Master Lecture Series - Food City
Master Lecture Series - Food City
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Speaker: CJ Lim
CJ Lim is the Professor of Architecture and Urbanism. He served as Vice-Dean at the Bartlett and Pro-Provost of UCL. He is also the founder of Studio 8 Architects (www.cjlim-studio8.com), an international award-winning practice in urban planning, architecture and landscape.
Food City , the follow up to Smartcities and Eco-Warriors, explores the issue of urban transformation and how the creation, storage and distribution of food has been, and can again become, a construct for the practice of everyday life. Global in scope, the book addresses the frameworks of over 25 cities through the medium of food and how the city is governed. Voices of urban residents and stakeholders of varying levels in the city’s gastro-economy permeate through the essays. Food City investigates the reinstatement of food at the core of national and local governance through an ambitious piece of polemic titled the Food Parliament - how it can be a driver to restructure employment, education, transport, health, culture, communities, and the justice system, re-evaluating how the city functions as a spatial and political entity. The book raises serious questions about the priorities of our governing bodies, using urban relationships to reframe the spaces of food consumption and production, analyzed through historical precedent, function and form.
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Date: 11 January 2016 (Monday)
Time: 6 – 7:30 pm
Venue: A001
Language: English (simultaneous interpretation not provided)
For enquiries, please contact Mr. Eddie Chan at 2727 9644 / eddiechan@vtc.edu.hk