Creating the Roots for Multicultural Hybrid Food Spaces

Creating the Roots for Multicultural Hybrid Food Spaces involves three areas of exploration – food, culture, and architecture. With the increase of immigration and globalization, the paper questions the current model of farms to the table for its lack of availability and long-distance imports of culturally appropriate foods for increasingly multicultural urban environments. This thesis will test the idea of creating hybrid spaces of ‘farm’, ‘market’ and ‘eating space’ within the ethnically diverse city to attract Torontonians into the facility as to raise awareness about the importance of better agency and transparency over food, access to fresh local produce, increased food literacy and food sovereignty that is gained through a vibrant social and food space. By creating this vital space that can be replicated in any part of Toronto through modular architecture, all neighbourhoods have the potential to nourish their communities with ethnically appropriate foods that are grown, harvested and prepared locally.