2023-2024
2023-2024
The work presented here was undertaken during the studio founder's tenure at CAF×.
The exhibition was structured in three parts: five short films, each by a different architect-filmmaker pairing, tracing a distinct layer of the food system from Foundation to Digestion; a Total Recipe Book, in which ten typical Spanish dishes were used to trace the full infrastructural chain behind a meal, illustrated by photographer Pedro Pegenaute; and a public programme of talks, screenings, and guided tours. Its visual identity was designed by Naranjo-Etxeberria.
FOODSCAPES' argument was that the architecture of food — the supermarkets, dark stores, greenhouses, cold chains, logistics networks, and wastelands that stand behind every meal — remains largely invisible, despite shaping how cities and landscapes are built. The exhibition argued for making that architecture visible on its own terms: through the films' focus on distinct layers of the food system, and through the total recipe's method of tracing a single, familiar dish back through the full infrastructural chain that produces it.
Adapting the exhibition to Halmtorvet 27 was a close collaboration with Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa, who worked on site through the process. CAF× selected which material from the original Venice presentation to bring to Copenhagen, and designed and produced the exhibition's full set of visual material, digital and physical, personally directed by the studio founder, based on Naranjo-Etxeberria's original identity. The exhibition's structure — plinths and display surfaces built from cardboard donated by the food shops of Kødbyen, the meatpacking district in which Halmtorvet sits — gave the show a material logic drawn from its immediate surroundings, alongside the building's own flexible display panels, repurposed from its suspended ceiling tiles as part of Pihlmann Architects and Archival Studies' 2021 transformation of Halmtorvet 27. CAF× also facilitated a workshop with the Future Foodscapes Research Unit and a group of local experts to produce a piece of new material specific to Copenhagen: a Total Recipe for the hot dog, tracing the dish's bread, sausage, and condiments back through their own infrastructural chain in a desktop documentary, Synergetic Hotdog, screened in the Halmtorvet window.
FOODSCAPES' public programme paired each film with a live session in Kødbyen. Foundation brought together Anna Sofie Hvid of Rural Agency, Nanna Thomsen of Andelsgaarde, and Søren Ejlersen, founder of Fælleshaven and Aarstiderne, in a conversation on regenerative agriculture and soil, moderated by Marie Sainabou Jeng of Madland. Production convened Lasse Antoni Carlsen of Bygaard, Christer Bredgaard of Il Buco, and Kristine Fisker of INVI to discuss food production and the city, moderated by Mia Maja Hansson of Kitchen Collective. Distribution took the form of a guided tour of Kødbyen's history as a meatpacking district, led by museum curator Jakob Ingemann Parby. Consumption paired a communal dinner and food quiz with a talk by Tina Unger, director of Sct. Hans Have, on the Garden City Movement. A further evening at Cinematek brought Gehl's Olivia Flynn to speak on the food systems of the future. Digestion closed the programme with Phil Ayres of the Royal Danish Academy, sound artist Jacob Kirkegaard, and Anne Lerche of BioSolution discussing food waste and urban metabolism, moderated by Enlai Hooi of Schmidt Hammer Lassen, alongside a live compost installation and a closing sound work by Kirkegaard. The studio founder presented one of these sessions herself, in addition to coordinating the programme as a whole. The exhibition's website extended the physical show into a parallel weekly rhythm, publishing a new film online in step with the same film's screening and discussion in Kødbyen.
CAF× also handled the marketing and audience outreach for the exhibition and its public programme, alongside communications more broadly — press, newsletter, and social media — and the editorial curation of the CAF× Journal's FOODSCAPES collection.
FOODSCAPES was initially commissioned by the Government of Spain through the Directorate General for Urban Agenda and Architecture of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, Acción Cultural Española (AC/E), and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID), with the support of Fundación Arquia, TBA21, and the European Climate Foundation. Its Danish presentation was supported by Realdania, the Municipality of Copenhagen, the European platform LINA (supported by Creative Europe), and the Spanish Embassy.
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Team:
Valeria Granillo, Eduardo Castillo-Vinuesa, Manuel Ocaña, the team behind the Spanish Pavilion during the 18th International Venice Architecture Biennale, Josephine Michau, Søren Nørkjær Bang, Ida Willadsen Bang Kjeldsen, Alexandra Wedderkopp Emelianov, Katrine Kretzschmar Nielsen.
With the contribution of:
GRANDEZA STUDIO and Locument, Marina Otero Verzier and Manuel Correa, Gerard Ortín Castellví and Pol Esteve Castelló, MAIO and Agnes Essonti Luque, Elii and María Jerez, Future Foodscapes Research Unit.
With the participation of:
Anna Sofie Hvid, Nanna Thomsen, Søren Ejlersen, Marie Sainabou Jeng, Nikolaj Vedde, Lasse Antoni Carlsen, Christer Bredgaard, Kristine Fisker, Mia Maja Hansson, Phil Ayres, Jacob Kirkegaard, Anne Lerche, Enlai Hooi, Jakob Ingemann Parby, Olivia Flynn, Tina Unger, Alexander Holm.