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Building Commons

Daniel Fernandez Pascual and Alon Schwabe, Royal College of Art

Bivalve Murals. Cooking Sections, 2024. Photo Jordan Young. Courtesy: The CLIMAVORE Station Skye and Raasay

Building Commons is a process of developing a material prototype that transforms waste seashells from restaurants into a building material without cement or resin.

Rooted in years of work at the CLIMAVORE Station in Skye and Raasay reimagining transitions from intensive aquaculture, the project weaves material innovation with oral histories and land struggles through hands-on workshops and multigenerational, multispecies exchanges.

The goal is to create opportunities for the material to support common good funds and strengthen coastal ecologies.

Bivalve Murals. Cooking Sections, 2024. Photo Jordan Young. Courtesy: The CLIMAVORE Station Skye and Raasay

Cooking Sections

Cooking Sections examines the systems that shape the planet through food, tracing the spatial, ecological, and political legacies of extractivism. Founded in London in 2013 by Daniel Fernández Pascual