Launching CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art to reimagine how we eat

Expanding on the work of CLIMAVORE on food systems in the climate crisis, CLIMAVORE x Jameel at the Royal College of Art (RCA) is a joint research initiative reimagining foodways for drylands and wetlands by Community Jameel and Turner Prize nominees Cooking Sections (Alon Schwabe and Daniel Fernández Pascual) in partnership with the RCA, the world’s number one art and design university.

Based in the RCA’s 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.

Launched on 28 March 2023 at the RCA's Rausing Building in London, 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.