Feeding the City: What is good food?

Food is a fundamental to sustain life, but is also much more than just a meal. Our food system plays a vital part in London’s social and economic structure, effecting health, wellbeing, academic achievement, and prosperity, and has significant environmental consequences.

As part of emerging planning guidance, the Draft London Food Strategy sets out a ‘call to action’ to ‘see what good food can do’ to create healthier lives, better jobs, thriving producers, cleaner environment, and better social connections. Through a cross disciplinary panel discussion we would like to interrogate what recalibrating the importance of food in our approach to designing cities could mean, and what methods could be used to achieve this.