MAKE/SENSE P.h.D candidate.
Research Assistant in IADE (Institute Arts and Design Education) and the CoCreate program.
FoodCultureLab - Project Manager.

Gabriela Aquije Zegarra (PE) is a landscape architect and design researcher. She holds an MSc. Design Research (2020) by the COOP program of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, and the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since then, she combines her background in landscape architecture and temporary art installations, to explore the multi-scale food systems between Europe and Latin America.  She’s designing ways of knowing anchored in collaborative practices: either by gardening or collective cooking, as well as collective performance and material experimentation.

Currently, she’s a candidate of the MAKE/SENSE Ph.D. program, a practice-based research in art and design, hosted by the Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW and the University of Art and Design in Linz. Her project “Culinary Re-turn: gastro-political ecologies of indigenous cooking landscapes in Peru'' explores cooking as an aesthetical, interspecies, and decolonial design practice.

www.gabrielaaz.com

2021 - ongoing

COCINAS ALTERINAS
Basel/Zurich, Switzerland
A collaborative project with the swiss-egyptian designer Mayar El Bakry, that explores food as a means to reflect and meditate on plural visions of design.
https://www.cocinasalterinas.com/ 

April 2021

FemPower Komplitz*innen - Symposium Opening Workshop
https://www.burg-halle.de/hochschule/einrichtungen/fempower/designsymposium/

Sep 2021

Goteborg City Trienalle 21 - State of Fluid Matters
https://fluidmatters.xyz/

Oct 2021

Oslo Architecutre Trienalle / Autum programme - Dining With Las Sambucas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drpbyHAHw2c&ab_channel=MayarEl-Bakry

2019 - 2021

BLOGGING [FROM] THE ROOTS
Berlin, Germany
A writing project in collaboration with Roots Radicals, a zero-waste and circular economy business. As a food-design researcher, I recount bottom-up initiatives and mindful actions towards Sustainable Food Systems.
https://rootsradicals.berlin

MIT-TAG
Dessau-Rosslau, Germany
Initiative that saves food from becoming waste in partnership with local Bio-markets and Dessau’s student community. We aim to reduce food-waste, while transforming these recovered ingredients into delicious meals that are shared in a Küfa (Küchen für alle) format.
https://www.instagram.com/mit_tag/

2021

FUTURE ARCHITECTURE CEx-2021
New Politics Session
Landscapes of Care Creative Exchange - European Architecture Program
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnANMuNNGxQ&list=PLASEP3F7V0ewbP67HIeej1zIvsqojww4P&index=36&ab_channel=FutureArchitecture

BAUHAUS STIFTUNG
Bauhaus Study Rooms “Infrastructure”
Speaker at “Conversations shape our tomorrow“, moderated by Michael Hohl, and together with Brigitte Hartwig

2020

BAUHAUS STIFTUNG
Bauhaus Study Rooms “Habitat”
- Speaker for the Co Habitation round table, moderated by Dr. Sria Chartejee
- Artist at the performatic cooking- workshop “Bauhaus, are you boiled enough?”, together with the artist Elias Kurt.

REMOTE PRACTICES
Architecture in Proximity Symposium – Online
National University of Singapore and The University of Sydney
Speaker at Session 2 / Design Research

CFC – CREATIVE FOOD CYCLES
International Symposium - Online
Speaker at Genius Session: Food Cycles Transversal Inputs
Leibniz Universität Hannover, Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and Università degli Studi di Genova

2021

COCINANDO EN ALTERIDAD
A non-linear essay on food transformation as (a) design (practice). By Cocinas Alterinas
Yue Mao, Naomi van Dijck, Radha Smith – NOMAOS (Eds.): Forest, Body, City, Flow. Landscapes of Care, 2021.
http://www.dpr-barcelona.com/index.php?/ongoing/forrest-body-city-flow-landscapes-of-care/

KITCHEN CARE
Architectural Review ISSUE 1475: CARE + W AWARDS 2021
https://www.architectural-review.com/magazines/ar-march-2021-on-care-w-awards

2020

QUARANTINED SOBREMESA
Schröder, J.; Sommariva, E.; Sposito, S. (Eds.): Creative Food Cycles - Book 1, 2020. S. 291-299.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15488/10134

2018

HOW TO: DISTURB THE PUBLIC
CCA - Centre Canadien d’Architecture
https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/67595/how-to-disturb-the-public