Can arts-based research and practice unravel the systems of thinking, knowing and creating that tie us into industrial livestock production? Collaborative creative practice and artistic enquiry can be fruitful ways of exploring the uncommon ground between disciplines and between modes of work to build a critique of industrial animal agriculture. Embedded as a part of research practice, public campaigns, policy co-creation, and experimentation, arts can reveal different ways of relating and help to configure alternative food systems.

This workshop explores arts as a tool for collective re-learning, for reclaiming the commons, and for dismantling colonial structures of knowledge and food production, with Cooking Sections artist duo Alon Schwabe and Dr Daniel Fernández Pascual (School of Architecture, Royal College of Art), and Maya Marshak (Bio-economy Research, University of Cape Town). Chaired by Dr Andrew Bennie Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems (Institute of Economic Justice, South Africa).