Autumn School on Geometric Patterns in Islamic Art with Prof. Majewski.

The Autumn School of Geometric Patterns in Islamic Art with Prof. Miroslaw Majewski

This program at the Istanbul Design Center is planned as a one week regular course with about 30 hours of lectures and tutorial classes. This event will have a typical school / university structure – each class for 45-50 minutes, homework, certificate documents, etc. At the end of the program there will be an exhibition at the IDC displaying the works that students will have completed during the course. If you are a university student, you can consider it as a 2 credit course in the American or British system.

During the program on some afternoons we will have walking excursions to different places in the old town of Istanbul, exploring geometric patterns and evaluating them.

Program:we are going to cover Central Asian methods of geometric pattern design. The course will start completely from scratch and go to the medium level pattern design techniques. Large part of the course will be devoted to analysis and outcomes from Topkapi, Mirza Akbar Khan and Tashkent scrolls.

In the beginning of the course you will have to forget everything what you have learned before about constructing geometric patterns. For this reason the course will be perfect for a complete freshmen. Note, we will rather concentrate on techniques and methods, than on a specific patterns. The outcome of this approach is that participants will be able to start quickly their own designs.

This course is a unique opportunity to learn theory and methodology created by the presenter after many years of his research in Central Asian scientific literature (mostly in Russian), resources in museums and archaeological sites of Central Asia and Turkey, discussions with scientists from Uzbekistan and Iran.

The course content was never published or presented in the West. Small parts of it were published only in Polish journal Mathematics for Teachers in a series of articles in 2016/2017.

Dates: 01-07 October 2017

Duration: 30 hours

Total fee for participation: 100 euros

We ask you to confirm your participation before the 20 June 2017, because of the limited capacity.

Participants:Artists, architects, mathematics teachers, students.

(Since the participation capacity is limited, the participants will be selected from the pre-registrants by Prof. Majewski.)

Number of participants: 20 persons.

Language: English (translation into Turkish will be provided if necessary)

All the students’ works made during the course are participant’s property with one exception – your final work that will be exhibited at the IDC at the end of the course and it will be left at the IDC for their archives.

Detailed info about the program program and instructor: 

http://istanbuldesigncenter.org/autumn-school-of-geometric-patterns-in-islamic-art-with-prof-majewski_L242.html

https://symmetrica.wordpress.com/author/majewski/

Contact us anytime if you have any questions regarding the program: http://istanbuldesigncenter.org/iletisim.php

Looking forward to hear from you!

IDC team