Exhibition Design Academy
How do we measure things? And who decides what counts? Geo-Design presents Tartı School, an installation about measurement, art and design.
Jun 6, 2026 – Apr 1, 2027
Füsun Onur, Let’s Meet at the Orient, 1995. Photo: Peter Cox
The works in this room are arranged around a balance, an interpretation of various devices to measure level and mass, such as a Kibble balance, plumb bob, and air water balance. The installation shows how art and design deal with the way we extract, value, and distribute matters, things, and resources, and the way we measure and scale these processes.
Tartı School consists of two parts. In the summer school, works by Geo-Design alumni enter into dialogue with the Van Abbemuseum’s design collection. The winter school, as part of Geo-Design curriculum, explores measurement and value regimes play a role at ASML.
The project is brought together by Merve Bedir and developed with Metahaven, heads of Geo-Design.
Installation by: Geo-Design (Design Academy Eindhoven)
Department Heads: Metahaven
Alumni works: Yuhan Fang 方语涵, Aleksandra Nazarova, Benze De Ream
Scaffold for the curriculum: Balance without coil and magnet. Merve Bedir
Van Abbemuseum design collection: Constant Permeke, stanley brouwn, Füsun Onur, Studio Brynjar & Veronika, Otobong Nkanga
