Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP)
Friday 29 ‐ Saturday 30 October 2010
School of Architecture and Design
Faculty of Arts
University of Brighton
Keynote Speakers
Professor June Komisar
Ryerson University, Toronto
Architect, member of the Toronto Food Policy Council and a co‐curator for the exhibit Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture.
Dr Joe Nasr
Ryerson University, Toronto
Associate of the Centre for Studies in Food Security, and Co‐coordinator of MetroAg, North American Alliance for Urban Agriculture.
Professor Tim Lang
City University, London
Professor of Food Policy.
Carolyn Steel
Architect, Columnist, Lecturer and Author of Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives.
Planning for sustainable food production and consumption is an increasingly important issue for policymakers, planners, designers, farmers, suppliers, activists, business and scientists alike. In the wider contexts of global climate change, a world population of 9 billion and growing, competing food production systems and diet‐related public health concerns, are there new paradigms for urban and rural planning capable of supporting sustainable and equitable food systems?
This conference will promote cross‐disciplinary discussions between active researchers and practitioners in response to this question, and related issues articulated during the first European Sustainable Food Planning Conference held in 2009 in Almere. A report from the Almere conference may be downloaded from
here
Working at a range of scales and with a variety of practical and theoretical models, we will review and elaborate definitions of sustainable food systems, and begin to define ways of achieving them.
