On Seed Sovereignty in Mexico / Adriana David

Architecture Off-Centre

How often do we really think about where our food comes from? I don’t mean the supermarket or the vegetable vendor where we buy it from but the place where it is grown or the kind of seeds that are sown and everything that concerns the cycle of crops and the resources that are involved in the production of food. It is not until someone explicitly forces us to think about the origin of our food that we give it any attention.

Adriana David’s work lies at the intersection of architecture and the natural world. Her recent projects include LIMBO urban seedbanks, a choreography for a more-than human world, a performance dinner on the impact of today’s impact of agribusiness on food and a set of tools to achieve Harvard’s Food Sovereignty for the future.

Adriana’s work: www.doma.mx Report of her study supported by the Mellon Grant at Harvard: https://mellonurbanism.harvard.edu/food-sovereignty-or-how-lan-interdependent-food-system-future-case-milpitas-supply-chamexico-city