A Foodscape for Equity, Ecology, and Circular Economy

About A Foodscape for Equity, Ecology, and Circular Economy

San Diego has more small, organic, woman-owned farms than any county in the United States and less than 2% of what our farms grow is consumed locally. Within this abysmal statistic is a fantastic invitation to re-envision our local food system and re-define who gets access to healthful foods, how we interact with the land, and who owns our supply chain. This talk will explore concrete examples of how the farmers, eaters, and allies of Foodshed Cooperative are leveraging public/private partnerships to take on climate change, address health equity, and cultivate viable small businesses so that our region can actualize food justice for all.

About Ellee Igoe

Ellee has more than 20 years of experience developing and implementing impactful food justice projects, including the nation’s first market match program, San Diego’s first SNAP-accessible farmers market, and San Diego’s first permitted urban farm. In 2012, she co-created Solidarity Farm (which was honored as California’s Climate Smart Farm of the Year in 2020) and was a co-founder of Foodshed Cooperative in 2020. She holds a MA in community and regional planning from the University of Oregon and serves on the advisory board for California Climate and Agriculture Network and the American Health Association's National Health Care by Food Strategic Integration Group.

About Design and Politics in Transition

Who should design serve? How does design work in a crisis, and also recognizing that some people have been living in crisis for hundreds of years? And how might we reimagine design as a radical discipline for dialogue and action? From reinterpreting legal histories and theories that enable the design of place, to redesigning food distribution systems around food and land justice, to transforming what it means to be family, design offers many ways to transform our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environment. Design and Politics in Transition offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.

About Faculty Hosts

Manuel Shvartzberg Carrió is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at UC San Diego. He co-directs the Just Transitions Initiative, is a member of the Indigenous Futures Institute, and serves on the faculty of the Design Lab. His research explores the architectural and urban history of modernism in the Americas, emphasizing intersections of technology, law, geopolitics, labor, and capitalism from the 19th to 20th centuries. Shvartzberg Carrió earned his Ph.D. in architecture from Columbia University, an M.A. in aesthetics and politics from CalArts, and both a B.Sc. and M.Arch from University College London. Professionally, he has worked with prominent firms like OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Barozzi Veiga, and David Chipperfield Architects. His scholarship has been supported by institutions such as the Getty Research Institute and the Graham Foundation, and he has contributed to exhibitions including the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale. At UC San Diego, he teaches courses on architecture, geopolitics, and design praxis for equitable transitions.

Lilly Irani is an Associate Professor of Communication and Science Studies at the University of California, San Diego, where she also serves as faculty in the Design Lab, Institute for Practical Ethics, and Critical Gender Studies program. Her interdisciplinary research examines the cultural politics of high-tech work, focusing on how innovation cultures are produced and contested. Drawing on her background in computer science and design, Irani explores the intersections of technology, labor, and development, particularly in South Asia and global AI economies. She is the author of Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Citizens in Modern India (Princeton University Press, 2019), which received the 2020 International Communication Association Outstanding Book Award and the 2019 Diana Forsythe Prize. Irani co-founded Turkopticon, a platform advocating for digital labor rights, and contributes to fields such as Science and Technology Studies and Human-Computer Interaction. Her work has been supported by the Ford Foundation, Fulbright-Nehru Fellowship, and the National Science Foundation.

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