Samenvatting Food, health and society
Week 1
Les 1
Reading: The 15- minute city:
Moreno streeft ernaar de Franse hoofdstad Parijs te veranderen in een stad van nabijheid. Zijn concept van 15
minuten is voornamelijk ontwikkeld om de koolstofuitstoot in de stad te verminderen, waarbij onze steden niet
zo zijn opgedeeld in afzonderlijke zones voor wonen, werken en uitgaan, maar als mozaïeken van buurten
waarin aan bijna alle behoeften van de bewoners kan worden voldaan binnen 15 minuten lopen/fietsen/ov.
Hiermee wordt straatruimte vrijgemaakt die voorheen aan auto’s was gewijd, waardoor vervuiling wordt
verminderd en plaats wordt gemaakt voor tuinen, fietspaden en sport- en vrijetijdsvoorzieningen.
Andere innovaties door de toenemende zorgen over luchtvervuiling en klimaatverandering:
- Londen 2003; congestieheffing voor auto’s die het centrum binnenrijden
- Enorme uitbreidingen van openbaarvervoernetwerken in steden van Moskou tot Medellín
Rolland’s taak als stadscommissaris van 15 minuten omvat het coördineren van gerelateerde inspanningen van
verschillende afdelingen.
In Melbourne proberen ze 20 minuten buurten te creëren, maar om dit te realiseren zullen investeringen in het
OV cruciaal zijn. Het label van 20 minuten heeft vooral gediend als een nuttige steno om de doelstellingen van
de stad met bewoners en investeerders te communiceren. Trudeau hoopt dat initiatieven zoals het
huisvestingsfonds ervoor zullen zorgen dat het een diverse dwarsdoorsnede van de bevolking omvat.
Tegenargument: Mensen wonen al in een stad van 15 minuten, maar leggen grote afstanden af in een auto.
Doel van 15 minuten stad: De nuttige tijd die mensen kwijtzijn aan reizen terugkrijgen.
Lecture 1:
Advantages of using utopia, a tool to study food policy.
- It gives us the freedom to imagine.
- As critique of existing systems:
- Productive critique: put into question what exists
- Openness to diversity of ideas.
- As engagement with experimentation around the future of the food system:
- Move away from expecting things to be in a finished stated
- Food worlds are actively in the making
→ it keeps up open, optimistic.
- As a process
- Recognize time and difficulty in changing the status
- Political project to find new ways to talk about food
Summary:
Tool for:
- Critique, experimentation, process (no final end)
- link critique with solution pathways
- Allows for diversity; not one single way forward
- Explore the limits of what is thinkable or realistic
- Starts a dialogue about just food systems.
Pros: You can be aware of what you eat. You can live in a more healthy way.
- To overcome the intention-behaviour gap
, Cons: You can get obsessed by it.
- You can insert the wrong data (because you don’t want to face
the reality).
- you can enter social desirable data.
Pros:
- It can make eat healthier food more easy (you think you eat
unhealthy food (which you probably like) while you actually eat an
apple for example).
Cons:
- You don’t change your lifestyle.
You loose the perception with the real food.
pro :
- more sustainable
- Less waist
Con:
- only people who live near by can have access
- Does it give enough nutrients?
- Maybe it’s too dangerous? There are also
Foodscapes:
To be understood as an assembly two components:
1. Food 2. Landscape (the view/image and materiality of a scene)
To be defined as the reciprocal relationship between
1. Food provisioning practices (growing, procession, transporting, purchasing/acquiring, preparing, eating, get
rid of food waste 2. Landscape
,In other words: The landscapes created, reproduced or transformed through food provisioning practices as well
as the shaping of food practices through these landscapes.
