Course info

Description:
The aim of the course is to introduce and excercise theories and methods of the Living Food Lab and Foodscapes concepts. The course is a combination of lectures, field studies, conferences and seminars. The course will be executed together with UC Berkeley and CASFS, UC Santa Cruz. The venue will be Santa Cruz and San Francisco, CA. Field studies will be arranged to unfold the Foodscapes in different Bay area settings (School garden and school lunch communities, Edible school yards, CSA, etc) and course participants will have the opportunity to study other regional and local Foodscapes.
The Foodscapes approach is discussed and elaborated with the interdisciplinary focus on combining three research traditions to one new approach towards food related research issues and this understanding is extended to the institutional dynamic approach from Dolphijn (2005) and other theorists of Foodscapes.
The course is a combination of lectures and group development work in order to develop the Foodscape understanding and relate it to the attending Ph.d. students projects.

In order to obtain 5 ECTS participants must send in a paper (2000 words) with a description of their working field and the relation to food (and Foodscapes). This paper will be discussed and developed during the course. The papers will be read and commented and participants are expected to presented and discus their approach in a common session with focus on the relation to Foodscapes.

A second version of the paper must be filed after the field study, elaborating the Foodscapes in relation to each Ph.d. project.

Course is structured into four parts:

- lectures and exercises workshop at UCSC

- presentation of paper

- field studies in regional foodscapes in the Bay Area (with documentation)

- revised and qualified paper meant to be a concrete step to a published article.

Organizer: Professor Niels Heine Kristensen, AAU, email: nhk@plan.aau.dk

Lecturers: Professor Niels Heine Kristensen; Director John Fisher, Life Lab/CASFS; Associate Professor Deborah Lustig, ISSI/UC Berkeley; Assistant Professor Mette W Hansen, FINe/AAU; Director Morten Kromann Nielsen, UCL.

ECTS: 5

Course fee:Course fee: Participation is free of charge but transport and lodging will be on your own. Local guidance and transport will be coordinated. Support for transport and lodging can be applied for. For more information please contact Niels Heine Kristensen nhk@plan.aau.dk re budget, course content and detailled program.


Time: September 22 - 28, 2013 + preliminary seminar on 13 September at AAU CPH. (subject to changes)

Place: San Francisco, USA

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Number of seats: 8

Deadline: August 15, 2013