Viewpoint Archives — The Common Table

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.

Diet Degrowth

30. September 2023
11 minute read

Sean Roy Parker is part of a movement seeking new connections between food, consumption and digestion. Here he proposes a new "diet degrowth" discourse.

No Cookery Books

11. May 2023
13 minute read

Food connects through time, cultures, community and adversity. A conversation with cookery writer and scholar Claudia Roden about discovering identity and collective belonging through food.

From Farm to Feld

7. March 2023
6 minute read

Chef Jake Potashnick has cooked in kitchens all over the world. Now for his own restaurant "Feld" in Chicago, he wants to source produce the "right "way – even if it is the harder way.

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.

Sustainability by Stealth

24. November 2022
17 minute read

As specialists in food retail and hospitality, architects Holland Harvey's value-led practice is all about teamwork, collaboration and conscious choice. It's an approach that's not just applicable to architecture.

Molding Food Futures

23. August 2022
12 minute read

LinYee Yuan, the founder and editor of MOLD magazine, talks about designing the future of food, working in print and her recent return to place-based practice in the community.

S72+ Supply Chains

25. July 2022
9 minute read

S72+ is a new collaborative dinner series by studio_lovell, founders of The Common Table, where we gather a variety of people from different disciplines to discuss pivotal issues, in this case, "supply chains".