Tectónicas culinarias: Tres informes especulativos para un futuro sistema alimentario

Abstract

Every time we eat, often without realizing it, we connect our palate to a multitude of distant places: supermarkets, greenhouses, farms, warehouses, logistical networks, cold chains, landfills... These unremarkable architectures rarely grace the polished pages of fashionable architecture magazines; yet, their impact on our way of life far exceeds that of any ostentatious building signed by the starchitect of the moment. Collectively, they form a vast distributed apparatus that enables the reassembly of the Earth’s crust into the building blocks of human life. This metabolic architecture, spanning multiple scales and conditions, remains largely overlooked by our discipline despite its vital importance. However, in a world where the molecular becomes tectonic, and every bite reverberates across the planet, the urgency to redesign it with its ecosystemic implications in mind has never been greater.