News and Events

2011 Events

Mon 24th Jan 2011: Food and Cities Course, Wageningen Business School

Wed 8th June 2011: Royal Town Planning Institute in Scotland: Sir Patrick Geddes Commemorative Lecture, National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh

2010 Events:

Tues 19th January 2010: Stockholm Architecture Museum: public lecture

Weds 20th January 2010: Stockholm Architecture School: lecture

Thurs 28th January 2010: University of West England: lecture

Sat 6th February 2010: Filmhuis Den Haag, ‘The Real Dirt on Farmer John’, talk

Tues 16th February 2010: Highgate Literary Society: public lecture

Sat 20th February 2010: Düsseldorf Kunsthalle: Eat Art Conference, talk on Kitchens

Thurs 25th February 2010: Cabe Space Leaders Conference, Keynote

Tues 3rd – Weds 4th March 2010: Ecobuild, Earl’s Court

Fri 12th March: South Bank University Architecture School, lecture

Fri 26th March: Sunday Times Literary Festival, Oxford

Tues 13th April 2010: Cardiff Universty: public lecture

Thurs 6th May 2010: Manchester CUBE Gallery, public lecture

Monday 17th May 2010: Wageningen University Rural Sociology Unit: open lecture

Thurs 27th May 2010: Base London Conference, Excel Centre: discussion with Tim Lang

Thurs 3rd June 2010: Scottish National Heritage, Perth

Thurs 10th June 2010: Amsterdam Kennisdag (knowledge day), Felix Meritis, Amsterdam

Sat 19th June 2010: London Festival of Architecture: food and cities bike ride talk (with Jeremy Till)

Mon 21 - Tues 22nd June 2010: Leicester University, The Communicative Role of Architecture, Symposium (with Dalibor Vesely, Peter Carl, Eric Parry, Joseph Rykwert, David Leatherbarrow, Alberto Perez-Gomez and others)

Fri 9th June 2010: Local Authority Caterers Association Annual Conference, Birmingham

Weds 15th September 2010: Schumacher College, Dartington: Reconnecting People to Food (with Edward Espe Brown)

Weds 20th October 2010: Hungry New York 2, City Bakery, New York City

Fri 29-Sat 30 October 2010: Association of European Schools of Planning Conference, Brighton (keynote)

Mon 29-Tues 30 Nov 2010: Food and Cities course, Wageningen Business School (with Han Wiskerke)

2009 Events:

Monday 12 January 2009, 6.30pm:Presentation and debate on how food shapes Birmingham City, with the Director of Planning & Development Clive Dutton OBE and Glenn Howells of Glenn Howells Architects

Monday 19th January 2009, 12.00pm: Food and the City, Cambridge University
Lecture 1 – The Land

Monday 26th January 2009, 12.00pm: Food and the City, Cambridge University
Lecture 2 – Supplying the City

Wednesday 28th January 2009, 1.30 pm: Lecture, Royal College of Art

Thursday 29th January 2009: Talk at Landscape Institute East of England Conference, New Hall, Cambridge

Monday 2nd February 2009, 12.00pm: Food and the City, Cambridge University
Lecture 3 – Market and Supermarket

Monday 9th February 2009, 12.00pm: Food and the City, Cambridge University
Lecture 4 – Kitchen and Table

Thursday 12th February 2009, Talk at Cabe Space Leaders Programme, Leeds

Tuesday 17th February 2009, evening: Talk at Cardiff University

Wednesday 18th February 2009, 11.00 am: Lecture at School of Architecture, Cardiff University

Wednesday 4th March 2009, 1:00 pm Talk at EcoBuild, Earls Court

Friday 13th March, Lecture in association with Carrot City exhibition, Ryerson University, Toronto.

Friday 20th March 2009, Seminar at School of Architecture, Edinburgh University

Weds 25th March 2009: Opening lecture for Foodprint Programme, Stroom Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.

Wednesday 29th April, 2009: The Kojo Nmandi Show, WAMU, 88.5 FM Washington DC.

Wednesday 29th April, 2009: ‘Green Community’ Debate, National Building Museum, Washington D.C.

