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Set to take place from 7 to 27 September , the inaugural London Design Biennale will feature projects from over thirty countries, which were called to respond to the theme of 'Utopia by Design,' celebrating the th anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's classic, Utopia Coordinated by the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Turkey's contribution to the biennale presents 'The Wish Machine,' a project undertaken by the Istanbul-based multidisciplinary design studio, Autoban.
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The installation takes direct inspiration from the 'wish-tree', a cultural tradition deeply rooted in the ancient Anatolian faith and found in ancient Greek, Kabala and Persian believes. Its origins can be tracked back to the Neolithic.
It operates on a simple mechanism that involves affixing a note or a memento to a branch of a tree as an act of hope born out of hopelessness. In this act, the tree becomes a place of last resort for one's hopes and wishes, which are pinned on universal powers, in the hope that they can change the supplicant's fate. The installation located in West Wing G1A at Somerset House appears as an interactive pneumatic system operating in a mirrored space.
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Visitors will be invited to walk through a tunnel that is made of transparent hexagonal tubes. They will share their hopes and wishes, vision of utopias, and aspiration for the future, by writing them on paper, and feeding them to the Wish Machine through a lid at the dead end. Notes will then travel back through the tubes to a place out of visitors' sight, as if their destination is a place unknown.
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Just like throwing coins to the depths of a lake or lighting a candle to make a wish come true, the final destination being addressed will remain a mystery. Thomas More could have not imagined how his bequest utopia changed tremendously within time.
Global warming, growing violence, war and terror are threatening the human future and causing displacement and migration. In these dark moments, utopias become more evident and important. Today, looking at the maps of migration, one can see the emergence of a new kind of wish-tree around Europe. Not in the form of tying small notes to a tree, but manifested in the migration of populations searching for a utopian country as they flee war.
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