“VBenzeri Tasarım Maratonu” (V Like Design Marathon) was held at building Industry Center December 20-21, 2014, with the participation of design and architecture students. The theme this year of the marathon; organized as a side event of 2nd İstanbul Design Biennial, seeking formation of projects working in groups for 24 hours in the same space, was the three potential disasters of today and the near future. At the marathon where three potential disasters with headings “Poisoning to be Created by Anoxic Character of Black Sea”, “Tornado and Hurricanes” and “Rising of Sea Level”; projects were developed with reference to Karaköy, one of the important coastal areas of İstanbul.
With the selected theme; what is sought is to demonstrate that preparations to be made during and after the disaster, will be taken as a positive reason for developing new technological design related and structural ideas. It is planned that the projects presented at the end of the design marathon, will be evaluated with experts from various fields. It is scheduled that the projects opening the theme to debate best, will be made public in a colloquium, digital medium and a physical venue.
