that people are made
not only of the places where they were brought up, but of those that
they love, I believe that the environment (le décor) lives in us,
directs us [...] By understanding people you understand places better,
by understanding places you understand people better." ——Agnès Varda
If we consider the edification of
Reason (Vermunf) in Kant's system, it can be asserted that; painting,
plastic arts,and architecture are subject to the form of space (the rule
of "coexistence"), and music, literature to the form of time (the rule
of"successivity"). It seems that cinema, since it consists of successive
moments, can be classified under the later form.
About the editors
Belkıs Uluoğlu is an Associate
Professor of Architecture at I.T.U., Istanbul. Her areas of interest
are: Design theory, cognitive processes in design, design education, and
architectural theory. She has published articles on epistemological and
ontological basis of architecture and on design knowledge. She is
presently conducting a research on Architectural Discourse in Turkey: a
reading of architectural treatises of the Ottoman and early Republican
period.
Ayhan Enşici is a Ph.D. candidate in
the Industrial Product Design program of I.T.U., Istanbul. His areas of
interest are, design theory and methodology, design teams, product
design in cinema, and visual presentation. He has produced product
design works and published articles on the design process. He is the
founder and editor of the web design publication Designophy.
Ali Vatansever is an industrial
product designer, continuing his MA degree in Film and Television at
Istanbul Bilgi University and MFA degree in Film Production at Rochester
Institute of Technology as a Fulbright fellow. He directed short films
and documentaries which are widely shown in festivals. His articles
about design and cinema are published in national magazines and online
journals. He is presently working on a medium-length science fiction
film. His areas of interest are design and cinema; aesthetics in film
and photography.
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Synopsis
Why has cinema become so closely
acquainted with the design disciplines, and vice versa? What valuable or
significant experience can come out from this brotherhood, both in terms
of substantial and in terms of representative means? What seems to be
more promising in terms of theory making both in design and in cinema is
the substantial dimension of their relationship, since it points to an
essential change in our conception of existence and space: The
timelessness of optic space replaced by the time-bounded experientiality
of haptic space. This also brings about different theoretical elements
for analysis by leaving the subject and the object aside and looking
into what their relations have produced, the outcome being patterns of
experience which exist somewhere between the lived and the made, i.e.
being abstract and concrete at the same time. And, finally, this is
where cinema becomes a poetic medium and an important tool for
representing the so-called patterns.
Design and Cinema: Form Follows Film
is interested in seeing those patterns in terms of formal categories,
thought to be representation of certain experiences. The book is
organized in two parts, Discourse on Form and Film and Works on Form and
Film. The first part of the book – discourse – is intended to give a
picture of current thought on the formal categories, introduced here as,
existential, narrative, structural, constructive, temporal, digital,
social, and fragmental. The second part of the book presents works,
conducted either in the form of workshops or films, as expressive media
of the formal categories discussed in the first part.
The volume presents works of Juhani
Pallasmaa, Gül Kale, Ayşe N.Erek, Ayşe E.C. Orlandi, Andong Lu, François
Penz, Marshall Deutelbaum, Ferenc Boné, Dilek Altuntaş, Halit Refiğ,
Arthur Lizie, Tuğyan A.Dural, Fatoş Adiloğlu, Seçkin Kutucu, Lutz
Robbers, Türker Armaner, Feride Çiçekoğlu, Alex McDowell, Gül K.Erk,
Joaquim Moreno, Aydın H. Polatkan, Helmut Weihsmann, Ayşe Şentürer,
Julie Talen, Olga Vásques-Ruano, Otto von Busch, Henric Benesch, Belkıs
Uluoğlu and Işıl B.Serim.
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