New Spatial Realities - Food Landscapes

Featuring
Migrant's Bureau

During strikes and protests, there is always food being served and exchanged. Complex spaces of sharing food brings people together and forms the foundation of networks within families and communities.

Spaces which stock or provide culturally specific food can become ‘home’ for migrant and disenfranchised communities, reflecting complexities of the experiences of communities where the food comes from. Eg, The Gujarati community who have migrated to the UK from East Africa, which has created its own food culture.

Whose legacies are within our food?
How can we build more sustainable spatial environments and experiences centered around food?
What are the memories and dreams of food that haunt and excite us?

Speakers: 
Alisha Morenike Fisher, MB (Co-Hosting)
Ishwari Bhalerao, MB (Co-Hosting)
Hanifah Sogbanmu, MB (Co-Hosting)
Fozia Ismail, Arawelo Eats
Genevieve Shaun, PhD researcher in Architectural Space & Computation, The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL.

Join Migrant's Bureau in an online event exploring the food landscapes of Bristol's neighbourhoods on 17th of June 12:30-1:30pm BST on Zoom.

Langar, the food served at Gurudwaras, is served free to people without discriminating against anyone based on religion, caste, gender, economic status or ethnicity. Mosques serve food for iftar. Voluntary and Community sector organisations, mutual aid groups, Campaign groups organise around food.

Allotments, community gardens, farms, are central spaces of organising for land, environmental and social justice. How can food tell stories of Bristol Neighbourhoods?

MB will be mapping different sites and neighbourhoods in Bristol and to tell visual and sonic stories of political/social/religious organising, especially among migrant and disenfranchised communities, during the pandemic and before, through food.

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Migrant's Bureau

Migrant's Bureau is a social design and urbanism practice working for and with disenfranchised and migrant communities in the UK. Their work explores how social circumstances, geography and culture can impact people's experiences of the urban environments both locally and globally.

Ishwari Bhalerao

Ishwari is an Arts and Community Manager within Migrant's Bureau, a multi-disciplinary social design & urbanism practice facilitating sustainable design interventions, research, podcasts and community workshops for both trans-local and global disenfranchised & migrant communities.
Ishwari’s artistic practice currently explores, breaks down and expands violent histories embodied within landscapes and language, using performance, text, moving image and analogue photo development processes. She is an artist and is the co-founder of Kneed, a resource for artists and cultural workers learning how to work collectively, sustainably and with accountability.

Alisha Morenike Fisher

Environmental design practitioner & researcher, Alisha is also co-founder + co-director of Migrant’s Bureau, a multi-disciplinary social design and urbanism practice facilitating sustainable design interventions, research, podcasts and community workshops for both trans-local and global disenfranchised & migrant communities. She is engaged in work focusing on landscape and environmental management, African architecture and decoloniality of space.

Hanifah Sogbanmu

Hanifah works as our Architecture + Community Collaborator within Migrant's Bureau. With a strong passion for community, culture, art, design and phenomenology of spaces, Hanifah is interested in exploring how best to facilitate community-focused projects, cultural education and public art projects. As an Artist with a background in Architecture and Planning, she combines her knowledge of the built environment and creative practices to engage, learn and connect with people and places.

https://www.migrantsbureau.com/

Fozia Ismail

Fozia is a scholar, cook and founder of Arawelo Eats, a platform for exploring politics, identity and colonialism through East African food. She has worked with a range of cultural institutions on exploring food and empire including London School of Economics, Museum of London, Serpentine Gallery, Tate Modern, National Trust, Watershed and Arnolfini. Her work has been published by Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery and Vittles. She has been featured on Observer Food Magazine, BBC Radio 4 Food Programme, Oxford Symposium on Food &; Cookery Ox Tales podcast, Food 52, London Eater, Vice Munchies, Vittles & Bristol 24/7. She is a resident of Pervasive Media Studio at the Watershed and co-founder of Dhaqan Collective, a Somali feminist art collective based in Bristol.

https://www.araweloeats.com/

Genevieve Shaun

Her research interest lies in the intersection of urban spatial analytics, spatial data, mobility, applications of network science and architectural design. Currently heading the Complexity Science team at Centre for Liveable Cities (in Singapore), she is interested to study how network modelling and spatial data analysis can be used as a scientific method to inform urban planning strategies and policies. Her experience working as a Consultant at Space Syntax London, as well as her PhD and teaching in Architectural Space & Computation (Bartlett, UCL) has played a significant role in building her analytical thinking.  Prior to this, Genevieve was trained as an Architect and having gained professional experience in several international renowned architectural offices in Tokyo (Kengo Kuma) and Hong Kong (Atkins), she has also build up a wide portfolio of architectural and masterplanning projects.

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