PRACTICE MATTERS: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES

PRACTICE MATTERS: ENGAGING COMMUNITIES

Date: 19 September 2025
Time: 5 –9 PM
Place: Salt Galata, Istanbul, Türkiye

Practice Matters is a project inquiring, highlighting and discussing design, craft, architecture, spatial and urban practice, and the ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts. This event, taking place on the occasion of the Istanbul Biennale 2025, brings together practitioners to discuss how to organise rural and urban communities in response to shared social and environmental challenges.

Presentations and discussions with Volkan Büyükgüngör, Evrim Çoksöyler, Emre Rona, Maria Richter Simsek and Bediz Yılmaz, hosted by Magnus Ericson and Eylül Şenses.

Practice Matters: Engaging Communities is organised as a collaboration between IASPIS and Salt. The programme is curated by Magnus Ericson (IASPIS) and Eylül Şenses (Salt).

More info: www.iaspis.se | www.saltonline.org

Image courtesy of Maria Richter Simsek,

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