Systems Archives — The Common Table

Territorial Stomachs & Other Future Foodscapes

12. December 2024
4 minute read

The Future Foodscapes Research Unit rethinks the future of the planetary food system through research and speculative projects, one of which explores the viewpoint of the kitchen as an externalised stomach.

Gut Feeling

21. November 2024
9 minute read

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

19. October 2024
15 minute read

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.

Urban Fungi Farm

24. July 2024
10 minute read

Food startup expert Eldad Arnon is the co-founder of the gourmet urban mushroom farm Tupu in Berlin. TCT talked to him about the realities of sustainable urban food production and his vision for changing how we produce food.

Redesigning Rural Relations

26. June 2024
5 minute read

Designer and artist Anastasia Eggers' rethinking of the farmers' almanac Migrating Seasons is one of 16 projects in a new book exploring narratives for existing, disappearing and emerging relationships in the countryside.

Food Thinking

28. May 2024
9 minute read

Design thinking is no longer fit for purpose. How can design be practised more relationally and inclusively, mindful of complexity and inequality? Through food thinking and asking better questions, says Sophie Lovell, co-founder of The Common Table.

Far From the Madding Cows

19. January 2023
14 minute read

Am I a farmer? A grazier? A conservationist? Fifth-generation tenant farmer Frankie Guy talks about her struggles as well as her joys farming beef on Salisbury Plain in England.

This Bite Will Cost You

18. January 2023
10 minute read

Priya Mani attends a MAD Monday panel talk to hear experts discuss how the current food price crisis is manifesting in the food chains of Northern Europe and Denmark in particular.

Terroir, Taste & Place

16. November 2022
9 minute read

Can a place really have a taste? Of course it can, it's all about the balance between the human and non-human and appreciating the big picture says sommèliere, gastronome and food writer Ursula Heinzelmann.