OUTREACH
The findings of the project Future Food Imaginaries are disseminated through scholarly publications, but the project also seeks to engage people through collaboration with other food actors, open lectures, participation in food fairs, and the organization of sustainable dinners. These are events where the project communicates with the general public, with students and school pupils, and with stakeholders such as restaurants and other food entrepreneurs. The findings of the project are also presented with the help of academic conference papers and at workshops organized as part of the project. During such meetings, the project connects with other scholars and scientists who are also trying to understand the confluence of food, culture and climate.
For interviews with the PI of the project Johan Höglund, see MEDIA. If you are interested in organising a dinner or inviting the PI to give a lecture, contact the project here: CONTACT.
COLLABORATION
Consulted by Demand Generation Alliance
Future Food Imaginaries was consulted by the organisation Demand Generation Alliance, a section of Gain – Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition – during a pilot study of Sweden. DGA’s mission is to understand why people prefer certain diets and to help shift preferences towards more sustainable and nutritious ways of eating.
FOOD FUTURE DINNERS
Time Machine to 2050, a dinner organized with Teleborg’s Slott, a restaurant and hotel in Växjö, Sweden.
This sustainable, vegan dinner consisted of a three-course meal served in connection with the MAT2022 food fair in Växjö, Sweden. The point of the dinner was to let people taste food that may help resolve the food crisis. In this way, the dinner was marketed as a Time Machine and a journey into the future.
Food Fiction Food Futures, a dinner organized with Hedlandet Residens and Torna Hällestad Lanthandel, outside Lund, Sweden.
This dinner was organized around a series of reading from climate fiction, accompanied by a sustainable dinner (vegetarian with proteins also sourced from mussels). The readings were accompanied by a conversation between the convener and Johan Höglund, PI of the Future Food Imaginaries project.
PUBLIC, INVITED PRESENTATIONS
Fiction and Food Futures
Open Lecture at The Tasty Future Festival, 16 April, 2024 at Linnaeus University. See this blog post for more information on the event.
Slottsmiddag 2050 – en tidsmaskin.
Two puplic presentation of the project at the annual Food Fair MAT2022 in Växjö, Sweden.
Att äta framtiden: Mat, kultur och klimatkrisen
Lecture given to the members of the Office of Student Affairs at Linnaeus University, 15 December, 2022.
Public lecture at Linnaeus University, 28 April, 2023.
INVITED ACADEMIC ONLINE LECTURES
An end to Eating? Future Food Imaginaries and the Climate Emergency.
Lecture given at Leuphana Universität Lüneburg on 19 January, 2023. The lecture was organised by Leuphana University’s North American Studies section as part of their series “Maple Leaf & Stars and Stripes”.
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
Modernity/coloniality and the Aesthetics of Taste
Conferences given at the Conference Crossroads 17-19 November, 2022. Part of the panel “Decolonising Food (Studies) in the Anthropocene”
An End to Eating: Food, Fiction and the Planetary Emergency
Conference paper given at the conference Environmental Emergencies Across Media, Linnaeus University 16-18 March 2023.
Consuming Ancient Wine Futures
Conference paper given at the workshop Modern Wines and Ancient Wines, 2-5 November 2023, Netherlands Institute at Athens.
ACADEMIC WORKSHOPS
Speculative Fiction and Future Food Imaginaries – a Transnational Conversation
This workshop took place online 11 December, 2024. was co-organized with Desiree Lewis at the Critical Food Studies program at Universities of the Western Cape, KwaZulu Natal and Pretoria.