Foodscapes – disciplines and focus:
- Foodscapes research mainly in health-related fields (health promotion, public health and nutrition) and
geography (cultural geography physical geography)
- But also in planning, sociology, anthropology, psychology, environmental studies and architecture
- Substantial overlap across disciplines: indication of looking at more than food
- Normative priorities in studying foodscapes: public health, social justice, environmental sustainability and
community food security
Different perspectives:
Health perspective:
- Primary focus on the influence of the food environment on public health and healthy eating
- Obesogenic environments
- Fruit and vegetable consumption
- Health inequality; are certain neighbourhoods have a more healthy environment than
others?
- These studies emphasize:
- Importance of space: how healthful is a food environment
- Food consumptions (instead of production distribution)
Social justice perspective:
- Exploration of social injustices that exist in the food system
- Spatial and social food inequalities are materializes through food deserts: Areas with limited availability of
and/or access to nutritious and healthy food
- Foodscapes as a lens to investigate (structural) spatial inequalities in food access
Environmental perspective:
- foodscapes as a lens for exploring environmental sustainability in the food system
- Helps to understand how changing social-ecological environments are linked to community food resilience
- Useful for a broad food system perspective
- One that is not limited to production or consumption
Foodscape – scale
Foodscapes has been operationalized into numerous spatial scales:
Macro view: City region foodscape to global foodscape ; production, purchasing, global hotspot of food
production, etc.
Meso View: Neighbourhood to city foodscape; where do you acquire food, what do you dislike about that
Micro view: Institutional or domestic foodscape (Kitchenscapes, tablescapes, platescapes) canteens in public
institutions, university canteen. Physical appearance of the food, how food is served, the amount of food that is
served, how, where and with whom meals are eaten and how and where meals are prepared and food is
stored.
Foodscapes; summary:
The spatial and material manifestation and shaping of food provisioning practices
- Ranging from producing to processing, trading, buying, sharing, cooking, and eating food
Foodscapes are reciprocally interlinked and nested
Interlinked foodscapes: Food can come from everywhere, long distant transport. Having packaged food.
Nested foodscapes: Relation between micro and meso. You could say that the consumption of fast food are
more prevalent where the image of the street is determined by MacDonald’s, Burger King etc.
two ideal types of foodscapes:
1. Agro-industrial foodscape: rooted in the agricultural modernization of productionist paradigm and is the
, outcome of a globalized corporate food regime.
2. Agro-ecological foodscape: rooted in a place-based integrated paradigm with food sovereignty as a leading
motto.
Foodscape studies (exploring and analyzing):
Foodscape as a tool to:
- Describe and understand our food provisioning environments
- Assess their potential impact on food provisioning practices:
- Food mapping (GIS, participatory mapping)
- Bodily cartography (not just mapping, but also recording your sensing/experiences)
- Consumption surveys (linked to other datasets)
- Food diaries
- Food geographies & biographies
- Multi-sited ethnographies
Foodscape mapping (Imaginary / Transformative)
- Foodscape as a critical transformation framework
- Focuses on the opportunities to challenge the existing ways of food production and consumption
- Aligned with utopias
- Create different future trajectories
- Food imaginaries / utopias
- Describing and visualizing potential food futures
- spatial design
Key words/summary:
- Utopia:
Critique, experimentation, process
- From the reading:
3 spheres of changing relations:
1. Spatial relations 2. Social relations 3. Values
- Foodscapes:
Relational food provisioning practices
Spatial and material food environment
From production to consumption
Different disciplinary perspectives
Different focus areas (health, environment, social and spatial inequality)
Tool for exploring understanding and analysis
Framework for change (utopian foodscapes)
How do these concepts contribute to thinking about food systems:
- utopia:
allows you to create an experimental situation
- Foodscapes
Reading the spatiality of food provisioning
location size and growth rate of cities was largely determined by the amount of food and energy that their rural
hinterland could produce.
