What oysters can teach about life in the climate crisis

Daniel Fernández Pascual, co-lead of CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art, presented research on intertidal architectures during his Wheelright Prize Lecture in March. Speaking at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the title of Daniel's talk, “Being Shellfish: Architectures of intertidal cohabitation,” reflected the central place of oysters, mussels, scallops and other bivalves within his vision for the tidal commons. “Oysters filter the sea,” he said, “and in so doing their shells record histories of coastal habitation as material witnesses of the Anthropocene.”