Workshop:
"Writing-With the Garden: Intersectional Writing for Collective Concurrences"
Leah Ireland
October 11, 2025 15.00 – 18.00
Post Pavement long table dinner at Hofs Lifs with a collective tea harvesting ritual and collective cooking workshop
Photo: Leah Ireland
Photo: Leah Ireland
Kuzguncuk Urban Garden
Southern Sweden-based designer and eco-social activist Leah Ireland will lead a collective writing workshop as part of the IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program.
The workshop aims to explore situated writing practices and storytelling methods that contribute to eco-social justice. Led by Ireland, participants will map out topics related to their practices and cross-pollinate stories from which to write. At the end of the workshop, participants will present their work and engage in reflection. Emphasis will be on the collective writing process, and all individually written material is up to each participant to share.
This free-admission program will be held in English. The workshop is limited to 20 participants and is open to individuals from all backgrounds interested in art, design, ecology, and related fields. Please register via this form.
Leah Ireland is a Canadian-born designer and eco-social activist who explores the complexities of food ecologies and regenerative practices through site-responsive actions and interventions. She is driven by a deep interest in urban spatial politics, regenerative design, and multispecies modalities. Her design practice has been situated in socially engaged organizations such as the Feminist Farmers, VXO FARMLab, and Hofs Lifs. Ireland is the founder of FLOW studios and an external lecturer in the Design Department at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
The IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program has been initiated in 2024 in collaboration between Salt and IASPIS, with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. The 2025 edition is programmed by Eylül Şenses at Salt in collaboration with Aslı Kıyak İngin.
Southern Sweden-based designer and eco-social activist Leah Ireland will lead a collective writing workshop as part of the IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program.
The workshop aims to explore situated writing practices and storytelling methods that contribute to eco-social justice. Led by Ireland, participants will map out topics related to their practices and cross-pollinate stories from which to write. At the end of the workshop, participants will present their work and engage in reflection. Emphasis will be on the collective writing process, and all individually written material is up to each participant to share.
This free-admission program will be held in English. The workshop is limited to 20 participants and is open to individuals from all backgrounds interested in art, design, ecology, and related fields. Please register via this form.
Leah Ireland is a Canadian-born designer and eco-social activist who explores the complexities of food ecologies and regenerative practices through site-responsive actions and interventions. She is driven by a deep interest in urban spatial politics, regenerative design, and multispecies modalities. Her design practice has been situated in socially engaged organizations such as the Feminist Farmers, VXO FARMLab, and Hofs Lifs. Ireland is the founder of FLOW studios and an external lecturer in the Design Department at Linnaeus University in Växjö, Sweden.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
The IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program has been initiated in 2024 in collaboration between Salt and IASPIS, with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul and the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul. The 2025 edition is programmed by Eylül Şenses at Salt in collaboration with Aslı Kıyak İngin.
