We’re looking forward to meeting you all in Minneapolis next week, and to having a lively and educational seminar around our collective work. \u00a0If you have not already read everyone’s original submission to the conference, please do so. \u00a0We realize this is a very busy time at the beginning of our semesters, but having these background introductions out of the way before we meet will be a great way to hit the ground running.<\/p>\n
The practices of eating, growing, storing, moving, marketing and disposing of food are fundamental in creating relationships between people, ecologies, technologies and places. Food is inherently multidisciplinary and because of its intimacy (everyone eats) it has become a nexus of increasing public attention focused on a range of critical issues. However, as we quickly begin to realize, our contemporary food systems are highly complex and often shape by multiple stakeholders and\u00a0by very powerful interests. The \u201efood movement\u2030 has emerged as a diverse collection of groups and interests seeking to change these system relationships at many different levels. Similarly the participants in this seminar bring together different disciplinary perspectives, critiques and purposes as well as different modes of engagement from policy to performance.\u00a0\u00a0At this important moment in the food movement, we have a great opportunity to reflect on the results, implications, and trajectories of some of our work done to date.<\/p>\n
So, in preparation for next week, we would like each of you to reflect on the project(s) that you described in your seminar proposal, and make one post to the blog describing NOT the project, but rather four aspects of your engagement with it:<\/p>\n
Please organize your post according to these four topics. \u00a0We will be taking all of your responses and graphically organizing them in time for our seminar discussion. \u00a0It is our intention to use these as starting points for a discussion, with each of you highlighting your contribution briefly (for a minute or two), leaving the majority of the time for conversation about the food meta-system implications of our various efforts. \u00a0How might we build on the discovery of unintended implications, unanticipated convergences, unmet expectations, or mutually reinforcing or conflicting modes of engagement as starting points for larger systemic engagements with our food systems? Or, at least, as provocations for the development of different practices for public scholarship?<\/p>\n
Because we have only 90 minutes for our seminar at the conference, we would like to take care of some of the introductory business before we meet. \u00a0Our primary goal for the seminar will be to look at our work as a microcosm of food system projects from the “10,000 foot” scale. \u00a0A commonly used reference in systems thinking, this scalar viewpoint is intended NOT to be top-down, but rather directly engaged from a meta-perspective. \u00a0In our work in interdisciplinary design, food systems, and engaged teaching, we continually discover an array of fantastic projects that often have significant unintended consequences as a result of their lack of this meta-thinking. \u00a0If we do see our collective work as a microcosm of projects, and look at these from this 10,000 foot view, we hope to develop a conversation around some of the systems-level implications of our various projects.<\/p>\n
Also, if you haven’t read Julie Guthman’s “Bringing Good Food to Others,” posted on the blog (and attached to this email,) please also read this before we meet. \u00a0It offers a tremendously relevant frame to the way we hope to discuss food system\/public scholarship issues during the seminar.<\/p>\n
And, as requested in the August 19th post, if you have similarly inspiring sources that\u00a0address the intersection of food systems, education and engagement, please take a moment to post them, or citations to them, for the rest of the group.<\/p>\n
In order for us to have time to collect and organize your posts, PLEASE MAKE YOUR POST ONLINE BEFORE MIDNIGHT ON TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20TH (if possible).<\/p>\n
See you next week,<\/p>\n
Brian, Matt, and Kathleen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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