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.