CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones
- Submitting institution
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Royal College of Art(The)
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Fernandez Pascual1
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Isle of Skye, Scotland
- Brief description of type
- Single output with contextual information
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2019
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- CLIMAVORE: On Tidal Zones created a unique public forum through a design object that is in and of itself performing, regenerating water ecologies while expanding the limits of citizen-led policymaking. The project’s originality stems from it bringing together different disciplines to discuss challenges facing the built environment and possible horizons or new cultural and environmental imaginaries to the transition to sustainable ways of living with the coast. Using architectural design as a platform - one demonstrating the benefits of the cultivation of filter-feeders like oysters, bivalves, or seaweeds - the waters and tidal zone of Skye are foregrounded as a site of intervention and advocacy.
The project creates a pathway for architectural knowledge as an entry point into complex political and ecological relationships, typically outside of its purview or domain. It posits that categories as broad as food production, recipes, human and nonhuman diets, climate change and toxicity can benefit from spatial and architectural perspectives and methodologies. Conversely, architecture benefits from being influenced by these categories. In addition to going beyond the limits of what might traditionally constitute an architectural project, it uses this interdisciplinarity to work within and against ways of coastal living that are already in place.
Since November 2018, twenty students at Portree High School have trained as CLIMAVORE Cooks. Through a series of scallop shucking and seaweed bread-baking workshops led by local chefs, foragers, scallop divers and Cooking Sections, students have learnt about the aqua-cultures along the tidal zones of Skye and food practices that can support them.
The project has led to collaboration with ten restaurants in Skye who have removed farmed salmon from their menus and introduced a CLIMAVORE inspired dish.
Since 2016, the project has been lectured on and published widely, leading to additional research projects and awards under the CLIMAVORE framework.
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- Non-English
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