Talks Archives – HKFoodWorks

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

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

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

The Future of Food and the City: Security, Sustainability or Resilience?

Hong Kong and Singapore are often considered twin cities on the global stage – it is similar in terms of...

08/03/2019

Cultivating a better Hong Kong through Urban Farming

My view is that urban agriculture is not a thing of the past, many cities in the world are experimenting...

01/03/2019

Better Business Innovation Series

As part of the Better Business Innovation Series, the American and British Chamber of Commerce brought together key players in...

14/06/2018

City University Creative Media Colloquium

Speaking to a packed room of students at City University was a great way to kick start 2018! Introducing students...

16/01/2018

Hong Kong Academy

As part of the Interdisciplinary Unit of their IB curriculum, this group of Grade 7s from Hong Kong Academy spent...

04/12/2017

Consuming Nature

The Zurich University of the Arts hosted a talk series on the topic of Ecologies: Matters of Coexistence for their...

19/09/2017

Food’s Future Summit 2017

A one-day event that brought together practitioners and entrepreneurs who are keen to change the way we eat. My panel...

12/08/2017

Putting the Crowd to Work at MIT

This has been a long-awaited workshop. Taking place in the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston, this seminar...

03/04/2017

How Secure is Food? Tedx Wanchai 2016

An opportunity to speak to an audience of 1200 at the Academy of Performing Arts – the largest Tedx event...

29/10/2016

Curbing Food Waste with Technology

As part of the month long event aimed at using technology to tackle food waste in the F&B sector in...

22/07/2016

The Edible Wall

As part of the Knowledge Transfer Project “Greener Living – micro urban farming and turning waste into resource”, I started...

19/02/2014

In a Grain of Rice

I was invited to chair the session called Food for Thought at Asia Society’s event “In a grain of Rice:...

17/01/2014

Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture

“Lost Food: Food, Knowledge, Culture” was one of the earliest event I organised at Hong Kong Baptist University. I invited...

06/12/2012

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