Queer Ecologies Melbourne Design Week 2021

CONCEPT by AILA cultivate - food design by Fluff Corp. Part of Melbourne Design Week 2021.

Sat 27 Mar 12:00 pm at Volker Haug Studio, Brunswick East.

A long table lunch exploring the generative potential of queering in and around the discipline of landscape architecture. How can we harness queering as mode of critique to break from normative paradigms and imagine alternative and expanded modes of landscape practice?

Guests, including Pip Wallis, Alistair Kirkpatrick, Brent Greene, Darius Le, Sarah Hicks and Felipe Coral, discuss the method of queering and how it applies across the built environment in considering more-than-human urbanism, ‘failed’ ecologies and systems thinking.

We designed the meal to use no plastic and no tableware, people ate a shared menu of local ingredients, cooked in paperbark and served on a table covered with lotus and banana leaves. This was a zero waste meal and at its conclusion the whole table was composted.

All photos by Jen Lynch.