Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual & Alon Schwabe) is a London-based duo of spatial practitioners whose work interrogates the infrastructures, systems, and power relations that organize the world through food. Founded in 2013, their practice operates at the intersections of architecture, visual arts, ecology, and geopolitics, using site-specific research to propose alternative modes of inhabiting and caring for environments. Their long-term initiative CLIMAVORE examines how diets can adapt to the climate crisis, engaging directly with communities, policy makers, and cultural institutions to develop regenerative food practices. Cooking Sections has exhibited widely at venues including Tate Britain, the Serpentine Galleries, SALT Istanbul, Storefront for Art and Architecture in New York, and numerous biennials. Their work has been recognized for combining critical inquiry with poetic forms of storytelling and for reimagining food as a tool for ecological and political transformation.

They will be in conversation with Maite Borjbad, architecture writer and curator, and former curator at the Art Institute of Chicago. Borjbad’s research and curatorial projects explore the intersections of architecture, politics, and contemporary visual culture, focusing on how built environments mediate processes of social, cultural, and ecological change. Through exhibitions, publications, and public programs, she has contributed to advancing critical dialogues around architecture’s role in shaping collective futures. Bringing together Cooking Sections’ experimental, research-based practice and Borjbad’s curatorial perspective, the conversation will illuminate how food becomes a medium to examine and reimagine the overlapping boundaries of art, architecture, ecology, and geopolitics.