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.
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Events 2008-2020
2021 events
All lectures are online unless otherwise stated.
January 12: talk for Brockwell Park Community Greenhouses
January 13: talk for CUBE (Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies)
January 21: Oxford Food Symposium Kitchen Table co-host - Kamal Mouzawak, Souk el Tayeb
January 26: private 'book club' session with London School of Architects
January 27: talk at ETH Zurich
February 2: private lecture for MSc Gastronomy course, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
February 4: Fieldwork Book Club
February 5: keynote at Super Agro Conference, Montpelier
February 9: lecture: Master in Food Design, Estoril Higher Institute for Tourism and Hotel Studies, Lisbon
February 16: debate on the Future of Food Growing in Cities, Savills
February 22: private talk for UIMP, Barcelona
February 18: private talk for Hague Hogeschool
February 25: Fieldfare Book Club
March 3: private talk and debate on Sitopia, Rothschild's Bank
March 23: Oxford Symposium of Food and Cookery Kitchen Table: co-host of discussion with David R Montgomery and Anne Biklé
March 30: Cambridge University Institute for Sustainability Leadership, private lecture
April 14: World Union of Wholesale Markets – Private lecture and debate
April 21: Borough Market – Debate
April 22: &And Festival, Leuven – Keynote
May 17: live interview with Vitamin T, Flanders
June 2: Sweden FoodTech Big Meet, Stockholm – Debate with Stockholm Mayor Anna König Jerlmyr
June 8: lecture at Columbia University
June 16: Urban Food Conference, Rotterdam
June 17: Dublin Eat the Streets – evening talk
July 2: Also Festival, Somerset UK – keynote and workshop (live)
July 6: Mercabana University, Barcelona – lecture
July 9-11: Oxford Food Symposium – co-host
July 20: Oxford Food Symposium – co-host
September 6: Madrid Technical University – lecture
September 7: Hague Hotelschool – lecture
September 8: keynote at International Food Symposium, Ulster
September 15: keynote at 2nd Biennial Conference on Food and Communication, Ljubljana
September 22-28: visiting researcher at Aeres University, Almere
October 5: keynote for Superilla Barcelona
October 14: keynote for City Development Forum, Poznan
November 2: lecture for Francis Holland School, London
November 4: keynote for Sustainable Food Symposium, Maastricht
November 3: keynote for 3rd International Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics, Ankara
November 10: keynote for Corriere della Sera, Milan
November 11: keynote for Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA) conference on ‘Region’
November 13: keynote for Night of Discoveries Conference, Leiden
November 26: keynote for New Rurality Forum, Valencia
December 9: lecture for EPFL University, Zurich