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Royal College of Art launches CLIMAVORE x Jameel partnership with Cooking Sections for unique sustainability research

2023-04-04T17:12:00-04:00

A new three-year partnership between the Royal College of Art (RCA), nonprofit Community Jameel, and the London-based former Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections has been announced by the institution in the hopes of using architecture as a tool to advance our knowledge of agriculture-related sustainability practices in the built environment.

The school’s new CLIMAVORE x Jameel partnership will focus on two projects which “reimagine how we eat as human activity changes the climate by developing new methodologies and enhancing policies around the globe.”

The initiative is being led by Cooking Sections co-founders Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual. The RCA says they will look to leverage “architectural and artistic investigative tools, education and action to advance ecological networks beyond current understandings of sustainability, and produce new knowledge around food and climate justice.”

Both projects will offer research fellowship opportunities to postgraduate students...

Cooking Sections has been named to the Turner Prize's 2021 shortlist

2021-05-17T20:59:00-04:00

This year’s Shortlist for the 2021 edition of the Turner Prize has been announced, featuring a diverse array of artists from around the UK that includes former Wheelwright winner Daniel Fernández Pascual.

Pascual, who together with Alon Schwabe forms the collective Cooking Sections, was cited by the prize’s jury for the pair’s investigations into food systems that incorporate a wide range of mediums, evidenced by a recent sculptural exhibition at the Tate as well as the studio’s ongoing CLIMAVORE project, which turns an underwater dining table into a low-tide community eating area for residents of Scotland’s Isle of Skye.

Featured in the second issue of Archinect's print publication Ed Issue 2, The Architecture of Disaster, Cooking Sectionsdiscussed their project CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones

Cooking Selections has been in the vanguard of a multidisciplinary practice engaged in what the Tate calls “social change through art” that has shaped this year’s competition comprised entirely of...

London-based spatial practice Cooking Sections uses architecture, ecology, and geopolitics to reshape the public's relationship to food cycles

2021-04-07T15:11:00-04:00

Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual of the London-based studio Cooking Sections explore food systems through architecture, ecology, visual arts, and geopolitics.

Featured in the second issue of Archinect's print publication Ed Issue 2, The Architecture of Disaster, the duo discussed their project CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones. Using a lightweight installation to explore the changing nature of Loch Portree's waters in Scotland, the pair explains their goals to adapt to changing ecosystems through food and architecture. A project that is both a "performance project and a form of responsive eating—a model Schwabe and Fernández have developed as a possible method for adaptation to the precarious conditions of climate change."

Featured on Archinect: Cooking Sections Explains Their Efforts to Adapt to Changing Ecosystems Through Food and Architecture. Photograph by Ruth Clark.

Recently, Schwabe and Pascual debuted their latest project, Salmon: A Red Herring, at the Tate Britain. Part o...