Invasive  Flavours
Yuyao Lin,  Yinan Yang, Seongeun Lee, Po-Yen Wu, Maximilien Johannes Leval-Dicancro
Critical encounter with the invasive.
02/2024



How can speculative eating practices reshape our multispecies ethics?


Invasive Flavours is a speculative design project exploring more-than-human entanglements in urban ecosystems.
By imagining a food stall that serves edible invasive plants, the project questions whether consumption can ever be an ethical response to ecological disruption. Rather than offering a solution, it stages a playful yet critical encounter with the politics of species, taste, and belonging.
Through rethinking culinary practices as acts of multispecies negotiation, Invasive Flavours invites reflection on coexistence, agency, and the future of urban ecological governance.

























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Rather than offering an endorsement of eradication through commodification, Invasive Flavours invites critical reflection on how urban multispecies futures might be negotiated. It calls for a more careful, less anthropocentric engagement with ecological management—one that confronts both the necessity of intervention and the ethical ambiguities it entails.

Ultimately, the project is less about proposing edible solutions than about asking: what kinds of relationships with nonhuman life are possible beyond control, consumption, or exclusion?








Eating is an act of relational entanglement. Speculative eating foregrounds the ethical tensions in choosing who is eaten, protected, or controlled. When eating becomes a space of reflection rather than consumption alone, it forces us to confront the political and ecological consequences of our place within multispecies food webs.