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 2024
30/01/2024
Seminar
Cambridge CISL
10/03/2024
Pollenzo
Lecture Course: Sitopia
University of Gastronomy (Slow Food)
11/04/2024
Chapter: Sitopia: Rebalancing the urban-rural relationship
Urban/Rural Britain (book to be published by Assemble)
21/04/2024
Online seminar
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
11/05/2024
Barcelona
Public lecture
Barcelona BioCultura Festival
13/05/2024
Online lecture
Gramounce
15/05/2024
Madrid
Seminar
Norman Foster Foundation
13/06/2024
London
Public lecture
Marylebone Urban Farm
09/07/2024
Keynote: What is a Garden?
Oxford Food Symposium
09/07/2024
Online seminar
Arup CISL Cambridge
29/07/2024
Newcastle
Lecture
Food and Drink North East
17/09/2024
London
Public debate
Garden Museum
18/09/2024
London
Public debate
Future of Food Festival, London
03/10/2024
Izmir
Keynote
Food Soverignty Conference, Turkey
03/10/2024
Barcelona
Keynote
Barcelona 5th Zero Hunger Conference
10/10/2024
Brussels
Keynote
Gluon Event
06/11/2024
Barcelona
Keynote
Barcelona
11/11/2024
Online Keynote
Right to Food International Meeting, Bizkaia Spain
19/11/2024
Barcelona
Public lecture
Manifesta Festival, Barcelona
20/11/2024
Barcelona
Public seminar: Doing Commensality
Barcelona Urban Research Institute
21/11/2024
Barcelona
Seminar with IHP Food Systems
Barcelona Urban Research Institute
28/11/2024
Utrecht
Keynote
Conference: 'Pathways to Sustainability'
29/11/2024
Dronten
Keynote
Conference: 'The Future of Food'