Resumen de Edible, or the Architecture of Metabolism

Lydia Kallipoliti, Areti Markopoulou

• How can architecture produce food, and be eaten away? How can we define the architecture of metabolism? This paper seeks to reveal how architecture constructs, distributes, and leverages power via material upcycling, interspecies alliances, biopolitics and excremental processes. It maps and redraws the affinities of the built environment as a product of many forces, translated in the tensions between products and by-products, production, and consumption and, finally, creation and decomposition.