{"id":154,"date":"2008-06-16T22:59:36","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tigoe.net\/blog\/category\/uncategorized\/154\/"},"modified":"2008-06-16T22:59:36","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T03:59:36","slug":"istanbul-not-constantinople","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tigoe.com\/blog\/category\/misc\/154\/","title":{"rendered":"Istanbul (not Constantinople)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Selcuk Artut<\/a> at Sabanci University<\/a>, I had the opportunity to go to Istanbul last month to give a workshop<\/a> based on Making Things Talk<\/a>. It was a really great trip. The workshop blog contains links to the parts used, and a resource blog for interaction designers in Turkish.<\/p>\n

Istanbul is an incredible city, large, energetic, dense, sprawling, and beautiful. Well worth seeing. My touristy pics are online on Flickr<\/a>. I was particularly struck by the large number of cats<\/a> all around the city. The workshop attendees were wonderful. They were energetic, patient with the loads of material I threw at them, and creative in their use of the stuff. I had a really great time working and visiting with them all. There were a number of great project ideas that came out of the three days we spent together.<\/p>\n

I also got to hear some of Selcuk’s band, Replikas<\/a>, which I highly recommend. Been stuck in my iPod since I got back. Sadly, they weren’t playing any gigs while I was there, so I’ll have to go back.<\/p>\n

A few other links from the trip:<\/p>\n

Newspaperbox<\/a>, a project from Selcuk’s department is a news aggregator that uses tree maps in an interesting way to suggest a newspaper layout, but give information about the length and import of the stories in a useful way.<\/p>\n

Yeni (New)<\/a>, a performance piece by Genco G\u00c3\u00bclan, that we saw on my last night there. It was visually stunning, pix on the flickr site above.<\/p>\n

Overall, a wonderful trip and one I hope to repeat someday. Belated thanks to Selcuk and Sila for their incredible hospitality, Mustafa and Osman for showing me around Sabanci and the city, and everyone else who I met on the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Selcuk Artut at Sabanci University, I had the opportunity to go to Istanbul last month to give a workshop based on Making Things…<\/p>\n

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