Stage Cycle

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“Stage Cycle” is a model proposal for a “Digital Share-Based Network” is presented to enable sustainability in set and costume designs. This new model with a new perspective on theater design aimed to make environmentally friendly, sustainable, digitally achievable designs. The set-costume-prop pieces designed and produced for theater plays and after theater season is over they are kept in warehouses. The storage process generally results in accumulation or eventually disposal of the stored parts over the years. Essentially, design itself seeks and demands the unique for each work; but it loses its function after being used in productions for one or few more seasons. In 2020, pandemic restrictions physically removed theater companies from their audience. Now, set and costume design and applications created a higher financial burden more than regular seasons for small private troupes. Thus, efficient, need-oriented and systematic use of design elements in productions becomes crucially important. “Stage Cycle” focuses on the concepts of sharing, upcycling and zero waste in the field of stage design, and it is framed in four stages: “Production, Linkage, Circulation and Heritage”. With these interdependent steps, a comprehensive, collective and cyclical system was designed. The project was carried out through questionnaires and interviews and the universe is limited with academics and students in stage design. In accordance with data obtained during the study, sustainable approach towards recycling in the theater and stage design in Turkey are compiled  to understand sustainable stage design and to initiated it nationally.

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