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Bodrum Design Village

Design Foundation Istanbul will act with the mission to praise; design awareness, as the main denominator of economic strategies, prioritizing the ‘design mind’, over the ‘decision mind’. Faruk Malhan Architect President of Design Foundation

Design Foundation Istanbul is dedicated to all the creative minds of the world; in the quest for humanity, in search of cultural memories, in reference to the Ancient World, where stages of civilization, evolution of economies, origins of cultures, and social heritage have spread over the Mediterranean Peninsula to the world, to the present.

Main Principles of Design Foundation Istanbul

Design Foundation Istanbul is an international non-profit membership organization founded in 2013, Istanbul / Turkey. It collaborates with designers, artists, educators, researchers, leading actors of technology, science, culture and creative economies.

Creativity requires originality, identity, memory, vision and universality. Thus, Design Foundation Istanbul aims to unite design, arts, crafts, technology, science, culture, creative economies and the changing societies for the welfare of humanity.

Design Foundation Istanbul organizes conferences, seminars, workshops and exhibitions, declares an integrated approach on the creative disciplines such as design, arts, crafts, architecture, regional and urban planning.

DFI, is a civil organization, ‘presenting civil as more political’, and ‘welcoming political as more civil’

Positioned on a hillside among olive trees with a view of the Aegean Sea, Bodrum Design Village invites talents of design, architecture, arts and crafts for ‘co-creation’. In the times where design culture owns a process-oriented nature rather than a result-oriented one, workshops gain importance as places of reflection, experimentation, production and exchange.

Collaboration, sharing ideas and creating together need a sense of tranquility, serenity and an environment of poetic simplicity. This is exactly the reason for locating the premises in the midst of peaceful surroundings, far from the irritations of a crowded city.

Situated in Yalıkavak, Bodrum Design Village is built on a land of 7 acres, housing six workshops, one restaurant, one guest house and one showroom. The workshops include facilities for modeling, glass fusion, ceramics, tapestry, leather and felt design. Local and international workshops will be organized throughout the year, with designers and architects around the world as workshop leaders.