00:00 – Introduction
02:26 – Presentation
The relationship between food security and infrastructures has sculpted urban networks and mobilised rural hinterlands. Yet in the face of climatic uncertainty these once stable systems are under threat.
Heavy rainfall and recurrent flooding in the UK alone is already having a dramatic impact on crop yields. However, whilst the UK’s wealth is enough to counterbalance local loss through the importation from neighbouring countries, the rising frequency and intensity of dramatic weather as a result of climate change will pose an increasing threat to global food security for even the most prosperous and privileged regions. Droughts, wildfires, storms, sea level rise, the acidification of the oceans, all have begun to radically endanger the fragile ecologies on which our globalized system of food production depends. In order to create a sustainable and secure future, we will need to rethink our agricultural systems and the buildings, infrastructures, and practices which compose them to suit a more violent and unstable climate.
The event will aim to interrogate past and current modes of food provision and its intrinsic relationship to the evolution of the climate, challenging architecture’s intrinsic relation to the global cultivation and provision of food.
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