KALE BECAME A PRODUCTION PARTNER FOR THE CITY’S PANELS

Kale Design and Art Center, which believes in the transformative power of art with its "Take Care of Your World" approach, has begun supporting The City’s Panels, a digital archive project for Turkey's architecture and art collaboration, as a production partner.

Kale Design and Art Center (KTSM) supports the development of innovative and creative ideas by placing sustainability at its core. In line with this approach, KTSM has begun supporting the City's Panels, a digital archive project for Turkiye's architecture and art collaboration, as a production partner.

Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, IMC

As part of the production partnership, the City’s Panels and KTSM aim to strengthen collective artistic memory and make traces of the past visible in today's cities. The project, which will present Turkiye's ceramic and mosaic panels as an archive documenting cultural memory, focuses on passing this heritage on to future generations through a digital archive website (www.sehrinpanolari.com), public art walks, oral history interviews with artists, research papers, and workshops.

From Bedri Rahmi to Ilgi Adalan…

Numerous ceramic and mosaic panels by Ilgi Adalan, Yalcin Tokay, Taci Alpaslan, Cevdet Altug, Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu, Eren Eyuboglu, and anonymous artists grace the facades of buildings in Kadıkoy. Similar examples can be found in various cities across Turkiye, particularly in Ankara and Izmir. Interviews with the artists revealed that most of the large-scale panels were produced at the Kaleseramik Factory in Can between 1950 and 1980.

Bağdat Street

Simge Abay, Kale Group's Corporate Communications and Impact Investments Director, said, "The City's Panels make visible the works that form the city's memory, works we often pass by without noticing. As KTSM, we are delighted to contribute to the preservation of this collective memory and to be a part of this journey that unites the past and the present."

Nurtac Buluc, founding partner of the City’s Panels, said, “Architecture and art collaborations that create the memory of an era emerge as works that strengthen social dialogue and awareness in urban spaces. Since 2019, we have been researching, documenting, archiving, and preserving these works. With people from various cities across Turkiye noticing and sharing them with us, the City’s Panels quickly transformed into a major crowdsourcing project. We are now with KTSM on this shared journey; we are delighted to be together to preserve and make visible these works.”