The Urban Foodscape

Speaker: Rositsa T. Ilieva, Adjunct Faculty
Host: Nadia Elrokhsy, Associate Director, AAS & BFA Interior Design 

The urban foodscape - from field to fork - has long been shaped by decisions taken either in the board rooms of large international corporations or by sector-bound national government agencies. In cities, this has led to the consolidation of abundant, yet uneven corporate foodscapes, devoid of food’s vital role as a social-ecological relationship.

In this talk, based on her book “Urban Food Planning: Seeds of Transition in the Global North”, Dr. Rositsa Ilieva will contend that, over the past decade, designers, architects, and city planners have started using their distinct talents and competencies to help communities restore urban foodscapes’ civic and ecological role and dismantle the notion of food as a mere commodity, far-removed from the professions claiming expertise in the built environment.

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