Foodprint NYC is the first in a series of international conversations about food and the city. From a cluster analysis of bodega inventories to the cultural impact of the ice-box, and from food deserts to peak phosphorus, panelists will examine the hidden corsetry that gives shape to urban foodscapes, and collaboratively speculate on how to feed New York in the future. The free afternoon program will include designers, policy-makers, flavor scientists, culinary historians, food retailers, and others, for a wide-ranging discussion of New York’s food systems, past and present, as well as opportunities to transform our edible landscape through technology, architecture, legislation, and education.

Date: Saturday, February 27

Time: 1 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Location: Studio-X (180 Varick St., Suite 1610, New York, NY 10014)

Free and open to the public

Confirmed Speakers:

• Joel Berg: author, All You Can Eat: How Hungry is America; Executive Director, New York City Coalition Against Hunger
• Makalé Faber Cullen: cultural anthropologist; former Program Director, Slow Food USA; contributing author, Renewing America’s Food Traditions
• Stanley Fleishman: CEO, Jetro
• Thomas Forster: faculty, Food Studies Program, The New School; policy advisor, School Food FOCUS; co-chair, Food Systems Network of New York City
• Joseph Grima: Director, Storefront for Art and Architecture; co-architect, Landgrab City installation, 2009 SZ/HK Bi-City Biennale for Urbanism/Architecture
• William Grimes: New York Times restaurant critic (1999-2003); author, Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York
• Annie Hauck-Lawson; Associate Professor, Department of Health and Nutrition Sciences, Brooklyn College; President, Association for the Study of Food and Society; co-editor, Gastropolis: Food and New York City
• Natalie Jeremijenko: artist, scientist, designer; Director, xDesign Environmental Health Clinic, NYU
• Naa Oyo A. Kwate: Assistant Professor, Mailman School of Health, Columbia University

Schedule:

Zoning Diet (1:00 to 1:55 p.m.)

Culinary Cartography (2:00 to 2:55 p.m.)

Edible Archaeology (3:30 to 4:25 p.m.)

Feast, Famine, and Other Scenarios (4:30 to 5:25 p.m.)