The 3rd Istanbul Design Biennial, Are We Human?, is curated by Columbia GSAPP Professor and Dean Emeritus Mark Wigley and Princeton University Professor Beatriz Colomina. Opening on 22 October 2016, the Biennial includes the work of many Columbia GSAPP faculty, students, and alumni, including Professor Andrés Jaque and his Office for Political Innovation as exhibition designer.
Columbia GSAPP’s Studio-X Istanbul serves as one of the five main venues for the Biennial, hosting one of the four “clouds” of overlapping projects called Designing Life. It features experimental work on new forms of mechanical, electronic and biological life – including projects by GSAPP professors Juan Herreros, Hilary Sample and David Benjamin.