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Strait & Bound (& Scrubbed)

Heading to Istanbul tomorrow to learn about what the students of ITU (İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi) Department of Industrial Product Design are up to, and if all goes to plan present material on using ethnography to inform & inspire the design process. Özlem Er is the host if you're near the Bosporus and wish to attend.

Incidentally in Japanese a turkish bath (in Japanese torukoburo) was a euphemism for a bath-house-sex-massage-parlour, until that is the Turkish government protested and pushed through an official name change. The back story to how Japanese 'Turkish Baths' became Soaplands is written up here.

Writing from Tokyo | April 23, 2007 | Permalink