CONVIVIUM

Convivium: Food Systems at the Limit invites readers on a journey through the intricate networks that feed the world. Exploring how food production shapes landscapes, cities, and everyday life, the book uncovers the architecture of our global food systems. From greenhouses and fishing ports to farms and feed-crop fields, it shows how architecture and territory respond to the pressures of global food production and consumption.

Through a rich interplay of essays, photography, and research, Convivium highlights the environmental, political, and social challenges that define what and how we eat. It asks pressing questions that link ecology and culture, science and design: How do tomatoes connect to salmon? How do barns shape animal lives? And how does soy from Brazil end up feeding livestock in Europe?

Twelve thematic fields structure the book. Contributions on tomatoes, strawberries, salmon, tropical fruit, cows, bulls, octopuses, carp, shrimp, soy, grain, and worms reveal a complex web of trade routes, technologies, and labor relations. Different perspectives demonstrate how food production is linked to climate change, migration, and the transformation of rural and urban spaces. By following these stories, Convivium exposes the hidden infrastructures, economic systems, and spatial consequences of industrial agriculture and global supply chains.

This volume brings together architecture, science, politics, and economics to offer fresh perspectives on how we produce, move, and consume food. Richly illustrated, it combines analytical insight with visual storytelling. It invites readers to rethink the systems behind everyday meals—to see how food shapes the world we inhabit and to imagine more sustainable and equitable ways of living together.

With contributions by Grace Abou Jaoude, Betina Albrecht, Maximilian Atta, Andjelka Badnjar, Sepp Braun, Giulia Bruno, Jean-Marc Caimi, Niklas Fanelsa, Neal Haddaway, Nikolai Huber, Nicole Humiński, Diego Inglez de Souza, Natalie Judkowsky, Nikos Katsikis, Kees de Klein, Andres Lepik, María D. López Rodríguez, Jan Müller, Víctor Muñoz Sanz, Sofia Nannini, Raj Patel, Valentina Piccinni, Stefan Pielmeier, Olga Pindyuk, Réka Rozsnyói, Tiago Saraiva, Katrin Schneider, Johannes Schwartz, Gent Shehu, Rafael Sousa Santos, Carolyn Steel, Amelie Steffen, Sinan von Stietencron, Dániel Szalai, André Tavares, Mark Titley, Öykü Tok, and José Luis Vicente Vicente.

• Edited by Andjelka Badnjar
• Edited by Andres Lepik
• Contributions by Betina Albrecht
• Contributions by Grace Abou Jaoude
• Contributions by Maximilian Atta
• Contributions by Sepp Braun
• Contributions by Giulia Bruno
• Contributions by Jean-Marc Caimi
• Contributions by Niklas Fanelsa
• Contributions by Neal Haddaway
• Contributions by Diego Inglez de Souza
• Contributions by Natalie Judkowsky
• Contributions by Nikos Katsikis
• Contributions by María D. López Rodríguez
• Contributions by Jan Müller
• Contributions by Víctor Muñoz Sanz
• Contributions by Sofia Nannini
• Contributions by Raj Patel
• Contributions by Valentina Piccinni
• Contributions by Olga Pindyuk
• Contributions by Stefan Pielmeier
• Contributions by Réka Rozsnyói
• Contributions by Tiago Saraiva
• Contributions by Gent Shehu
• Contributions by Katrin Schneider
• Contributions by Dániel Szalai
• Contributions by Amelie Steffen
• Contributions by Carolyn Steel
• Contributions by Rafael Sousa Santos
• Contributions by André Tavares
• Contributions by Mark Titley
• Contributions by Öykü Tok
• Contributions by José Luis Vicente Vicente
• Contributions by Sinan von Stietencron