
İZMİR REGIONAL OFFICES KEMERALTI IN THE PROCESS OF URBAN RENEWAL
A CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECT
KEMERALTI ART WORKSHOPS IN-
GENERAL INFORMATION RELATING TO THE PROJECT:
Three Steps Agora
Hellenistic need Besides being a commercial city in ancient Smyrna period, both Roman and new ideas in the Ottoman period and discipline philosophical schools has consistently been a region that interact in the East-West axis. Establishing a platform where theoretical discussions in the fields of philosophy, art and social sciences based on Protagoras-Heraclitus-Pythagoras, the founding trivet of the Ionian Natural Philosophical schools, will add a new breath to the intellectual climate of the city.
Urban History Research Laboratory in the Breeze of Smyrna
APİKAM, Izmir universities, history-research departments, local historians, international Mediterranean research centers that can be performed in collaboration with the
screening archive, documentation and documentary film work arcades and the Old Port District will provide a focus for the written and oral history research terms.
Exhibitions of Plastic Arts
In the thematic, Izmir Exhibition projects aimed at artists or that can be developed with international collaborations will turn Kemeraltı into a vibrant, permanent art museum.
Gastronomy Activities
The presentation of the classic and forgotten flavors of the Aegean and the creation of a gourmet street that will be an alternative to Kordon with professional-hobby gastronomy trainings.
Shoe and Coppersmiths Museum
Kemeraltı, which was the center of handmade shoes and copper products production workshops in the past, is a workshop museum establishment that can be considered as the memory of this subject. This organization aims to bring both a function related to urban memory and brand values related to the boutique production sector together with designers with a new generation understanding.
Glasswork Workshop
Glass blowing and stained glass workshops aim to bring together glass materials and products, which have endless recycling possibilities, with the sector seeking alternative in the international market with the understanding of low capital investment-intensive labor that can be found in Italy and Germany.
Tourist Point of Contact
Zone touristic point of view, our prediction that evolves advent of professional guidelines of the meeting center and tourist needs are programmed so the establishment of contact points to serve the professional level to the needs of this sector.
Veterans
meeting of ancient arcades skilled in the art, locally and activity system that can respond to the social needs of socialization and retirement.
Design Studio: Dream Factory
To bring together designers from different disciplines and in specific thematic workshops, this work aims to bring together print-digital publication of the results.
National and International Artist Workshops and Residences
Summer hosts artists who work in the fields of plastic arts, contemporary and performing arts and music in the Kemeraltı region, serving both the formation of permanent products for the promotion of the region and the development of young artists with workshop activities that can be done with these artists.
Bookstore- Second Hand- Ephemera-Auctions
Particular Izmir and Aegean region in the context of the valuable printed material of cultural memory professionally-recorded marketing targets the sectoral meetings at the international level.
Music House
Facing thematic music training workshops for various age and occupational groups, with the musical instrument making workshop and choir activities Creating music programs in terms of social organization and culture.
I saw the sea
From Anatolia and Izmir, maritime and diving courses for school readiness of young people to the maritime profession from the ghetto.
Graffiti Actions Providing
The empty spaces in the region with permanent or periodic graffiti-mural works is a visual feast.
International Performance Festival District Festival
Products produced in the arcades, antique products, a festive street carnival that blends the flavors and street performances.
Representations-Introductions
Izmir Representatives and promotional activity desks of charities such as Buğday Association for Ecological Life, Needs Map, Friends and organizations working for the public good.
Acoustic concerts Thematic
Area of the tradesmen working order will not affect the direction of the noise, acoustic concert activities limited to certain areas.
Performance-based theater activities
With the street theater, Buluntu Alan Theater and theatrical performances, Kemeraltı is an active.
Search of Ports Research
Documentary documentation and online international publications on the identification of the historical inventory related to the search for the cultural-artistic traces of Izmir in the ports surrounding the Mediterranean geography.
Aeneas Returns
Continuous exhibition of the artistic products that will be produced by the artists who will be invited to Izmir from the Mediterranean Port Cities, as a result of living in the Kemeraltı region for a certain period of time, at regular intervals throughout the year. 4 artists a year will be enough to get started.
* Aeneas: Mythological character who founded the historical city of Rome after escaping at the end of the Trojan war and taking refuge in Italy.
Gatherers
To enable the poor Kemeraltı children to meet personal historical stories. Meeting with storytellers and storytellers, watching interviews, collecting and recording stories by themselves, and publishing these stories in different formats.
Agora Rhapsody
Feature film. It is a fun but at the same time dramatic story that begins in the late 70's when a shoemaker apprentice working in Kemeraltı fell in love with a married Romani girl. The people of the harbor will be trained before shooting and will take part in the production as actors, musicians and technical staff.