Foodscapes 1

About this programme

This course is for people who is passionate about food and sustainable development, and want to understand the connection between food and landscape from booth an urban and rural perspective. The course is basen on that our cultural food choices affect the physical environment, this is illustrated through different themes, that provides knowledge about the connections between food studies and landscape architecture. Food is one of the most pressing sustainability issues today, and it is indispensable in our daily lives. How our food is produced, transported, sold and consumed has a strong connection to how our surrounding landscapes look and function. This applies to urban, peri urban and rural landscapes. To understand this connection and how cultural ideas about food and landscapes have developed throughout history makes a difference in the development of sustainable societies. Those who take this course will get a broad perspective on sustainable development, environmentally, economically, socially and culturally. The relationship between food and the surrounding landscapes are treated from many aspects and critically examined. Does shorter supply chains between producers and consumers contribute to a higher appreciation of food and its values and does the peri urban landscape benefit? After the course, the students will have learned the differences between different forms of production and how food choices can create added values or conflicting interests. The course is based on humans as thinking and cultural beings, whose actions shape and reshape the landscapes they l