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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 2026

03/02/2026

Panel: Cities Countdown to 2030

United Cities and Local Governments

13/02/2026

Interview with Iain Montgomery

Challenger Cities podcast

22-25/02/2026

Delft

Keynote and meetings

Hungry Eco Cities final event

18/04/2026

London

Private seminar

Sitopia Farm, workshop for Emergent Generation

20/04/2026

Interview by Jon Aguirre-Such

Zarch Magazine, Barcelona

24/04/2026

Interview by Axelle Thierry (in French)

Éditions 205

07/05/2026

Windsor

Workshop on City Regions (speaker/participant)

St George's House, Windsor

20/05/2026

Leeds

Panel on Why Markets Matter

UKREiiF Smithfield Market Takeover event

8-12/06/2026

Rotterdam

Keynote and exhibition opening

Resilience Food Stories

10-12/07/2026

Oxford

Symposiast and presenter

Oxford Food Symposium

06/08/2026

Podcast

Rebalance Earth

08/09/2026

London

Public talk

Architectural Association

11-13/09/2026

Warsaw

Keynote

Warsaw Under Construction Festival

12/10/2026

Dublin

Keynote

Food Literacy Symposium, Airfield Estate, Dublin

16-17/10/2026

Turin

Keynote

Utopian House Conference, Turin

21-24/10/2026

Venice

Keynote

AESOP Conference, Venice

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