After much work with selecting, editing and layouting, the third catalog of the TWO CITIES project was printed at Kettler Verlag in Bönen at the end of 2021.
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The Final Meeting
The last meeting was held on Wednesday in the photography department of the university of art in Tehran.
Continue reading “The Final Meeting”Bāygān: House of Photographs & Words
During her delegation Samaneh Khosravi visited the Bāygān Institute, which has been opened for almost a year by renowned artist, Ms. Ghazaleh Hedayat, in Tehran. Ms. Mahboube Karmali, a participant of TWO CITIES 2019 and 2021 workshop, works in this institute and gave an explanation about it.
Continue reading “Bāygān: House of Photographs & Words”Portfolio Review
Samaneh Khosravi, workshop assistant, explained to the students of the Tehran University of Art, who are interested in studying photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts, how to apply for bachelor’s or master’s degrees. Afterwards they had the opportunity to show and discuss about their portfolios and to look at Khosravi’s publications.
Continue reading “Portfolio Review”TWO CITIES is in TV
One day after the opening, ISNA – a famous Iranian Students News Agency visited TWO CITIES exhibition to make a report about the third and last exhibition of the workshop.
Continue reading “TWO CITIES is in TV”The Final Exhibition
With all the available help of the Iranian students and Research Assistants the photographies, which were made during the workshop 2021, were installed in the gallery Negarkhaneh Honar in Tehran.
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Four years of the TWO CITIES Project between the University of Art in Tehran and the Fachhochschule Dortmund – University of Applied Sciences and Arts are coming to an end in difficult times – but fullfill all those involved even more with a certain pride in their success.
Continue reading “The Final Conference”The TWO CITIES Café
The TWO CITIES project was a dialogue from the beginning, about photography and design, but also about people, about cultures, about language, about history, about customs, about food and drink. How is it in Iran? What is it like in Germany? “If you take a trip, you can tell a story,” the German poet Matthias Claudius once claimed. But what if traveling is not possible? How can a university dialogue succeed, how can students almost 4000 kilometers apart get to know each other without being able to meet? The Corona pandemic also gave us this challenge.
Continue reading “The TWO CITIES Café”TWO CITIES became virtual, the third and last Workshop 2th May – 17th July 2021
After the successful realization of the TWO CITIES workshop in 2018 and 2019, the third year of the workshop was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic and travel restrictions.
Continue reading “TWO CITIES became virtual, the third and last Workshop 2th May – 17th July 2021”The last day – The last meeting
The Iranian students and German teachers team met each other at Vala Studio, a design studio in the city center. This session was planned for the students to talk about their concepts based on what they had written in the last days about their photographic projects in Tehran.
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