A Vision For Brighton
Regenerative Food Systems
Living systems thinking is at the heart of designing regenerative food ecosystems that work to end food poverty, chronic disease, and ecological destruction.
Centring our questions on an imperative of Health will enable us to navigate through complexity with the clear and constant aim of enabling conditions conducive to life.
Designing Regenerative Food Ecosystems for Brighton
In March 2020, witnessing a scene of frenzied panic-buying at a megasupermarket made me realise it was time to shop and eat differently. Walking past heaving carts piled high with ultraprocessed junk food – hoarded for survival in case of pandemic systems collapse — my incomprehension led to a complex systems mapping of Brighton’s Degenerative food system. I began to understand how people’s values and mindsets design the systems we live in, and how these systems in turn shape our lives. In this paper, I invite you to explore pathways of thinking and designing for Regenerative and just food ecosystems for Brighton.
Welcome to the simplicity and complexity of Food.
— Sarri Tapales, August 2022
Mapping a Shared Vision
Ultimately, the work of transforming food systems is about uncovering those mental models that either hinder or accelerate change.
How did we get to this place of overriding systems dysfunction? What needs to change?
To these questions, I summarise my findings in a Degenerative food systems mapping.
What could this change look like?
To answer this question, I capture collective insights and responses into a Regenerative food ecosystems mapping.
Silent Spring - The Future of Food and Farming
Silent Spring 60 years celebrates the legacies of Rachel Carson and the biodynamic farmers who informed the writing of her groundbreaking book. Silent Spring raised global awareness of the dangers of pesticides, leading to the modern environmental movement, Earth Day, the DDT ban that saved endangered species, and the creation of agencies for the protection of the environment and human health.
Talks, workshops and exhibitions will explore the significance of Rachel Carson’s enduring work in connection with regenerative agriculture and the future of UK food and farming..
Event in Sussex
23 September 2022
