The Common Table just turned six. Its founders take stock of their platform and renew their pledge to champion voices for change in humankind’s greatest task ahead: transitioning to a global ecosystem of economies that are decent, fair and safe – through food. thecommontable.eu/what-are-we-...

The Common Table just turned six. Its founders take stock of their platform and renew their pledge to champion voices for change in humankind’s greatest task ahead: transitioning to a global ecosystem of economies that are decent, fair and safe – through food. thecommontable.eu/what-are-we-...

The Common Table just turned six. Its founders take stock of their platform and renew their pledge to champion voices for change in humankind’s greatest task ahead: transitioning to a global ecosystem of economies that are decent, fair and safe – through food. thecommontable.eu/what-are-we-...

We just published a wonderfully hopeful interview with Tara Shyam, Executive Director of @regen10.bsky.social an alliance whose mission is to change the entire food system, resiliently, regeneratively and responsibly. Images: @kadirvanlohuizen.bsky.social thecommontable.eu/how-to-feed-...

The Burnt Chef Revolution: In a timely interview, Kris Hall, the founder of The Burnt Chef Project, discusses how he came to found a global mental health support network for the hospitality industry – a professional field renowned for its toxic work environments. thecommontable.eu/the-burnt-ch...

The strange story of WWII veteran Stanley Green, who spent 25 years, from 1968 to 1993, standing on the corner of Oxford Street in London, urging people to adopt a low-protein diet and dampen their passions. Was he a proto-incel or a beacon of resilience – or both? thecommontable.eu/beans-peas-n...

The Future is Ancestral: "They are not farmers anymore; they are the guardians of the environment. They’re keepers of knowledge. What they need to do is not just produce crops, but produce life." thecommontable.eu/the-future-i...

Can Food Design improve our relationships with food, or is it just fancy plating? OxfordFoodSymposium’ Kitchen Table & @thecommontable.eu invited Priya Mani, Sonia Massari, @fparasecoli.bsky.social, Laila Snevele, @sophielovell.com & Orlando Lovell to discuss. thecommontable.eu/food-design-...

We need to talk about Food Design. thecommontable.eu/food-design-...

“One day, while watching them, I thought: what if these birds could cooperate and create their own alphabet?” A multi species food alphabet by @curly_mads. thecommontable.eu/wild-birds-f... #thecommontable #curlymads #wildbirds #wildbirdsalphabet #pictoplasma #foodalphabet #risoprint

“Every morning, I visit a large urban park near my home to watch birds.” artist @curly_mads tells the story of herWild Birds Food Alphabet. thecommontable.eu/wild-birds-f... Wild Birds Food Alphabet — The Common Table #thecommontable #curlymads #wildbirds #foodalphabet #pictoplasma

Just as we understand individual ingredients, like apples or crisps, to be expressions of systems, The Common Table is an expression of a system initiated by studio_lovell. It is designed to be a hospitable space for learning to ask better questions.

The Common Table's founders studio_lovell were invited to co-design an immersive dining experience and give a keynote at the #HotelschoolTheHague for their Future of Food course in Amsterdam. We talked about learning to ask better questions & understanding ingredients as expressions of systems.

Food systems are emerging as a new focus of investigative cultural practice. The Common Table talked to curator and researcher Meriç Öner, former Director at Salt in Istanbul, who brings a unique perspective to the intersection of food, culture and art. thecommontable.eu/foods-capaci...

Embracing food thinking not only facilitates an accessible, inclusive path to understanding and nurturing thriving ecologies by building and maintaining healthy relationships, it is essential to survival.

What if there was a more inclusive way to approach the design process than “design thinking”? One that is based, not on “things” or “problems” but on building and maintaining healthy relationships instead? 1/3 thecommontable.eu/food-thinking/

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A timely conversation with Food Studies professor Fabio Parasecoli on gastronativism (the “ideological use of food in politics to advance ideas about who belongs to a community”) the weaponising of food in politics and systemic thinking in a design context. thecommontable.eu/gastronativi...

“The old world is dying, and the new world is struggling to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci Little monster by @aetherelf.bsky.social

What do you think are the right policy supports to help this transition for farmers and people in the food industry? asks @tabledebates.bsky.social Matthew Kessler of regenerative food systems expert Rupert Simons @systemiq.bsky.social Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

Loving this discussion. What do you think are the right policy supports to help this transition? asks @tabledebates.bsky.social Matthew Kessler of agroecologist and agricultural biodiversity expert Emile Frison @ipes-food.org Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

What do we need to do right now to move toward a fossil-fuel-free system? @tabledebates.bsky.social 's Matthew Kessler asks farmer Helen Browning @thesoilassociation.bsky.social Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25

Is a Fossil-Free Food System Possible? What might an agroecological food system look like in practice? Oxford Real Farmers Conference #ORFC25 panel from @tabledebates.bsky.social's Matthew Kessler with Rupert simons, Emile Frison @ipes-food.org and Helen Browning @thesoilassociation.bsky.social

Two devastating sentences stuck in our heads from yesterday's day 1 of the #ORFC25 spoken by agroecologist George McAllister about the destruction of land and farming in Gaza. rooted-magazine.org/2024/08/01/w...