Events
Carolyn has given talks and seminars on her concept of sitopia in a wide variety of contexts all over the world.
From her Food and the City lecture series at the School of Architecture at Cambridge University (2002 to 2012) to her 2009 TED talk and beyond, she has explored the broadest possible range of insights and implications of thinking through food with national and civic governments, national and international institutions and across a broad range of fields within academia, industry and the arts.
Previous engagements include The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (Rome), The U.S. Green Building Council (NYC), Princeton University (New Jersey), Domus Academy (Milan), The Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency (Rotterdam), TEDx Danubia (Budapest), The Rio+20 Earth Summit (Rio de Janeiro), The Design Council UK (London), The Royal College of Art (London), The V&A (London), ‘We Make the City’ (Amsterdam), The Swedish Architecture Association (Stockholm), The City of Barcelona, The MAS Museum (Antwerp), the French Ministry of Agriculture (Paris), The Slow Food University (Pollenzo), The Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the Danish Ministry of Agriculture Food Summit (Copenhagen).
Carolyn takes a cultural and spatial approach to a range of topics including sustainable food systems, the urban-rural relationship, the evolution of cities, regenerative agriculture, the value and culture of food, the history of cooking and kitchen design, the politics and economics of food and how these impact on local and global questions of equity and ecology.
Carolyn welcomes invitations from organisations keen to learn more about the power of seeing and acting through food and how that might benefit their existing work and everyday lives. She is equally happy talking with or without slides and to work with large or small groups of any kind. Her future events schedule is listed below and will be kept as up to date as possible.
To discuss availability and fees:
Events 2022
24th January 2022
London
Private talk and debate with Borough Market Trustees
Borough Market
1st February 2022
Private lecture for MSc Gastronomy course
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
3rd February 2022
Keynote, Sustainable Cities Conference
Södertälje District, Sweden
6th February 2022
Private lecture for ETH, Berlin
ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zurich
9th February 2022
Solutions Solidaires Day
Gironde Region, France
12th February 2022
Amsterdam
Amsterdam Symposium on the History of Food
University of Amsterdam
16th February 2022
Amsterdam
Keynote at AMS Institute's conference 'Reinventing the City'
AMS Institute
11th March 2022
Private lecture, Drivers of Change Workshop
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Switzerland
17th March 2022
London
Lecture
University of Westminster
24th March 2022
Talk
Amsterdam Regenerative Food
13th April 2022
Interview with Gilly Smith (comment on high streets)
Right 2 Food Podcast
7th May 2022
Barcelona
Keynote, MODEL, Barcelona Architecture Festival
City of Barcelona and The Board of Architects of Catalonia (COAC)
May 2022
Interview with Julie Holck and Simon Nielsen
The Empty Square, Copenhagen Architecture Festival
4th June 2022
Debate with Matt Orlando and Anne Katrine Harders
Heartland Festival, Denmark
9th June 2022
Interview with Marta Bugés
Urban Next Podcast, Barcelona
21st June 2022
Delft
Keynote, TU Delft Mobility|Society Event
Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
23rd June 2022
Almere
Talk at Setting the Table Symposium, Essay launch
Aeres Hogeshool, Almere
5th July 2022
Conversation with Carlo Petrini
Slow Food/La Stampa
11th July 2022
Interview with Marije Vogelzang
Chapter in Book Lick It
25th July 2022
Interview with Pavel Turuk
26th July 2022
Filmed interview with Bright Vibes
11th August, 2022
Talk, Kew Gardens
23rd August 2022
Malmö
Keynote
The Conference
22nd September 2022
Turin
Keynote, Slow Food Terra Madre
Slow Food
27th September 2022
Keynote, Flemish Food Day