Dolmusxpress is a bilingual, dual city based publishing project born out of the pandemic in 2020. As co-editors, T. Hürkan Urhan and I—living in Ankara and Berlin, respectively—set out to bridge the artistic worlds of these two cities. What started as a simple desire to connect through art has grown into a vibrant platform showcasing… Continue reading
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Protected: About The Thresholds // The Creative Activity of Drying Alginate Plates
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Materiality of the Viscous Sugary Liquids // Honeycase
The magical chemistry of honey is that sugars (glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose) are kept sealed together with minerals, vitamins, enzymes and some carbohydrates in a sharply specific amount of water in a honeycomb made of beeswax which is used as a building material, as well as a sealing film against intruders of the hive such… Continue reading
Bauhaus Style // Mass production is not a joke.
Bauhaus style, also known as international style, is a design movement that stems from experimentation and invention of the new materials, forms and production techniques which is closely affected by power and political relations of its time. Designing for mass production is a delicate manner, since large amounts of products are supposed to be produced… Continue reading
Notes from a Field Trip // Forest of EBERSWALDE
The wood is actually a very sustainable resource and a durable building material when it is used consciously. It is very spectacular that, trees grow better as the density of carbon dioxide increases in the air since carbon is a very important element in the biological production process of cellulose.
OD LAB / Arduino Uno / Experiments / Applications
Arduino is an open source platform supported with hardware and software which can easily be used and operated by makers all around the world. I had a chance to play with it thanks to OD LAB conference offered by a joint degree master program, Master of Open Design, which is being held by UBA and… Continue reading
VMD and Exploring Forces Behind Protein Folding
Form and function is an important algorithm when it comes to molecular interactions. What is aimed here was a naive attempt to understand the great folding and coding pattern of nature in scale of molecules and atoms. Objectives of this experiment are exploring Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) which is an open source software that is… Continue reading