“Building Communities of Care for Food Systems Change” by the University of Sydney

Get the chance to explore the potential of care to address our broken food systems and the design of future food systems with SEI Postdoctoral Fellow Kate Johnston, on Thursday, 16 December 2021 at 12.00 PM WIB!

Care is not usually associated with our food system, which tends to be “reduced to neutral (or amoral) transactional relationships” (Giraud 2021). Yet it is worth considering what our food system might look like if a care ethic was central. A care ethic promotes collaboration, peer support and generosity, creating an alternative to an individualistic and aggressive marketplace. It also recognises the social context of food.

Informed and inspired by the local Sydney food community and FoodLab Sydney – a program and collaborative research project which aims to address food insecurity by fostering ‘good food networks’, and empowering individual and community participation in the food ecosystem – as well as previous research and thinking about food and care, Kate will explore typologies of care (for one another, for the planet, for food) as well as the dynamics of the carer/cared relationship. She will take an optimistic, perhaps even utopian, view and consider how care might inform the ways in which we build our future food systems and manage food systems failures.

Register here.