4 concentric rings of agricultural productivity surround the market town:
1. Dairy farming and fruit and vegetable production close to the market town (beperkte houdbaarheid)
2. Forest providing timber and firewood for fuel and building materials (hout is zwaar en moeilijk te
Week 1
Les 1
Reading: The 15- minute city:
Moreno streeft ernaar de Franse hoofdstad Parijs te veranderen in een stad van nabijheid. Zijn concept van 15
minuten is voornamelijk ontwikkeld om de koolstofuitstoot in de stad te verminderen, waarbij onze steden niet
zo zijn opgedeeld in afzonderlijke zones voor wonen, werken en uitgaan, maar als mozaïeken van buurten
waarin aan bijna alle behoeften van de bewoners kan worden voldaan binnen 15 minuten lopen/fietsen/ov.
Hiermee wordt straatruimte vrijgemaakt die voorheen aan auto’s was gewijd, waardoor vervuiling wordt
verminderd en plaats wordt gemaakt voor tuinen, fietspaden en sport- en vrijetijdsvoorzieningen.
Andere innovaties door de toenemende zorgen over luchtvervuiling en klimaatverandering:
- Londen 2003; congestieheffing voor auto’s die het centrum binnenrijden
- Enorme uitbreidingen van openbaarvervoernetwerken in steden van Moskou tot Medellín
Rolland’s taak als stadscommissaris van 15 minuten omvat het coördineren van gerelateerde inspanningen van
verschillende afdelingen.
In Melbourne proberen ze 20 minuten buurten te creëren, maar om dit te realiseren zullen investeringen in het
OV cruciaal zijn. Het label van 20 minuten heeft vooral gediend als een nuttige steno om de doelstellingen van
de stad met bewoners en investeerders te communiceren. Trudeau hoopt dat initiatieven zoals het
huisvestingsfonds ervoor zullen zorgen dat het een diverse dwarsdoorsnede van de bevolking omvat.
Tegenargument: Mensen wonen al in een stad van 15 minuten, maar leggen grote afstanden af in een auto.
Doel van 15 minuten stad: De nuttige tijd die mensen kwijtzijn aan reizen terugkrijgen.
Lecture 1:
Advantages of using utopia, a tool to study food policy.
- It gives us the freedom to imagine.
- As critique of existing systems:
- Productive critique: put into question what exists
- Openness to diversity of ideas.
- As engagement with experimentation around the future of the food system:
- Move away from expecting things to be in a finished stated
- Food worlds are actively in the making
→ it keeps up open, optimistic.
- As a process
- Recognize time and difficulty in changing the status
- Political project to find new ways to talk about food
Summary:
Tool for:
- Critique, experimentation, process (no final end)
- link critique with solution pathways
- Allows for diversity; not one single way forward
- Explore the limits of what is thinkable or realistic
- Starts a dialogue about just food systems.
Pros: You can be aware of what you eat. You can live in a more healthy way.
- To overcome the intention-behaviour gap
, Cons: You can get obsessed by it.
- You can insert the wrong data (because you don’t want to face
the reality).
- you can enter social desirable data.
Pros:
- It can make eat healthier food more easy (you think you eat
unhealthy food (which you probably like) while you actually eat an
apple for example).
Cons:
- You don’t change your lifestyle.
You loose the perception with the real food.
pro :
- more sustainable
- Less waist
Con:
- only people who live near by can have access
- Does it give enough nutrients?
- Maybe it’s too dangerous? There are also
Foodscapes:
To be understood as an assembly two components:
1. Food 2. Landscape (the view/image and materiality of a scene)
To be defined as the reciprocal relationship between
1. Food provisioning practices (growing, procession, transporting, purchasing/acquiring, preparing, eating, get
rid of food waste 2. Landscape
,In other words: The landscapes created, reproduced or transformed through food provisioning practices as well
as the shaping of food practices through these landscapes.
