Education Archives — The Common Table

Future Cultures: A Food & Design Residency

18. September 2026
3 minute read

Emiliano Hernandez Sánchez's 'Space for Food' residency at SBYD.SPACE in Germany is an example how design education institutions are starting to support the adaptation of design practice in the face of a growing need for food sovereignty, resilience and security.

How to Feed the World Responsibly

18. May 2026
12 minute read

Tara Shyam is Executive Director of Regen10, a global initiative to support the transition to an inclusive, regenerative, and equitable agrifood systems, and it just published a roadmap. A conversation about sharing responsibility as well as direction.

Food is Political

14. April 2026
14 minute read

BBC Food Programme presenter Sheila Dillon has spent four decades establishing food as an important, newsworthy subject and breaking big political stories through the lens of food.

The Burnt Chef Revolution

23. February 2026
12 minute read

Kris Hall is the founder of The Burnt Chef Project, an internationally networked organisation helping people in the hospitality industry with their mental health, whilst offering training and counselling to create healthier workplaces. An interview by Ševko Topčić.

The Future is Ancestral

12. February 2026
12 minute read

An agricultural collective called Arca Tierra supplies 50 city restaurants as well as locals with fresh food by reviving ancestral agriculture practices in the Chinampas wetlands near Mexico City. The Common Table spoke to the farm coordinator Sebastián Herrera, about finding what was lost.

a squash bee sleeping in a squash flower

The Honey Merchant

29. January 2026
11 minute read

Diego Contreras is a biologist and honey expert from the uniquely biodiverse region of Oaxaca. His project Nunduve aims to educate consumers about honey's origins and environmental issues, rather than just its flavours and uses.

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Through the Lens of Food

20. January 2026
12 minute read

Journalist Nathan Thornburgh is the co-founder and publisher of Roads & Kingdoms. He also worked closely with Anthony Bourdain on the Explore Parts Unknown series and the travel podcast The Trip. Here he talks to The Common Table about print as self-care and how food can form the soul.

The Living Recipe

24. November 2025
10 minute read

Chef, writer, student, father, Nathan Farrell addresses the received wisdom of the recipe in formal culinary education. He calls for a decolonised food literacy taught in a way that remembers without freezing and transforms without erasing.

Food Design, It’s Complicated

6. August 2025
17 minute read

Can Food Design improve our relationships with food or is it just a grandiose term for decorative plating? Leading voices in Food & Design, Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, Fabio Parasecoli, Laila Snevele, and Sophie Lovell confer at a communal table moderated by our own Orlando Lovell.