Friday 1st May, 2009: US Green Building Council of New York, Masterclass in Sustainable Design Lecture, 125 Park Avenue, New York

Tuesday 5th May 2009: Hungry New York, City Bakery, New York City.

Tuesday 12th May 2009: Launch of Govt Strategy World Class Places (chair), National Theatre, London.

Monday 18th May 2009, 4.15pm: Phantom Radio 105.2 Talk Show

Thursday 21st May, 11am: Newstalk 106–108 fm interview

Thursday 21st May, 1pm: Manx Radio interview

Thursday 21st May, 4.15 pm: Resonance FM interview

Wednesday 27th May 2009: Urban Agriculture Debate at the Building Centre, London

Sunday 30th May 2009: Talk at Bryanston School, Dorset

Friday 26th June 2009: Foodprint Symposium, Stroom Gallery, The Hague

Monday 6th July 2009: University College Birmingham Annual Research Conference, Birmingham.

Tues 14th July, 7.30pm: Hampshire Food Festival: Winchester

Tuesday 21- Friday 24 July 2009: TED conference, Oxford – The Substance of Things not Seen’.
Presentation on Hungry City

Thurs 8 – Sat 10th October: Eden Forum, Eden Project, Cornwall

Tues 13th October: Bristol Festival of Ideas

Tues 3rd November: Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency, Rotterdam

Thurs 5th – Sat 7th November: Clear Village Lab, Barcelona

Mon 7th December: Groningen, Netherlands – public lecture

Sat 12th December: Netherlands Environment Assessment Agency debate, Copenhagen (COP15)

Sun 13th December: Dirt Café Sitopia debate and Salon, Copenhagen

2008 Events:

Thursday 12th June 2008, 6.30pm: Reading and talk at Heffers, Cambridge.

Saturday 28th June 2008, 12.30pm: East End public lunch (London Festival of Architecture)

Friday 11th July 2008, 7.00pm: Lecture, ‘How Food has Shaped London’, Coin Street Community Centre, chaired by Sheila Dillon. The lecture was recorded as part of Radio 4’s The Food Programme all about Hungry City. (London Festival of Architecture)

Sunday 20th July 2008, 12.30 pm, and Monday 21st July, 4.00 pm. The Food Programme, BBC Radio 4.

Monday 18th August, 7.00pm: The Politics of Food, with Graham Harvey and Harriet Lamb.
Edinburgh Book Festival, Highland Park Spiegeltent

Wednesday 3 September, 9.00am: Interview for This Way Up, Radio NZ

Thurs 4 September 12.45pm: Talk at Cabe

Thursday 11 September, 7.30pm: Food Debate with Tim Lang
Thistle Hotel, Kings Road, Brighton

Tuesday 16 September 12.30pm: Talk at Arup
Boston House, 38 Fitzroy Square.

Wednesday 24 September, 12.15pm: Talk at the Design Council
34 Bow Street London WC2E 7DL

Wednesday 24 September, 6.30pm: Talk at the Green Living Centre
Islington Council, 222 Upper Street, London, N1 1XR

Wednesday 1st October, 6.30pm: Domuslab project, Venice Biennale.
Talk at Domus Academy, Milan.

Tuesday 7 October, 9.30am: Food Security in the 21st Century
Chair of Session 5: UK Food Supply in the 21st Century: The New Dynamic
The Chartered Insurance Institute, 20 Aldermanbury, London EC2

Thursday 9th October, Landscape Institute Annual Conference: Housing, Land Use and Community
9.40 am: Keynote speech

Tuesday 14th October, 5.00 pm: Talk at Canterbury School of Architecture

Thursday 16th October, 17.30-19.30: World Food Day – Food Ethics Council event

Monday 6th November: Lecture at London Metropolitan University School of Architecture

Monday 10th November: Lecture at Simon de Montfort University School of Architecture

Tuesday 11th November: 5.00pm: Lecture at University of East London School of Architecture

Thursday 4th December: Co-operatives UK conference on Ethical Shopping
Chaired by Sheila Dillon
British Library Conference Centre, London.

Monday 8th-Tuesday 9th December: National Food Markets Conference, Blackpool

Friday 12 December: Presentation to city council of Krakow, Poland
(Plac Nowy Market project)