The Living Environmental Arts and Futures (LEAF) Kitchen & Lab is a newly launched research space at Emily Carr University. LEAF supports interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, sustainable practices, creative research and experimentation with natural materials, food, and living systems. LEAF draws inspiration from domestic and community spaces such as kitchens and gardens, where relationships with the more than human world and natural cycles are central, and where knowledge is shared and experienced through actions of nourishment and care.

Our goal is to approach this work with a feminist, queer and decolonial lens, and to encourage creative work that intersects with intergenerational, cultural, and ecological knowledge to ferment, rise-up, grow, compost, regenerate, etc… 

LEAF Kitchen & Lab operates on unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish) and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. 

This work is supported in part by the Canada Research Chairs Program, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, and the Canada Foundation for Innovation.  

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