Ecologies of Consumption: Food, Materials & Climate

Our ways of living are endangered and on the verge of catastrophic change. Though we may experience the effects of climate change at a macro level, changes are rhizomatic, cascading through scales and networks interconnected by materials and energies, biologies and chemistries, economies and cultures; each of these connections affecting the very ingredients of our everyday life in diverse and unpredictable ways. No other system of matter and exchange offers such a thorough lens through which to examine these effects as does our contemporary food systems. This lecture presents a perspective on how degrees of interconnectivity and the precarity of decision-making for food, materials and construction can impact the future of built environments.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.AIA.Inter.20.7

Volume Editors
Phoebe Crisman & Kyle Konis

ISBN
978-1-944214-32-6