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Ecofoodway Architectures: Wisdom From The Past; Knowledge For The Future, Sara Khorshidifard
Ecofoodway Architectures: Wisdom From The Past; Knowledge For The Future, Sara Khorshidifard
Sara Khorshidifard
Intersections of food and the built environment make an imperative prospective for Environmental Design Research, the two areas between which design can support stronger allyships. This paper evaluates the past and present of this connection to initiate a synthesis on future possibilities of architecture-integrated ecological foodways. Food insecurity today is an acute global challenge, tightly intertwined with such other challenges as climate change, resource scarcity, and rapid urbanization. Project Drawdown 2017 reports the agriculture and food sectors posing largest negative bearings on climate change. Unsustainable practices in food production, distribution, waste, diet, and holistic grazing are responsible for around 8% of …