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Daniels Faculty

MVS Proseminar Artist talk by Cooking Sections

John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design

Winter 2025 Public Program

A dynamic series of lectures, book talks, discussions and a symposium, this semester’s program highlights the work of leading global thinkers and practitioners who are shaping the future of our built and natural environments.

<a href="https://www.cooking-sections.com/" title="https://www.cooking-sections.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Cooking Sections</a> examines the systems that organise the world through food. Using site-responsive installation, performance and video, they explore the overlapping boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics. Established in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe, their practice uses food as a lens and a tool to trace landscapes in transformation, the spatial and metabolic legacies of extractivism. They have worked on multiple iterations of the long-term site-responsive <a href="http://climavore.org/" title="http://climavore.org/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">CLIMAVORE</a> project since 2015, exploring how to eat as humans change climates and how to metabolise climate breakdown. In 2016 they opened <a href="http://empireremains.net/" title="http://empireremains.net/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The Empire Remains Shop</a>. Their work has been exhibited at Tate Britain, Serpentine Galleries, SALT, Bonniers Konsthall, Lafayette Anticipations, Grand Union, Carnegie Museum of Art, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Atlas Arts, HKW, SPACES, Storefront for Art and Architecture; the Taipei Biennial, 58th Venice Biennale, Istanbul Biennial, Cleveland Triennial, BAS9, Shanghai Biennial, Los Angeles Public Art Triennial, Sharjah Architecture Triennial, Sharjah Art Biennial, Performa17, Manifesta12, and New Orleans Triennial among others. They have been residents at Headlands Center for the Arts, California; Fogo Island Arts; and The Politics of Food at Delfina Foundation, London. They were guest professors at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich in 2020-21. They are Readers in Architecture and Spatial Practice at the Royal College of Art, London; Principal Investigators at CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA and Fellows at the <a href="https://cifar.ca/research-programs/future-flourishing/#topskipToContent" title="https://cifar.ca/research-programs/future-flourishing/#topskipToContent" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Canadian Institute for Advanced Research</a>. Cooking Sections were nominated for the Turner Prize in 2021. They were awarded the Special Prize at the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize and were nominated for the <a href="https://www.visibleproject.org/blog/project/climavore-on-tidal-zones/" title="https://www.visibleproject.org/blog/project/climavore-on-tidal-zones/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Visible Award</a> for socially-engaged practices. Daniel is the recipient of the <a href="https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/06/daniel-fernandez-pascual-wins-harvard-graduate-school-of-designs-2020-wheelwright-prize/" title="https://www.gsd.harvard.edu/2020/06/daniel-fernandez-pascual-wins-harvard-graduate-school-of-designs-2020-wheelwright-prize/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">2020 Harvard GSD Wheelwright Prize</a> for Being Shellfish. They have published 3 <a href="https://www.cooking-sections.com/books" title="https://www.cooking-sections.com/books" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">books</a>: The Empire Remains Shop (2018), Salmon: A Red Herring (2020), and Offsetted (2022)

Agenda

Light food and soft drinks will be served.

Public Reception

Lecture and Discussion

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