Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual, Alon Schwabe)
– Casa Wabi 2019
Community Project
Climavore: Coastal Threads – Habitantes de la costa
Our stay at Casa Wabi helped us reflect on those interconnections across the Pacific shores. Through the conversations we exchanged with local fishermen, we understood how we need to question our bodies and their role in today’s significant environmental degradation of marine systems. It was helpful to know how human bodies are entangled with coastal cycles. In order to comprehend how coastal lagoons are dying if more chemicals from agricultural fields keep running into them, how local fishermen are struggling to live off their small scale fishing due to humans consuming industrially caught or farmed fish, and how rain patterns are heavily shifting. This is not an isolated case in Oaxaca; it is just another example of the world we inhabit. But by staying day after day along the side of a wall that faces the ocean, one manages to compare and reflect on those cyclical processes and circular translocation of particles, substances, and matter, which urge you to feel responsible for taking some action.
Casa Wabi can be a catalyst to rethink responsible inhabitation along the shores of the Pacific. We hope the CLIMAVORE framework can play a role in supporting local fishermen and prioritize their good practices above other industrial sources as a way to care for the local natural environment that is threatened daily by man-induced environmental transformations.
Our stay at Casa Wabi helped us reflect on those interconnections across the Pacific shores. Through the conversations we exchanged with local fishermen, we understood how we need to question our bodies and their role in today’s significant environmental degradation of marine systems. It was helpful to know how human bodies are entangled with coastal cycles. In order to comprehend how coastal lagoons are dying if more chemicals from agricultural fields keep running into them, how local fishermen are struggling to live off their small scale fishing due to humans consuming industrially caught or farmed fish, and how rain patterns are heavily shifting. This is not an isolated case in Oaxaca; it is just another example of the world we inhabit. But by staying day after day along the side of a wall that faces the ocean, one manages to compare and reflect on those cyclical processes and circular translocation of particles, substances, and matter, which urge you to feel responsible for taking some action.
Casa Wabi can be a catalyst to rethink responsible inhabitation along the shores of the Pacific. We hope the CLIMAVORE framework can play a role in supporting local fishermen and prioritize their good practices above other industrial sources as a way to care for the local natural environment that is threatened daily by man-induced environmental transformations.