Foodscapes – disciplines and focus:
- Foodscapes research mainly in health-related fields (health promotion, public health and nutrition) and
geography (cultural geography physical geography)
- But also in planning, sociology, anthropology, psychology, environmental studies and architecture
- Substantial overlap across disciplines: indication of looking at more than food
- Normative priorities in studying foodscapes: public health, social justice, environmental sustainability and
community food security
Different perspectives:
Health perspective:
- Primary focus on the influence of the food environment on public health and healthy eating
- Obesogenic environments
- Fruit and vegetable consumption
- Health inequality; are certain neighbourhoods have a more healthy environment than
others?
- These studies emphasize:
- Importance of space: how healthful is a food environment
- Food consumptions (instead of production distribution)
Social justice perspective:
- Exploration of social injustices that exist in the food system
- Spatial and social food inequalities are materializes through food deserts: Areas with limited availability of
and/or access to nutritious and healthy food
- Foodscapes as a lens to investigate (structural) spatial inequalities in food access
Environmental perspective:
- foodscapes as a lens for exploring environmental sustainability in the food system
- Helps to understand how changing social-ecological environments are linked to community food resilience
- Useful for a broad food system perspective
- One that is not limited to production or consumption
Foodscape – scale
Foodscapes has been operationalized into numerous spatial scales:
Macro view: City region foodscape to global foodscape ; production, purchasing, global hotspot of food
production, etc.
Meso View: Neighbourhood to city foodscape; where do you acquire food, what do you dislike about that
Micro view: Institutional or domestic foodscape (Kitchenscapes, tablescapes, platescapes) canteens in public
institutions, university canteen. Physical appearance of the food, how food is served, the amount of food that is
served, how, where and with whom meals are eaten and how and where meals are prepared and food is
stored.
Foodscapes; summary:
The spatial and material manifestation and shaping of food provisioning practices
- Ranging from producing to processing, trading, buying, sharing, cooking, and eating food
Foodscapes are reciprocally interlinked and nested
Interlinked foodscapes: Food can come from everywhere, long distant transport. Having packaged food.
Nested foodscapes: Relation between micro and meso. You could say that the consumption of fast food are
more prevalent where the image of the street is determined by MacDonald’s, Burger King etc.
two ideal types of foodscapes:
1. Agro-industrial foodscape: rooted in the agricultural modernization of productionist paradigm and is the
, outcome of a globalized corporate food regime.
2. Agro-ecological foodscape: rooted in a place-based integrated paradigm with food sovereignty as a leading
motto.
Foodscape studies (exploring and analyzing):
Foodscape as a tool to:
- Describe and understand our food provisioning environments
- Assess their potential impact on food provisioning practices:
- Food mapping (GIS, participatory mapping)
- Bodily cartography (not just mapping, but also recording your sensing/experiences)
- Consumption surveys (linked to other datasets)
- Food diaries
- Food geographies & biographies
- Multi-sited ethnographies
Foodscape mapping (Imaginary / Transformative)
- Foodscape as a critical transformation framework
- Focuses on the opportunities to challenge the existing ways of food production and consumption
- Aligned with utopias
- Create different future trajectories
- Food imaginaries / utopias
- Describing and visualizing potential food futures
- spatial design
Key words/summary:
- Utopia:
Critique, experimentation, process
- From the reading:
3 spheres of changing relations:
1. Spatial relations 2. Social relations 3. Values
- Foodscapes:
Relational food provisioning practices
Spatial and material food environment
From production to consumption
Different disciplinary perspectives
Different focus areas (health, environment, social and spatial inequality)
Tool for exploring understanding and analysis
Framework for change (utopian foodscapes)
How do these concepts contribute to thinking about food systems:
- utopia:
allows you to create an experimental situation
- Foodscapes
Reading the spatiality of food provisioning
location size and growth rate of cities was largely determined by the amount of food and energy that their rural
hinterland could produce.
4 concentric rings of agricultural productivity surround the market town:
1. Dairy farming and fruit and vegetable production close to the market town (beperkte houdbaarheid)
2. Forest providing timber and firewood for fuel and building materials (hout is zwaar en moeilijk te
