Infrastructuring for caring food practices: eco-social design and community economies in action
When: September 23, 15:00 – 17:00
Where: Leeuwenborch B:201 R:0072
In this workshop, Bianca Elzenbaumer invites us into her work in the alpine Lagarina valley. There she is working on her 40-year research plan with a focus on supporting and creating community economies and commons starting from the places she lives in. In the first part of the workshop, she will give an overview the European Urban Initiative project Station for Transformation. With this projectthe still active train station of the town of Rovereto is being transformed into a public-civic hub for the collective and inventive tackling of climate change and biodiversity loss. Specifically, she will share her current work of collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders to create a climate canteen at the station as a convivial space that acts both as a popular food space as well as a space dedicated to the co-creation, experimentation and grounding of a local food policy. In the second part of the workshop, Elzenbaumer will involve the participants in imagining together what infrastructures and economies for caring food practices can look like. The aim of the workshop is a lively exchange and exploration around food, climate change and community organising for more ecologically and socially just futures.
Dr Bianca Elzenbaumer is a feminist design researcher based in the Italian Alps. Elzenbaumer is a founding member of the design practice Brave New Alps and of the community academy La Foresta. She is a member of the Community Economies Institute. She completed her doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2014. She holds an MA in Communication Art & Design from the Royal College of Art and an MA in Mediation and International Peacebuilding from the University of Bologna.
Supported by the CSPS FOODSCAPES CLUSTER
Centre for Space, Place and Society 