[getsmart-l] Food For Talk - April 20

[foodfortalk at utoronto.ca]

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Food For Talk presents the last seminar of the semester:
Designing for Food and Agriculture: Recent Explorations at Ryerson University

Friday April 20, 2007, 2:00 ? 4:00 PM
Ryerson University, Architecture Building, 325 Church Street, ARC203.

Speakers include:
June Komisar, Ryerson University, Department of Architectural Science
Joe Nasr, Ryerson University, Centre for Studies in Food Security
Students from Ryerson?s Department of Architectural Science

Until recently, the discipline of architecture has not given much  
thought to the role it can offer to food production, distribution and  
related issues, despite the enormity of the role of the food sector in  
cities.  At the same time, the emerging alternative food movement has  
barely engaged with the possible contributions that designers and the  
design process can provide to it.  Recently, Ryerson students have  
been exploring the intersection of these disciplines and interests.   
Come and join us as Ryerson faculty and students present how they have  
tackled agricultural and food issues as design challenges, in projects  
ranging from first-year urban investigations, through student-run  
design competitions, up to complex final-year thesis projects.

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'Food for Talk' provides a place for conversations to take place
between people who work with communities, government and universities
to explore the emerging and challenging issues around food security,
agricultural transformation, and local food alternatives/networks.
This series is jointly sponsored by the Centre for Urban Health
Initiatives at the University of Toronto, York University Faculty of
Environmental Studies, the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food
Security, and the Toronto Food Policy Council.

For more information about the seminar series, contact Kim
Crichton-Struthers at foodfortalk at utoronto.ca or telephone the
Centre for Urban Health Initiatives at 416-978-7223.

Previous Food For Talk seminars are presently available in digital
audio format at the website of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food
Security, http://www.ryerson.ca/~foodsec and the Centre For Urban
Health Initiatives website, http://www.cuhi.utoronto.ca/