IN-PERSON ISTANBUL HERITAGE(S)

Abstract

Considering the contemporary demands of the design process—which involves seeking optimal outcomes while exploring the full potential of a project across multiple parameters (cultural, technical etc)—the aim is to clarify how this process is evolving. Specifically, it examines how actualization, in Deleuzian philosophical sense, occurs through the interpretations of various subjects, while remaining anchored in a central guiding force: the architect’s intention. It is about a space-time process which is built on the Deleuzian relationship virtual – actual, where there isn’t a final object, but mostly an interpretation of its transformation. Nowadays, the interest shifts to the process and not to the final outcome. The difference between object and project concerns the virtualization included in the undefined object, or in other words the redefined object produced by the constant interaction with the subject. The design object is an n-dimensional space, where n the dimensions, the parameters of the object. This process is ideally revealed in the design of a temporary exhibition space, as it is based on a narrative that arises from many different contexts. The exhibition used, took place at the National Gallery in Athens, Greece, in 2022, and was titled ‘In Search of Immortality: The Art of the Portrait in the Collections of the Louvre’. Discourse ascribes various dimensions to the object and constitutes a multiplicity. The constant interaction between different contexts is defined as the interaction between different dimensions. The completed reality is defined as the one reality that has been actualized by a virtual structure of its multiple interpretations. These interpretations are organized into different generalizations – metalanguages, which form distinct constant – variable relationships, from Hjelmslev’s linguistic field of reference. The comparison of the interpretations visualizes the process through the construction of the final signifier.