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Wooland

Wooland and Woolee, living in Wooland. 

A land that had been separated by earthquake was transformed into a wool-based island as a result of mutation. Scientists came to research life on this planet and they create a wool-based creature for this research.

The reasons for the continuous growth of the island are that the creatures that exist on this planet grows and moves. So the planet is actually an island that constantly grows while maintaining its spiral shape.

 Land’s relationship with wool: Because of the genetic mutation, all flora of island turned into wool. And this part formed the great part of the island.

Story of the planet: The land that had been separated by earthquake and had been exposed to mutation became a completely wool-based spiral island. The formation of the island is not fully completed, the creatures that exist on the island are moving and continue to grow. That’s why , sprial island also constantly grows. As this sprial structure continues to grow, it will be a danger to the world. It will harm the plants and animals in the world and will completely disrupt the balance of the world. Because the world and living things in the world do not have any advanced features for living in a wool-based environment. Some scientists aware of this wool-based planet and the potential danger, decided to go to the planet to understand life on the planet and the effects of wool. They build a science tower for themselves on the planet, so that they will be protected from the effects of the planet and will continue to work. Even though they came to investigate the outside life, they do not have the advanced features to adapt to the wool. Therefore, they decided to create a creature that can live in a wool-based planet.

Story of the characters: This is Woole. Creature was created by scientists to investigate life on the wool island. Even he was created by the human , he has a independent life and he is intelligent. Without knowing them, he continues his daily life, eats and builds his own living space. He's alone on the planet now. Scientists who wanted to understand what if humans was based on wool how would adapt themselves to the island created him  in a similar way to the human body. There is no huge physical difference; arms, legs, eyes but the his whole body and his internal system are based on wool, which is the biggest difference from humans. The main reason why his internal system wool is because of make him digest easily. And scientists used antennas for his ears to follow him. 

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Lana planet and its character, Hircum:

Lana is a planet discovered by the scientists in the year 2998. The team of scientists go there for research. 

Our planet, LANA, which means wool in latin was a normal planet at first. But the radiated wool clouds changed the planet and the whole planet mutated into wool. The pink wool of seas surround the 4 islands. 

Story of the characters: Dr. Hircum and his research team got caught in a radioactive wool storm when they stepped into the planet, which made them mutate into half human-half goat creatures. Hircum stepped up as the people were confused and scared, declaring himself King of Lana with the support of 800 people. King Hircum the First lives in his castle in the center isle. His people love him as he is a good leader and they often gift him with fancy tailored things.

The relationship with wool...How is this wool-based?: The bodies of water and lands are all wool except the 3 volcanoes. When the wool is thrown into volcanoes they produce breathable gas. The plants and trees produce edible wool for the residents. The wool storms that happen are the cause of most mutations.

Lana was a normal planet, which then mutated into a radiated wool planet. The plants, trees and the bodies of water are made of wool. They are edible, but they need to throw wool into volcanoes to create breathable gas. The weather is usually Wool Storms.

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First week trials-models

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Day 1

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MFC Project Brief

Main project description:

En. In this workshop, you are expected to design a planet for a wool-based life form, a creature that evolved to suit the life on this planet, the living area of this creature and the daily life objects it uses. In the end of the workshop, you are expected to present how the creature uses the objects in its daily life, and how this planet has its life cycle. The first days will start as group projects, with the creation of your planet.

Tr. Bu atölyede, sizlerden yün tabanlı bir yaşam formu için gezegen ve bu yaşam koşullarına uygun evrimleşmiş bir yaratık, bu yaratığın barınma alanının ve kullandığı günlük objelerin tasarlanması beklenmektedir. Atölyenin sonunda, bu gezegenin nasıl bir döngüye sahip olduğunu ve yaratığın kullandığı objelerin günlük yaşamına nasıl sirayet ettiğini anlatan bir sunum yapmanız gerekmektedir. Atölyenin ilk günleri grup çalışması olarak, gezegeninizin tasarımı ile başlayacaktır.

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Pre-trials with wool material on a ready-made object - 15.07.2019

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Making Felt Castles /Yünden Kaleler Yapmak

Conducted as a part of İstanbul Bilgi University, Summer Workshops 

Dates: August 26 - September 6 2019

This workshop challenges you to rethink about the objects you see in everyday life, and questions how the meanings of objects can change when the material changes.

Through this workshop, we will see the context changes of everyday objects by using different materials. We will observe these changes through our own experiences. In the first week, we will start our experiments with wool material, and use everyday objects as our molds. In the second week, we will use several materials to re-shape/ re-function/ re-contextualize these objects, design our final proposals and present them in the end. We will be observing the relationship between the process of producing the material and the DIY/making culture, while questioning how we characterize the objects.

Day 1: Introduction, first meetings

Day 2/3: First experiments with materials

Day 4/5: Experiments with several ready-made objects

Day 6. First ideas and presentations

Day 7/8/9: Experimenting with chosen materials and forms

Day 10: Final presentations

Keywords: Handcrafts, material culture, material research, making, everyday objects

İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi  Yaz.90 Atölyeleri, 2019 kapsamında yürütülecektir. Tarihler: 26 Ağustos-6 Eylül 2019

Bu atölyede, gündelik hayatta gördüğümüz nesneleri farklı materyaller ile üreterek, anlamlarının nasıl değişebileceğini sorgulayacağız. Farklı malzemeler kullanarak kendi deneyimlerimize göre günlük nesnelerin bağlamlarının nasıl değişebileceğini gözlemleyeceğiz. İlk hafta deneylerimize yün vb. malzemelerle başlayacak ve günlük nesneleri kalıp olarak kullanacağız. Daha sonra, benzer malzemeleri kullanarak nihai ürünlerimizi oluşturup sunacağız.

Atölye çalışmasının önemli bir çıktısı, bu nesnelerin bize nasıl hissettirdiği, onları nasıl yorumladığımız ve malzeme üretimi sırasındaki deneyimlerimız olacak. Malzeme ile yapma kültürü üzerinden üretme süreçleri ile üreten kişi arasındaki ilişkiyi de inceliyor olacağız.

1. gün: Giriş, atölye strüktürünün açıklanması, tanışma, kişi dağılımı

2./3. gün: Malzeme/üretim denemeleri

4./5. gün: Malzeme ile kalıp denemeleri

6. gün: İlk fikirler ve sunumlar

7/8/9. gün: Seçilen malzeme ve formlarla üretim denemeleri

10. gün: Final sunumlar

Workshop opened by Berilsu Tarcan