October 23
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10.00
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October 26
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16.00
The Activation
Join artist Andrew Merritt, collaborator Loubie Rusch, and participants from the Lynedoch Valley for a conversation exploring recipes for biocultural repair. Visitors will be invited to sample flavours and discuss the project’s evolving map and foods of regeneration – asking questions such as “What food does the landscape need?” and “How can shared acts of making and eating restore broken relationships between people and place?”
This interactive event is part of the wider exhibition throughout Design Week (23 to the 26 October) at Church House that is free and open to the public.
Developed in collaboration with Loubie Rusch of the Sustainability Institute in Lynedoch, the installation emerges from a field activation in the Lynedoch Valley where local participants traced the changing relationship between people, place, and food across time. Through maps, tasting samples, and visual artefacts, the work reveals how colonial agriculture, climate pressures, and social inequalities have reshaped the valley’s ecological identity – and invites the public to consider what it means to cook, eat, and design for landscape healing.
The exhibition is supported by the British Council, Design Week South Africa, and the Centre of Excellence in Food Security.
Where: Church House, 1 Queen Victoria St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town
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When: Thursday 23 October at 10:00 – Sunday 26 October at 16:00
Bookings: Open to all to attend. RSVP to the free interactive session exploring recipes for ecological repair on Sunday, 26 of October.
