Eating My Feelings : creating belonging and connections through food and its spaces
department or school: Applied Science, Faculty of
department or school: Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCV
rights copyright: Maria Emilia Brasdefer
creator: Brasdefer, Maria Emilia
issued: 2022-01-20T15:44:39Z
issued: 2021-12-23
description: Food invites you in, reminisces about times past. It embraces your senses in a nostalgic adventure. It follows immigration, feeding cultures and families. Food creates home, belonging. As humans, we have an innate desire to belong. However, current trends of alienation make it ever more difficult to connect to one another and to the earth, and our food culture influences several of these trends. We have lost a lot of the connection to the land on which we live. Our cities become spaces for exclusion and xenophobia rather than diversity. Even our bodies, the way we experience space, have been largely diminished to only two of our senses: vision and hearing. Food has an amazing ability to connect us, but in dominant Western culture, the processes of making and enjoying food tend to be relatively insular or include clear divisions between ‘served’ and ‘server’ and between social classes, and separate us from the land and beings that make up that food. Still, our body and our senses ask us to reach out, and food is a way in which we create connections. This project hopes to create a space for cooking and eating in which we can reconnect with our senses, with each other, and with the land that feeds us.
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note: Emilia Brasdefereating my feelingscreating belonging and connections through food and its spacesEating My Feelingscreating belonging and connections through food and its spacesMaria Emilia BrasdeferBachelor of Arts, The University of British Columbia, 2018 Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture in the Faculty of Graduate StudiesSchool of Architecture and Landscape ArchitectureArchitecture ProgramCommittee:Dr. Tijana Vujosevic (Chair)John BassAsher deGroot Holly SchmidtSara Stevens (GP1 instructor)The University of British Columbia© Maria Emilia Brasdefer, December 2021Food invites you in, reminisces about times past. It embraces your senses in a nostalgic adventure. It follows immigration, feeding cultures and families. Food creates home, belonging.As humans, we have an innate desire to belong. However, current trends of alienation make it ever more difficult to connect to one another and to the earth, and our food culture influences several of these trends. We have lost a lot of the connection to the land on which we live. Our cities become spaces for exclusion and xenophobia rather than diversity. Even our bodies, the way we experience space, have been largely diminished to only two of our senses: vision and hearing. Food has an amazing ability to connect us, but in dominant Western culture, the processes of making and enjoying food tend to be relatively insular or include clear divisions between ‘served’ and ‘server’ and between social classes, and separate us from the land and beings that make up that food. Still, our body and our senses ask us to reach out, and food is a way in which we create connections. This project hopes to create a space for cooking and eating in which we can reconnect with our senses, with each other, and with the land that feeds us. fig. 1: food connectionsiiiabstractA new, public space for the preparation and enjoyment of food that slows us down and enhances our intimate sensory con…
has type: Graduating Project
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0406321
language: eng
peer review status: Unreviewed
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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scholar level: Graduate
is part of: University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/80690