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 2023
14th January 2023
Interview with Mariángeles García
YOROKUBU Magazine, Spain
15th February 2023
Rotterdam
Public lecture and Seminar
Bahrenrends Fruitpacking District
23rd March 2023
Madrid
Public lecture and Seminar
La Casa Escendida
24th March 2023
Madrid
Radio interview with Alberto Nanclares
RNE (Spanish Public radio)
30th March 2023
Cambridge
Lecture
Cambridge University IDBE
31st March 2023
Article: Sitopia: Food and the Future of Public Space
Urbanbat, Bilbao
23rd April 2023
Marseilles
Talk and debate on 'Taking the Country's Side' exhibition
La friche la Belle de Mai
26th April 2023
Dartington
Seminar
Schumacher College
2nd-5th May 2023
Pollenzo
Lecture series and seminars
University of Gastronomy (Slow Food)
17th May 2023
Bilbao
Keynote Lecture
Food4Future World Summit
21st May 2023
London
Talk and debate with Sheila Dillon
Les Dames d'Escoffier
7th-9th July 2023
Oxford
Co-host
Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery
28th September 2023
Denmark
Talk and debate
Roskilde Festival