Food Futures Archives – HKFoodWorks

#6 Diversity

Access to sufficient safe and nutritious food that meets the dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy...

05/04/2024

#5 Waste less

Finally, throwing away food is bad for the environment and a waste of the natural resources that went into its...

05/04/2024

#4 A varied diet

Eating a healthy and varied diet is better for our health as well as the planet. Overconsumption causes unnecessary strain...

05/04/2024

#3 Less sugar, Less Fat

Related to the above is the danger of consuming sugar in our drinks. Did you know a 500ml of lemon...

05/04/2024

#2 Real Food

So much of what we eat is ultra-processed– from the sliced white bread, luncheon meat to the cereal, biscuit and...

05/04/2024

#1 More plants, less animals

Meat production is resource intensive, and generates nearly 15% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions. Changing to a more plant-based...

05/04/2024

Canteen Food Future

In the brand-new Global Challenges course on sustainable eating, our transdisciplinary students came together to design canteen food futures....

05/04/2024

Heat Waves and Our Food System

Heat Waves are effects of climate change. Food System activities generate large amounts of GhG emissions and have a huge...

26/08/2022

COVID19 Price Hikes: call for food security in Hong Kong

Interview discussing Covid19 price hikes. I share my views on the vulnerability of our urban food system, the opportunity to...

10/02/2022

Our Dystopic Food System

Our dystopic food system produces both both hunger and excess, a logic so contradictory that seems only possible in dystopic...

17/02/2021

Rethinking living with urban agriculture

In every crisis there is an opportunity, and now is the time to rethink what living could mean if we...

11/08/2020

Hunger Crisis

COVID19 is deepening the hunger crisis. According to Oxfam’s latest report, 12,000 people per day will die from hunger caused...

17/07/2020

Lessons from Covid19 lockdown, Build Back Better

As the world slowly emerges from the COVID pandemic lockdown, many are wondering what lessons can be learnt from this...

23/06/2020

Live Like It’s Doomsday 我們日用的飲食, 怎樣交給我們？

Pushing my trolley around the supermarkets’ empty shelves a few months ago – I couldn’t help but replay the scene...

05/05/2020

Urban Resilience, local and seasonal

Sourcing local and seasonal has become the response to the disruptions seen in our food supply chain. More than just...

21/04/2020

Food shortage in time of COVID

The food shortage we experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic revealed the vulnerabilities of our food system. In Hong Kong, we...

02/04/2020

The New Asia

So proud to see Breadline featured alongside other innovative projects selected to represent the New Asia in Tatler’s launch issue....

09/03/2020

Breadline web app

Breadline is Hong Kong’s first crowdsourced food rescue web app that connects donors with volunteers and charities so surplus food...

29/02/2020

The Apocalyptic Feast

What would we eat after the apocalypse? What future foods would be available and in what forms? In this playful...

09/11/2019

A Sci-Fi Short about the Future of Food

Science fiction seems like a logical place to explore the future of food. How are we going to feed the...

30/09/2019

Topic: Food Futures