?Today, design has become a form of inquiry, power, and agency,? say Jan Boelen and Deniz Ova, curator and director of the 2018 Istanbul Design Biennial. ?It has become vaster than the world itself, permeating all layers of everyday life.? Their curatorial statement for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, which opens later this year themed with the title ?A School of Schools,? seeks to explore how design education, and education in general, can evolve and adapt in a new age of artificial intelligence.

Yapi Kredi Kultur Yayincilik, Biennial Venue. Image © Koray Senturk via IKSV

?Today, design has become a form of inquiry, power, and agency,? say Jan Boelen and Deniz Ova, curator and director of the 2018 Istanbul Design Biennial. ?It has become vaster than the world itself, permeating all layers of everyday life.? Their curatorial statement for the 4th Istanbul Design Biennial, which opens later this year themed with the title ?A School of Schools,? seeks to explore how design education, and education in general, can evolve and adapt in a new age of artificial intelligence.The team is determined that the Biennial should not read as a two-year scheduled event, but should ?reinvent itself and become a productive, process-orientated platform for education and design to research, experiment, and learn in.? The team is undoubtedly well equipped for the challenge.Boelen is director of Z33 House of Contemporary Art in Belguim which fashions projects and exhibitions ...