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DESIGN WEEK 2019
Contributing to the establishment of a design culture in Turkey and the promotion of Turkish designers throughout the world, Design Week Turkey 2019 kicked off.
Organized by Turkish Exporters’ Assembly (TIM) at Haliç Congress Center under the coordination of the Ministry of Trade, the event brought together young designers and designer candidates.
Speaking at the opening of the event, Chairman of TİM, İsmail Gülle said: “By putting the added value that design creates in production and life into focus, we organized the fourth of Design Week, where we brought together national and international representatives of the industry and designers.”
Pointing out the transformation age that comes with global trends in every field of life from social life to production and export, Gülle stated that all preferences in we make are based on design.
After the Chairman İsmail Gülle, Sebastian Bergne delivered a keynote speech.
Turkey's most comprehensive design event Design Week Turkey, brought together more than 120,000 visitors both domestically and abroad with all the creative industries, since it’s held.
Design Week Turkey considers creating the awareness that design identity and economic success of our country can be achieved through the integration of design and industry; also brings together industry representatives and designers and provides a meeting ground for producing value-added products.
DWT’19 program, which focuses on strengthening creative economies, encouraging entrepreneurship, collaborative multidisciplinary projects and rigorous design research between industries, is formed through a comprehensive planning network by both national and international stakeholders.
DWT’19 was held at the Haliç Congress Center on November 14-17 this year with panels and conferences, exhibitions, workshops and award ceremonies in a number of fields including industrial design, fashion, visual communication design, architecture. The event spanned the city and the country, and aroused on a variety of routes and areas, and new ways of exploring the country through design were presented to design enthusiasts.
The ability to design written in our genetic codes for thousands of years has emerged with successful contemporary projects integrated with innovation and technology in all design disciplines and approaches. Within the scope of the event, brands had the chance to develop joint projects with designers, and as well as they had the opportunity to cooperate with universities and institutions.
14-17 November, Haliç Congress Center