Practice Matters
Salt Galata, Salt Beyoğlu
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Practice Matters is a long-term project exploring design, craft, architecture, and spatial practices and their ability to respond to urgent issues of conflict and crisis. The project unfolds through meetings, public events, and publishing and engages with artistic and cultural practices, research and pedagogies, as well as civil society, social movements, and activism. Bringing together a plurality of practices, fields of knowledge, and experiences, it aims to serve as a common space and resource for discussion, collective inquiry, (un-)learning, and (re-)thinking the roles and possibilities of these practices.
Practice Matters was launched in 2025 through a series of public events. In 2026, the project will continue with public programs in Istanbul, Stockholm, and beyond. At Salt, the project will initially evolve around a series of “Kitchen Meetings” that transform Salt Beyoğlu’s Kitchen into a shared space where designers, architects, spatial practitioners, students, and other participants gather around a table and exchange ideas, knowledge, and experiences.
Practice Matters is developed in collaboration between IASPIS and Salt and is programmed by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.
PROGRAM
Kitchen Meetings:
Organizing Spaces for Care and Solidarity: University Community Gardens
Nur Avcı, Ege Mehmet Akman, Öykü Bilici, Ahmet Burak Aslan, Fırat Karakurt, Ekrem Osman Çebi
February 14, 2026, 11.00
Salt Beyoğlu, Kitchen
Talk (IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program):
Collective Prototypes for Regenerative Living
Leah Ireland
October 8, 2025, 18.30
Salt Galata, Workshop IV
Conversation:
Practice Matters: Engaging Communities
Evrim Çoksöyler, Volkan Büyükgüngör, Emre Rona, Maria Richter Simsek, Bediz Yılmaz
September 19, 2025, 17.00
Salt Galata, Workshop IV
Conversation:
Practice Matters: Organising Persistence
Debra Solomon, Aljaž Škrlep, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Merve Gül Özokcu, Mina Öner
May 8, 2025, 09.30
Studio Giardini, Venice
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It includes residencies and public events in Sweden and abroad, alongside publications, expert visits, regional and international collaboration projects, and an archive.
Practice Matters was launched in 2025 through a series of public events. In 2026, the project will continue with public programs in Istanbul, Stockholm, and beyond. At Salt, the project will initially evolve around a series of “Kitchen Meetings” that transform Salt Beyoğlu’s Kitchen into a shared space where designers, architects, spatial practitioners, students, and other participants gather around a table and exchange ideas, knowledge, and experiences.
Practice Matters is developed in collaboration between IASPIS and Salt and is programmed by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.
PROGRAM
Kitchen Meetings:
Organizing Spaces for Care and Solidarity: University Community Gardens
Nur Avcı, Ege Mehmet Akman, Öykü Bilici, Ahmet Burak Aslan, Fırat Karakurt, Ekrem Osman Çebi
February 14, 2026, 11.00
Salt Beyoğlu, Kitchen
Talk (IASPIS Istanbul Exchange Program):
Collective Prototypes for Regenerative Living
Leah Ireland
October 8, 2025, 18.30
Salt Galata, Workshop IV
Conversation:
Practice Matters: Engaging Communities
Evrim Çoksöyler, Volkan Büyükgüngör, Emre Rona, Maria Richter Simsek, Bediz Yılmaz
September 19, 2025, 17.00
Salt Galata, Workshop IV
Conversation:
Practice Matters: Organising Persistence
Debra Solomon, Aljaž Škrlep, Bianca Elzenbaumer, Merve Gül Özokcu, Mina Öner
May 8, 2025, 09.30
Studio Giardini, Venice
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s International Program for Visual and Applied Arts. It includes residencies and public events in Sweden and abroad, alongside publications, expert visits, regional and international collaboration projects, and an archive.
