CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art

Founded by  Cooking Sections as a partnership between Community Jameel and CLIMAVORE developed at the Royal College of Art (RCA), CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA reimagines foodways for drylands and wetlands in the climate crisis.

Based in the RCA School of Architecture, CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA uses architectural and artistic investigative tools, education and action to advance ecological networks beyond current understandings of sustainability, and produce new knowledge around food and climate justice. The new partnership aims to reimagine how we eat as human activity changes the climate by developing new methodologies and enhancing policies around the globe.

CLIMAVORE x Jameel at RCA is a three-year partnership which will focus on two distinct and related projects, working in close proximity with its case study sites across Türkiye, France and Italy through key local collaborators. Additionally, the partnership will offer funding for postgraduate research fellowships to develop site-specific case studies with cultural and civic organisations around the globe. CLIMAVORE x Jameel’s two projects explore how nature-centred food systems can be developed with communities in drylands and wetlands that are subject to particular seasonal stresses, exacerbated by human activity over centuries.