CLIMAVORE Agora
How should we feed ourselves in accordance with the new seasons of climate change? What new practices do we need? What kind of food industry is required?
Through food – using it as a lens that allows us to observe in detail the transformation of landscapes – and the exploration of the blurred boundaries between art, architecture, ecology and geopolitics, the Cooking Sections collective, founded in London in 2013, investigates the systems that serve to organise our world.
Cooking Sections arrives at La Casa Encendida to curate Ágora Climávora, a programme that confronts the problems posed by intensive agricultural systems and large-scale distribution networks from the Iberian Peninsula to the European Union and proposes alternative practices that avoid or limit the processes of water pollution, dependence on chemicals in farming and the dumping of waste from macro-farms. The programme’s final goal is to understand these processes and propose models for the future: new rural economies and new ways of relating to the territory and the landscape.
The initiative is also about contributing to rethinking the Mediterranean as a common space and connecting similar realities in different parts of Europe and the world; in short, understanding and reorienting our existence.
Within the framework of the Spanish Presidency of the EU Council during the second half of 2023, Ágora Climávora is part of the broad cultural programme of dissemination and reflection that brings citizens closer to the values, projects and current challenges of the European Union.
