In Episode 09, Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri talks about life as an Ecosystemic Designer, her thoughts on the future, creating hearths and telling stories through food, and carrying on the legacy of her father, John Tagiuri. Interview starts at 23:37.
Image Description: Lily kneels down next to three different bags with lime green gloves next to one of her shoes. She looks up as if talking with other people and points to a large crack in the ground filled with dark brown soil. She wears a jean jacket covering a blue shirt and jean pants, as well as black boots with a paisley design. On the top of her head is brown sunglasses. The image captures Lily 'mending cracks in the streets of Paris with soil, seeds, flowers and pollinator plants as a form of guerrilla gardening. Her intention is to create places of refuge in concrete jungles for pollinators like bees and butterflies'. Photo Credit: Liza Voloshin
Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri is an Ecosystemic Designer and Eco-futurist whose practice is aimed at public engagement, ecological equity, and joy. Her work addresses emerging climates and conditions of cities specifically pertaining to clean water, food sovereignty, fresh air, and green space. Through the construction of ecosystemic tools, material experimentation, collaborations, and installations, she responds to the ecological circumstances we are collectively contending with.
Her work has been shown internationally including at the Museum of the City of New York, MoMA PS1, NYC by Design, Extraperlo Madrid, and The London Design Biennale among others. Clients, partners, and collaborators include ATOPOS, Clearwater, Studio Lily Kwong, Pen America, A/D/O, Skinvolve, Invisible North, JW Marriott, Herban Cura, Esperanza Spalding, Field meridians/ MOLD Magazine, and Generation Conscious. She teaches at Parsons Paris, co-directs Le Gout summer art and design intensive and has taught at Pratt, Central Saint Martins MA Industrial Design, the Innovation Design Engineering Program at Royal College of Arts and Imperial College, and 1-5 in Korea.
We talk about:
How Lily makes ecosystemic tools
Seed gathering and food along coastlines
Lily being encouraged to make and build things at a young age
Making as a language
The role of people who identify as futurists and/or actively engaging with futurisms
Futurisms and power dynamics
Lily’s imagination and how she experiences her imagination
Collective imagination
Every day dreams (like making a chocolate cake for your grandma!)
Facilitating conversations and gatherings in different countries about ecosystems and eco-futurism through food, cooking and communal meals
How food can tell stories
Lily’s love for making ovens and creating hearths
Her collaborative project Solstice Kitchen
Foraging and eating different edible seaweeds from tidepools in Brittany, on the west coast of France
The rich life of tidepools: Sea stars, sea slugs, periwinkles, sea urchins, abalone, scallops, mussels, seaweed and more
West Coast and East Coast tidepools in the United States
Her father being a wild creative force and big dreamer, his recent passing and carrying on his legacy
One of the last experiences Lily had with her father
Joy in the small moments + SO much more!
RESOURCES:
Website: Lily Consuelo Saporta Tagiuri
Instagram: @lilysayhey
Meals: Eating La Seine in Paris, France, River Bed Picnic and Foraging the Tideline both in Athens, Greece, and Edible Geology in Berlin, Germany
Writings: Incase of Emergency: Seed Saving as a Strategy for Disaster and Food Forecast: SALT - Surviving Salinity
Projects: Solstice Kitchen + Eating Water: Food for Emerging Climates, Flood, Rising Water and Drought
Lily’s father, John Tagiuri’s Website: JTStudios
ADDITIONAL MENTIONS:
Manos Bazanis - agronomist and botanist (Foraging the Tideline collaborator)
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