Change the (Design) System
A conversation with Systems Change Designer Ashley Scarborough about how she redesigned her own professional path and found food systems as her medium.
Gastronativism: Us & Them
Food Studies professor Fabio Parasecoli on gastronativism, the "ideological use of food in politics to advance ideas about who belongs to a community". A conversation about "us", "them", food, politics, and systemic thinking.
Gut Feeling
Dr Vanessa Kimbell is a sourdough baker. educator and food activist. She talks to The Common Table about her very personal healing journey with sourdough, which led to her mission to change systems in the food industry.
Inside Story: Food Behind Bars
Chef Natalia Middleton from the non-profit Food Behind Bars talks about about control, mental health, monopolies in the British prison system and creating change through food.
Serendipity and Gastrophysics
Professor Charles Spence is an experimental psychologist who popularised the term gastrophysics. The Common Table talked to him about serendipitous encounters and food that makes you cry.
On Food & Education: Jeremy Coller
Jeremy Coller, the founder of the FAIRR Initiative explains how teaching investors more about the global food industry has the potential to effect significant change.
On Food & Education: Rich Shih
Koji and fermentation expert and co-founder of the Kojicon conference Rich Shih talks about teaching people how to access their lost knowledge of food fermentation.
On Food & Education: Noa Kekuewa Lincoln
Noa Kekuewa Lincoln, indigenous cropping systems expert at the University of Hawai'i, explains how core human values are deeply embedded in food and agriculture and that there is much to learn from island diversity and resilience.
On Food & Education: Marije Vogelzang
The Dutch eating designer and educator Marije Vogelzang, former head of Food Non Food at the Design Academy Eindhoven, one of the world's first food design degree departments, talks about teaching the eating human being.
