Transspeciess Kitchen is constructed out of recycled pieces of marble discharged by the stone extraction industry. It is carved with forms that are engineered to facilitate the collection, fermentation, and ingestion of leaves, earth, fungi, and other living components from the ecosystems close to the kitchen. Events activating the kitchen are curated as collective digestions where more-than-human forms of life collaborate to co-produce, negotiate coexistence, and experience how to sense each other. Lagoonphagia is an opportunity to both experience and claim the fact that bodies are not zipped up entities, but are instead ecological compositions. Considering how humans are dependent on ecosystems, eating the Lagoon is the process of eating oneself as much as it is eating others. These performances convene experts of the Lagoon’s ecologies and edibilities alongside architectural thinkers to acknowledge the implications and potentials of operating through transspecies alliances in the paradigm of ecology.
Participants
ANDRÉS JAQUE / OFFICE FOR POLITICAL INNOVATION NEW YORK, USA; MADRID, SPAIN Andrés Jaque, Madrid, Spain 1971. Lives and works in New York, USA, and Madrid, Spain.
NATALIE SCHRAUWEN, Antwerp, Belgium, 1980. Lives and works in Antwerp, Belgium.
Authorial Collaborators
18 Piés de Altura
Technical Collaborators
Office for Political Innovation: Roberto González García, Gema Marín, Alejandra Rebollo
Team
Jacopo Galli and Elisa Vendemini (Università Iuav di Venezia), Lorenzo Barbasetti di Prun (Prometeus Openn Food Lab), Valentino Marini (Department of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Università di Bologna), Christoph Hesse Architects, and students from Università Iuav di Venezia.
Supporters
Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
