Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse
Image courtesy of Leyuan Li
Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse is a design experiment that explores the emerging trend of domestic and urban farming in the Greater Bay Area, speculating on the tools and spaces of food production in the development of a sustainable, collective community. Together with a series of photographs, architectural drawings, interview materials, and spatial installations, the project investigates a new spatial typology that intersects the functions of a greenhouse, a kitchen, and a dining room. By facilitating the interplay between farming and preparing food, between delivering and consuming food, and between caring and sharing food, the design project suggests new spatial possibilities of domestic and urban farming that compile agricultural and social activities in the community, exploring the qualities and attitudes of food production towards spatial, territorial, social, and political care.
Your Kitchen Is Your Dining Room Is Your Greenhouse is a design experiment that explores the emerging trend of domestic and urban farming in the Greater Bay Area, speculating on the tools and spaces of food production in the development of a sustainable, collective community. Together with a series of photographs, architectural drawings, interview materials, and spatial installations, the project investigates a new spatial typology that intersects the functions of a greenhouse, a kitchen, and a dining room. By facilitating the interplay between farming and preparing food, between delivering and consuming food, and between caring and sharing food, the design project suggests new spatial possibilities of domestic and urban farming that compile agricultural and social activities in the community, exploring the qualities and attitudes of food production towards spatial, territorial, social, and political care.
- 2022
- Grantee: Leyuan Li
Leyuan Li is a Chinese architect, educator, and researcher whose professional and academic work focuses on the intersection of interior and urban realms in the articulation of underrepresented spaces, situations, and societies. He has practiced architecture internationally at OMA, SOM, and Affordable Housing Lab. He is the founder of Office for Roundtable, a collaborative practice that explores architectural and interior types in relation to environmental and social issues. Recent research and built work has been featured in Art and Design Magazine, Frame Magazine, PLAT, and New York Review of Architecture, among others.
Li is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor of Architecture with an Emphasis on Issues of Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion at the University of Colorado Denver. His academic work has been exhibited at the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, OCAT Museum in Shanghai, Citygroup Gallery in New York City, and the 9th Bi-City Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism in Shenzhen.