The School of Social Innovation is excited to launch the 2019 edition of the Social Innovation Summer School! This year’s focus is on food system transformation – how are groups and communities using the lens of the food system to unpack pressing social challenges and imagine our world differently through food? Join us May 13-18 for 6 packed days of discussion, guest speakers and field trips!
Food has long been a tool and site of societal transformation. Over the past 30 years, individuals and groups have sought increasingly innovative ways to address the social, environmental and economic challenges facing our food system, while also imagining and articulating the possibility for a new kind of food system. From food co-operatives and community gardens to peasant and farmworker movements, food centres, gleaning projects and food policy councils there is a wide diversity of approaches, visions and manifestations of food system transformation. Using the lens of the food system, we will explore various pathways and orientations to social change and social innovation, as well as specific projects, collaborations and organizations seeking to “do food differently” in the Ottawa region.
This is a week-long intensive course, cross-listed as both undergraduate and graduate. It can also be taken without credit for those interested in auditing or continuing education.
Full program: http://innovationsocialeusp.ca/en/evenement/summer-school-2019-cultivating-social-change-social-innovation-in-food-system-transformation
To register: https://ustpaul.ca/form-summer-school-in-social-innovation.php
Can’t commit to the full week? Two of the evening lectures are open to the public:
- Wednesday May 15th 7PM: Leticia Deawuo from Black Creek Community Farm on Food Justice, Equity and Urban Agriculture: https://www.facebook.com/events/1045923308924889/
- Thursday May 16th 7PM: Gabriel Alladhua from Justice for Migrant Workers, asks Are we eating injustice? https://www.facebook.com/events/1284098141740162/
For more information, email Professor Amanda Wilson awilson@ustpaul.ca
