Ege Kögel
Ege Kökel is a designer/artistic researcher with an interest in natural sciences and futures. She uses design as a tool for research, speculation and discussion. Collaborating with others and other disciplines and exploring different points of view are important aspects of her work. She is the co-founder of the art collective DTAFA (Danube Transformation Agency for Agency). In 2019, she graduated from Industrial Design/Design Investigations at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Center for Book Arts NY, Amstelpark in Amsterdam, and the Global Grad Show Dubai. Recently, the collective DTAFA was awarded two prizes by Ö1 "Repair of the Future". Currently she is interested in crafting and more-than-human perspectives.
© Mohamed Boshnaf
Fellowship: SOHO Studios
ALONG THE YORGAN
A workshop series for collective imagining and crng by Ege Kökel at SOHO Studis supported by inititiative kültüř gemm
When you think about future, how do you feel? Hopeful? Worried? Or a mixture of both? What keeps you awake in the middle of the night? In a workshop series at SOHO Studios in the following months, participants collaboratively explore these questions with the help of traditional handicraft of quilting. Quilting is an ancient production method of duvets that has been practiced in Anatolia for centuries. Traditional quilts/yorgans provide comfort for its users with their healthy materiality and motifs such as clovers, vines, or peacocks. These motifs symbolize concepts like abundance, eternity and peace. Particpants will imagine better futures and create new motifs that represent these futures, fight our collective fears and accelerate our shared hopes. Bright satin, soft cotton, heavy wool and skillfully embroidered symbols will accompany everyone in their pursuit of collective comfort. So, let’s meet along the yorgan!