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SUMMARY:Online lecture by Carolyn Steel
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DESCRIPTION:>> To join the talk: https://epfl.zoom.us/j/91085459836 <<\n>>
  Meeting ID: 910 8545 9836 <<\n\nSITOPIA: REBUILDING OUR LIVES THROUGH FOO
 D\nOn the occasion of the publication of Carolyn Steel’s latest book ’
 Sitopia’\, we invite you to join online for a lecture and conversation w
 ith Sebastien Marot\, in the context of the exhibition ‘Agriculture and 
 Architecture: Taking The County’s Side’.\n\nCarolyn Steel observes how
  food shapes many of the things that we do\, our bodies\, habits\, homes\,
  landscapes\, cities\, politics and economics. But we don’t see it\, bec
 ause it is too big to see – it is everywhere. We live in a Sitopia (sito
 s – food\; topos – place)\, a world shaped by food.\nDrawing on insigh
 ts from philosophy\, history\, architecture\, literature\, politics and sc
 ience\, as well as stories of the farmers\, designers and economists who a
 re remaking our relationship with food\, Carolyn Steel’s last book is a 
 provocative and exhilarating vision for change in our urban and digital ag
 e. She invites us to imagine a “Sitopian economy”\, an economy where f
 ood is valued for what it effectively represents in our lives. This reflec
 tion pleads for more slow food movement\, local production and fair invest
 ment\, a necessary reorganisation in a society where a new precept in trad
 e would be adopted: “Feed your neighbour as yourself”.\n\nCarolyn Stee
 l is a leading thinker on food and cities and has worked with the practice
  since 1989. Her book Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives describes how
  food is key to the ‘urban paradox’ at the core of civilization\, and 
 her concept sitopia (foodplace) is gaining widespread recognition as a too
 l with which to address the dilemmas of 21st century dwelling. Carolyn is 
 a visiting lecturer at Cambridge and Wageningen Universities\, and has tau
 ght for a number of years at Cambridge and London Metropolitan Universitie
 s and the London School of Economics.
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