The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, which brings together different formats with the support of the ‘contributing organization’ Nippon Paint, the paint brand that offers creative solutions for living spaces, continues until November 15, 2020.

This year, the biennial will meet the audience in 3 different formats: exhibitions, outdoor installations in public spaces, and digital video series.Bringing an aesthetic and at the same time functional touch to living spaces with innovative solutions, Nippon Paint contributes to the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial held this year.

The 5th Istanbul Design Biennial, which starts on October 15, will be welcoming its viewers until November 15, 2020. Curated by Mariana Pestana with Sumitra Upham and Billie Muraben, the biennial titled 'Return to Empathy': design for more than one, will be hosting projects by participants from different countries and disciplines in exhibition spaces, on the streets of Istanbul and in the digital environment.

The projects in the exhibition venues will be open to visitors until November 15, 2020, while the installations, research projects and video series in the city will continue until April 30, 2021. 5. Istanbul Design Biennial program…Programs such as the video series titled 'Critical Cooking Program', which will be broadcast digitally; The Land and Sea Library Program, which will bring together projects from the Mediterranean basin to ARK Kültür in Cihangir, and a series of installations called 'New Citizenship Rituals', where projects on reconsidering living together that will extend to different parts of the city as well as the Pera Museum, will bring the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial audience together on 3 axes.

Biennial followers can watch the video series titled 'Critical Cooking Program', which questions how the shopping, supply and consumption of food at home are intertwined with the ecological, economic and geopolitical conditions affecting today's culture.

Episodes will be published every Sunday on İKSV's YouTube channel, the Biennial's website and the e-flux architecture platform until February 28. Visitors in Istanbul can book a place at the Land and Sea Library, which will be located at ARK Kültür until November 15, and learn about the 10 research projects supported by the biennial.

All of these projects, which draw attention to the less visible networks of food production in the Mediterranean basin and explore our relationship with soil and water, are all driven by care and activism. Visitors can also find 2 large installations by The Rodina and Kyriaki Goni, and a film series called 'Empathy Sessions', which expands the concept of empathy, at Pera Museum.

In parks, gardens, and piers across the city, they can experience long-term interventions involving humans as well as birds, stars, plants, and microorganisms, and staging the interaction of different bodies at different scales as they explore new ways of encountering, as part of the 'New Citizenship Rituals' program.