We Design The Roots Of Tomorrow
FREEDOM
I got my driver’s license in 1992. I only drove for a few months in England during the end of 1994. I returned to 0stanbul in 1996.
I never planned on taking a 27-year break from sitting in the driver’s seat. But as the years passed, I noticed that the idea of driving a vehicle scared me. As a person who often mixed her left and right, I exaggerated my fear of potential mistakes while driving.
Every year, the idea of driving took its place in my “to-do” list, but my inability to cross it out with my green pen got me further and further away from it.
Thanks to my brother Olcay’s insistence, at the beginning of last year, I finally cracked my egg.
Experiencing driving a car in 0stanbul after 50; Magnificent. A living, chaotic forest: Could I compare driving in 0stanbul to walking among wolves in high heels?
What do you think?
I continue on my way after getting through 19.640 km in 9 months on 0stanbul and Northern Aegean roads.
Facing my fear that I nurtured for years and designing my freedom is incredible.
My eyes sparkle with the power and feeling of freedom coming from correctly driving and moving a machine that weighs approximately 2000 kg.
Are you smiling?
Keep in mind, everyone has a different timeline in their achievements.
DESIGNING life without fears in enlivening.
BREATHING
Sometimes we all get breathless.
Either what we did or what we couldn’t do, chokes us up:
Our failures as much as our successes,
Those that we left behind as much as those we walk with,
Dreams that we silently dropped into bucket of our desires as much as those we realized,
Much more than the known productions of designers are in that desire pit. Sometimes, we miss those that we left in the pit, but we also know that what we produce today we carries their traces, too…
A new DESIGN = Taking risks.
We redesign our lives each and every day.
While creating these designs, the circle of our loved ones are there next to us.
We breathe and wander in the big and small circles that we live in.
Who designs these circles? Who and how?
The first circles around us are important. It would be a real struggle to breathe in most case is if it weren’t for the first circle of people.
Here, we all open all doors.
Don’t we?
Is it possible to DESIGN life freely and honestly, without hurting our loved ones?
SHARING
KitWriting and designing a book was a first foWriting and designing a book was a first for me.
Unpredictable and changing.
I believe I went through a scary, but a creative process.
It was a journey that reshaped me.
When I Look Back...
Snippets from my life and design journey.
Seeing what I achieved and have not.
Realizing my successes and failures.
Trying to understand my transformation due to my designs and productions,
Becoming courageous to evaluate, and to blueprint on paper,
All these have been a magnificent experience.
I excitedly dive into unknown waters and DESIGN new dreams.
DINING
In my opinion, one of the places that we live and share our lives to the fullest is the dinner table.
Around the table, we can talk about all the details of life, laugh, cry, and argue with our beloved ones. Think, while we do these things, we also slowly get the nutrients that are vital for our lives...
Wonderful,
I feel free to design my table and share it with the people I love, but first, I pay attention the likes and desires of my loved ones.
Hospitality and sharing.
What should we cook?
Should we select the tableware in harmoniously with the food we cook?
Or in harmony with the friends we share it with?
Should we set up a table depending on the season?
What is exciting is that we can DESIGN our table depending to our mood each and every day, together with family and friends.
TALKING
We let behind the 2nd year of the new decade.
Let’s countdown from 8.
They say we will run out of food by 2030s.
Is it not scary ?
What else will we consume to change the timeline of seasons?
These past few years, we were already experince the four seasons of a year in a month, and now we experince that four seasons in a day.
Why are we not surprised?
What else will we be doing deteriorate the climate change?
What kind of a world are we leaving to our children and grandchildren with our covetous ambitions?
Do we even care?
What kind of a home and world do we want to design?
How can we design today and tomorrow together?
Who should take what responsibility?
I want to talk and share more.
Let’s talk and understand each other.
Let’s aim to explain and understand
Let’s sit around the table to DESIGN the upcoming years in good faith.