ME Design - Forms of the Mediterranean

November 15, 2004 (Press Release) -- (PRWEB) November 17, 2004 -- As Genoa has been selected as the European Cultural Capital of 2004, 'ME Design: Forms of the Mediterranean' event is organized by the School of Architecture of the University of Genoa through its research centre, GUD, Genoa University Design, with the collaboration of the network of SDI, Sistema Design Italia. The show takes place in the nineteenth-century Palazzo della Borsa in Genoa with related events in display spaces throughout the city, and it involves visitors with a multimedia anthology to present, with images, sounds, projects and installations, works explicitly related to the concept of Mediterranean culture and in keeping with the themes of place, contemporaneity and design.

'The Mediterranean that unites and divides' is the central theme of the show that displays the multiplicity of aspects of contemporary life bound to ways and objects of daily life. It was intended to exhibit Mediterranean design, design for the Mediterranean, as an expression of the plurality of cultures that has developed on the edge of a sea that also bears common values and expressions. These cultures break down and come together in various ways, infecting each other and hybridizing themselves into different identities. Therefore, the objects in the exhibition are selected among commercially available daily, conventional or modern objects that determine today's Mediterranean identities and design culture.

Istanbul Technical University, Department of Industrial Product Design participates to this event with two exhibitions.

For detailed information and images:

http://www.tasarim.itu.edu.tr/me-design-en.html

Istanbul Technical University
Department of Industrial Product Design