Carolyn Steel, foto: Stroom Den Haag
Book launch: 'De Hongerige Stad' by Carolyn Steel
Tuesday 15 March 2011, 5 pm
Location: Hogewal 1-9, The Hague
With a discussion between Carolyn Steel, Henk Ovink and Dick Veerman.
Moderator: Hans Rutten
Language: English
No reservations required
NAi Publishers and InnovatieNetwerk (an initiative of the Ministery of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation) will publish the Dutch translation of Carolyn Steel's 'Hungry City' (2008), the international bestseller which is an important source of inspiration for Stroom Den Haag's Foodprint program.
'Hungry City' by the British architect Carolyn Steel is a book about how cities eat. It's about the eternal engine driving civilisation. Feeding cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on us and our planet than anything else we do. Yet few of us in the West are conscious of the process. 'Hungry City' follows food's journey from land to city, through market and supermarket, kitchen and table, waste-dump and back again, to show how food affects all our lives, and impacts on the planet. The final chapter asks how we might use food to re-think cities in the future - to design them and their hinterlands better, and live in them better too.
Program
The book launch will feature a discussion between Carolyn Steel, Henk Ovink (director National Planning, ministry of Infrastructure and Environment) and Dick Veerman (founder and moderator of Foodlog.nl, the interactive opinion daily on food, health and agriculture. The topic of discussion is: how to feed our future cities. Moderator: Hans Rutten, staff member of Innovatienetwerk
"Hungry City is a sinister real-life sequel to Animal Farm with the plot turned upside down by time in ways even George Orwell could not have foreseen. " - The Observer
"Exuberant, provocative...her desire that we understand better and think more about our food, how much of it we waste, how much energy it consumes and how we dispose of it is - in the real sense of the word - vital." - David Aaronovitch, The Times