Yuyao Lin, Yinan Yang, Seongeun Lee, Po-Yen Wu, Maximilien Johannes Leval-Dicancro
Grand Challenge, RCA, 2024
02/2024
By imagining a food stall that serves edible invasive plants, the project questions whether consumption can ever be an ethical response to ecological disruption. Rather than offering a solution, it stages a playful yet critical encounter with the politics of species, taste, and belonging.
Through rethinking culinary practices as acts of multispecies negotiation, Invasive Flavours invites reflection on coexistence, agency, and the future of urban ecological governance.
Rather than offering an endorsement of eradication through commodification, Invasive Flavours invites critical reflection on how urban multispecies futures might be negotiated. It calls for a more careful, less anthropocentric engagement with ecological management—one that confronts both the necessity of intervention and the ethical ambiguities it entails.
Ultimately, the project is less about proposing edible solutions than about asking: what kinds of relationships with nonhuman life are possible beyond control, consumption, or exclusion?